29-10-2019, 15:22
(29-10-2019, 14:34)bosekk Wrote: As a thin girl it's really hard to gain volume...
Wikipedia had this to say about extracting the actives:
Quote:The sarsasapogenin saponin can be extracted from the dried powdered root with 95% ethanol. After removal of the fat from the resulting gum, the glycosidic linkage is hydrolyzed with hydrochloric acid (approx. 2 M) and the resulting crude steroid is recrystallized from anhydrous acetone. The yield of pure sarsasapogenin from 225 kg of Smilax root is reported to be about 450 grams.