dyplow

Good grief no. I’m way too old to be a hippie. I’m just wanting to do a process-of-elimination to see what fraction might be killing pets in Colorado. (And I think you might be mistaking this genus for the illegal & hallucinogenic Psilocybe.)

I am researching the toxicology of the poisonous mushroom Amanita muscaria and looking for the cleanest simplest method to eliminate or neutralize the alkaloid muscarine from an extract. There are other alkaloids in this species (like muscimol), but I want to leave them intact. Since muscarine has been studied for a very long time, many procedures exist for extracting, isolating, degrading, oxidizing, and precipitating it. I am only wondering which method(s) might work best for yielding an extract free of active muscarine (and free of any toxic chemical reagents). The procedure may extract the muscarine, or convert it into a non-active form. Being a novice, my limited knowledge guesses that methods using gold-chloride or silver-oxide might be fairly simple and non-toxic, but I really need to defer to the expertise present here. I can supply more information about muscarine if needed. thanks