A strange table (comparison of what gets extracted by different solvents)

[verticity]

Carbon tetrachloride FTW

 

[Palmetto]

I immediately closed off the doors to the lab and called the guys in the funny suits to come clean up the mess. It ate right through the floor material.

Oops. You mean you had everyone who has passed out from the chloroform carried out on stretchers...?

 

[verticity]

I immediately closed off the doors to the lab and called the guys in the funny suits to come clean up the mess. It ate right through the floor material.

I hate when that happens...

 

[ThePiper]

Is it saying that traditional preparation yields no methysticin!?

 

[verticity]

Is it saying that traditional preparation yields no methysticin!?

The study by Xuan is saying that. However I think the results of that paper are questionable, and are contradicted by other results. In particular, @Deleted User has measured kavalactone profiles of instant kava (which is essentially dehydrated traditional prep) using HPLC, and found that KL levels are the same as kava powder (including methysticin levels).
Ref: http://kavaforums.com/forum/threads...solved-maybe-for-me-at-least.4077/#post-45845

 

[Zac Imiola (Herbalist)]

Interesting


Mmm yess.