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We will no longer provide Extraction Services for Salvia Divinorum.

We began production and selling of the Tamisium Extractors and do not want to mix that business of selling the extractor with the business of extracting Salvia Divinorum.

We can and do extract from other plants that are legal to extract from and that are not a drug of concern as is listed by the DEA and FDA. We will provide extraction services but on a case by case request.

I apologize for any inconvenience but we must stay 100% lawful. Our lab is properly permitted and must adhere to strict guidelines to continue to operate.

The information left on this page is for review only.

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GreenLight
 

Salvia Divinorum (Diviner's Sage, Magic Mint, Sally D, ska Maria Pastora, Los Ojos de la Pastora, Eyes of the Shepherdess)

What is a Salvia divinorum extract?

A salvia extract is when the active ingredient in the material has been extracted out for the purpose of developing a concentration of the active properties.  For example:

If you take 9 grams of salvia divinorum leaf and extract the active property. Then you deposit the extracted properties back on to 1 gram of leaf then that 1 gram of leaf is now 10 times ( 9+1 ) stronger than it was. The leaf has been enhanced 10 times, or as it has come to be known as 10X.

When adding the extracted property back on to leaf material it is a common practice to add it on to ground leaves. Adding it back to ground leaves helps ensure that the leaf is enhanced evenly.

If you pour the extract back on to whole leaves then it would just drip off on to the bottom of the container. That is why extracts are always in the form of ground leaf. They look much like coffee grind. If you want to understand more about extracts then click here.

Salvia leaf and extracts are burned and that is why extractions or salvia are deposited back on to ground leaf.  Some other forms of extracts are tinctures ,pills, teas and even inhalants or snuff.  An extract is just an easier and more effective way to deliver a higher concentration of a given element.

We use to buy from an outside source and then we started manufacturing our own products. We did that for several years. As a matter of fact we became so busy that we started another company to handle the demands of the wholesale entheobotanical market. That company is run by professional people with degrees in that field and they work on far more than herbal extractions. They have since became a leader in the industry.

Tamie TM Herbals Butane Extractors

INFO AND FAQ

TAMISIUM BUTANE EXTRACTORS
A Tamisium Butane Extractor is the first commercially produced extractor designed to use a liquid hydrocarbon as the primary extraction solvent. Primarily N-Butane.
There is no other extractor like it in the world. patent pending 61/217,911

Butane is a non toxic, non polar solvent and will extract with great efficiency while preserving the integrity of the components of the plants. If other polarity solvents are required, other solvents can be added before the extraction process initiates using an accessory tank.

Custom made extractors range in capacity from 3 gallons (3 kilos) down to our new table top model Extractor that extracts oil and other chemicals from just over an ounce of plant material.

A Tamisium Butane Extractor is a totally closed system and the butane is never exposed to the air during extraction or recovery of the solvents used. It is a cold extraction process with minimal pressure and temperatures differentials ranging below freezing to about 110F if desired. Very easy to use and simple to understand. If you are using any other extraction process, This extractor will make your extraction business much easier, safer, and faster.

It has been said that no extraction solvent has ever captured the total essence and aroma of a flower in all it's delicacy as has been done when using the solvent butane. As a matter of fact, there are some essential oils, aromas and plant chemicals that can not be captured by any other means than by using butane as the primary solvent.
This extractor is not limited to essential oil extractions, perfumes or rare botanicals. It may be the most versatile extractor ever produced. The variety of botanicals and limitations of products you can extract with a Tamisium Butane Extractor has not been reached yet. It appears to have no boundaries. I have been using this extractor professionally for over 5 years and have just recently decided to sell it after a careful redesign with safety being the key motivating factor.

The Tamisium extraction process requires minimal pressure, and that pressure is created by the butane solvent/solvents used. It is a cold extraction process and mildy warm solvent recovery process at 110F maximum.
Although you can add heat and more pressure, in most, if not all cases, none is required and none is preferred. Freezing and below freezing extractions are possible as well.

Tamisium Extractors are a totally enclosed system made of high grade Stainless Steel, machined to high tolerances, in a variety of sizes to suit specific needs for low or high volume demands. Pressure ratings as high as 200 psi.
From table top units that will extract from 135 ml (1.2 ounces) of plant material , all the way up to full scale commercial production set up with a capacity to extract from 10 liters (6 pounds) of botanicals in just a matter of a few hours.

No matter the size chosen, you will produce twice the extract in a fraction of the time, with less than 1/2 the effort, less than 1/2 the start up cost, and less than 1/2 the production expense as other more expensive extractions systems and methods. No more broken glass, heating mantles, expensive pumps and expensive chillers,

There is no need to pump solvents from one chamber to another, The flow rate is automatic and adjustable.
There is no need to cool a condenser to produce volumes more solvent.
There is no need to create high pressures to reduce the volumes passed through a botanical.
There is no need to heat during the extraction process.
There is no need for high pressure pumps, vacuum pumps or heating mantles.
There is no risk of damaging botanical extractions with heat and pressure when using a Tamisium

This extractor will change the way extractions are performed by reducing startup cost and expanding your current inventory and improving the quality of your final product.

You will never want to use another Extractor or Extraction Process after you use a Tamisium Butane Extractor .

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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Learn about the Extraction Process using butane as a solvent

Is a Tamisium Extractor dangerous?
Any flammable solvent extractor is potentially dangerous. No matter if it is acetone, alcohol used in a soxhlet extractor with a heat source or butane in a cold tamisium extractor or typical fuel pump at any gas station.. Laboratory safety precautions are the same with this extractor as with most any others. The key point to note is that the Tamisium Butane Extractors are a totally closed system. The butane is never exposed to the air during the normal extraction or the normal recovery process.
The apparatus is a closed system and as long as the system is closed, you should not have any issues to deal with. Due to the fact that no pumps or flames are needed to extract or recover the solvent you will not have to deal with sparks or flames to ignite a solvent if an accident should occur. These extractors are not sold to be used in homes or non lab environments. They are sold to be used in laboratory settings by laboratory professionals and professional chemist.

Do I need a permit to operate a laboratory or Tamisium Extractor?
This varies from State to State. In Texas, I am required to have a permit for my other lab equipment but this extractor has not been around long enough to be on the permit apparatus list. This may change. I have notified them that I invented it, use it and now sell it.

Is Butane safe to use for consumable products?
Absolutely. Butane is non toxic and evaporates completely. It has been used for over 100 years for exactly that reason. You can use it to extract topical and internal medicine, perfumes and oils. Especially oils. It is the holy grail of organic solvents and really shines with aromatic fragrances and oils.

Is Butane harmful or toxic?
Butane is non toxic and evaporates completely after extraction. It boils at 32 degrees F and will rapidly disappear after being exposed to 80F room temperature.

What is the polarity of butane?
Butane (C4H10) has no polar groups.
Butane is NON POLAR all the way, which means you can use Butane as the only solvent if the chemical you want to extract is non polar as well. If not, then you will have to add another solvent to the butane before extracting. In regards to Legal Medical Marijuana extractions, Butane alone is all that is required.
Butane is composed only of carbon and hydrogen. It is nonpolar. It has no net ionic charge.
Polar molecules can dissolve polar molecules and nonpolar molecules can dissolve nonpolar molecules, but they don't mix well together and will separate into two layers in a separatory funnel. The closer you can get the polarity to match up, the more efficient the extraction process will be and the lower volume of solvent that will be required. If you want to separate them during the cleaning process, you will need the polarity to be opposite.

How do you know which solvents to use if butane is not enough?
Solvent choice is determined by two factors. Chemical Saturation Point, of a chemical in a given solvent, and Chemical Polarity Matching of the solvent and the chemical being extracted.

Chemical Saturation point is the point at which a solvent will no longer dissolve a chemical such as sugar and water. You will have to exceed that point of volume of the solvent.
You will need to know how much chemical resides in the plant you are extracting from and you will need to know how much solvent is required to dissolve all that chemical and extract it from the plant. You will want to double that volume of the solvent or quadruple it if possible.

Salvinorin A for example requires 100 ml of Acetone to dissolve roughly 1.2 grams of Salvinorin A safely.
I personally use at least 2500 milliliters of acetone to extract up to 8 grams of salvinorin A from 2.5 kilos of salvia divinorum leaf material. I may only be required to use 800 - 1000 ml but that is the saturation point and I want to exceed that.
In addition, I have a 4 liter separatory funnel for cleaning the extract on the next step. I would have to add more acetone for cleaning. So why not add it in before extracting and make a completely saturated extraction.

Solvent Chemical Polarity matching is something you will just have to figure out with each plant material you extract from or look in an index or reference source such as the merck index or type in polarity-name of chemical on the internet and find it there.

Is Butane the only solvent needed for a complete extraction?
Sometimes, to perform a complete extraction of an herb or plant, you will need a small amount of one or more other solvents such as alcohol or acetone. This is to be added to the butane before you begin the extraction process. This is the remarkable feature of using butane. Because you can add these other solvents in a variety of combinations, the possible plants you can extract from is virtually unlimited. And you can extract several chemicals from the same plant in one extraction or isolate the extraction to one chemical in most cases.

How efficient is butane as a solvent?
After we built our first original prototype, before placing any plant material inside the unit, we performed an extraction to clean it out .. Using 99% pure butane during the extraction process, we extracted out a half cup of oil from the pores of the the stainless steel extractor alone.

Extraction and Solvent Recovery Labor Time

• Total time for set up and extract - less than 3 hours, depending upon the size of the column
• Actual total extraction labor time - under 30 minutes
• Actual solvent recovery times - Varies, based on the temperature of warming and cooling offered for recovery. Ranges from 1-3 hours per gallon recovered.
  As a general rule, recovery time takes 2 hours per gallon of butane.
• Actual total solvent recovery labor time - under 10 minutes

Please remember that most solvents are flammable. When opening and closing any of the extractors, please do so in a well ventilated, spark free environment. The smaller units can be taken outside. Know the properties of the solvents being used for any process of any extraction with any apparatus
 

If you have any questions that you think this site should address then please let me know about it.  ken@GreenLightSalviaExtracts.com

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