or powdered?
> > When I first started extracting Salvia divinorum leaf with Acetone I > found that it didn’t seem to make any difference whether the leaf was > whole, crushed or even finely powdered, regardless I found that > salvinorin was extracted from leaf from whole to finely powdered with > the same efficiency. Since Acetone worked so well with whole or > crushed leaf my assumption was that most, if not all of the salvinorin > was coating the outside of the leaf instead of inside the leaf, either > that, or Acetone was somehow able to efficiently draw the salvinorin > out of the interior leaf membranes. Daniel Siebert recently published > a paper confirming my belief that salvinorin is concentrated on the > outside of the leaf, because of this it isn’t necessary to powder the > leaf to be able to efficiently extract salvinorin using any solvent > which salvinorin can be dissolved into, but I like to either finely > crush the leaf or powder it to reduce the volume of solvent needed to > comple
