The Tartaric way is used when we work with a plant that has abundant in alkaloid principles and we want to extract them.

First we should prepare the Canonical Tartar. The ideal is collect that of the barrels of wine, calcine it perfectly well and purifies it for crystallization. For this last operation consult the section of Alchemy of this homepage.

If we not having tartar of wine, we are going to prepare it, of the most natural possible way. The calcined tartar is not anything else that anhydrous Potassium Carbonate.

In order to prepare it we should use fibrous plants that have very little content of oil. The barks removed of the trees are ideal, or the fallen branches of the woody plants.

Take the vegetable material and dry it in the sun. Then cut it in small pieces and mill them very well in the mortar until fine powder. Put it in an iron plate and burn it until converts it in ash.

Proceed to the canonical whitening of the ash until white pure color.

Dissolve the salt in water-preheated 60o C and filter in hot on paper wathman 40 at vacuum. The solid residual, with everything and paper undergoes to fire, calcination and whitening. Then dissolve in water to 60oC and filter again at vacuum.

The filtrate concentrates to slow fire, evaporating to dryness.

Dissolve again the white obtained salt in water to 80oC and filter in hot at vacuum.

Then concentrate to slow fire evaporating until leaving 1/ 3 part of the original volume.

Rasp the walls of the glass of crystallization with a bar of glass in order to induce the crystallization and allow resting at room temperature until the formation of beautiful crystals of pure Potassium Carbonate.

Retire them and leave them dry in the sun.

For this process will gather 186.61 g of recrystalizad Potassium Carbonate.

Dissolve them in 186.61 ml of rainwater or in canonical dew, until transparent solution. Here we have our tartaric canonical menstruum.

Put this menstrum in an amber flask and add the plant that is going to process. As always this should be all right milled and done pap in the mortar. For this amount of menstrum add 50 g of pap.

If you use dry plant, the pap is made adding a little of water of rain or canonical dew at milling.

Move it with a bar of glass and subject it to digestion to 40º C for 72 hours,

Shaking up and down twice per day.

Filter on muslin and separate the vegetables parts, calcine them in order to obtain the canonical Salt.

The filtrate is placed in a funnel of separation and adds Spíritus vini rectificatus up to 2 inches for up of the original filtrate. Shake strongly and allow resting 4 hours. Shake again strongly and leaves for another 4 hours.

So until observe a green dark brilliant color and an oily layer in the alcoholic liquid (superior part of the funnel of separation).

Open the key of the funnel with much care and drain the watery alkaline part, separating the alcoholic part that contains our extract.

Don't discard the alkaline liquid. Concentrate it for slow fire and evaporate it to dryness.

Calcine the salt and crystallize again in order to recover the carbonate of potassium.

The alcoholic extract is placed in a small retort and is distilled 2/ 3 parts of their content, doing three cohobations. To the third cohobation add the Salt and volatilize, making it go by the pick of the retort and distilling gentle so that the vapors drag the residuals of the volatilized salt to the receiving flask.

Here the distilled and the volatilized Salt are putted into a pelican for circulation during 40 days at 40ºC.

At the end of this period will have a spagyric extract very strong, because the most of contains are the alkaloids of the plant, as well as flavones and cardio tonic aglicones, that is to say, the strongest active principles with a marvelous action.

This extract will owe take always diluted. Five drops in half glass (150 ml) of good white wine half hour before dinner. Once per day.

We recommended this technique in order to prepare the spagyrical extracts from Melissa officinalis, Chamomilla recutita, Camellia sinensis, Angelica spp., Achillea millefolium, Agrimonia spp., Commiphora molmol and for which they aim to rejuvenate and recover their power sexual Panax spp (ginseng) (cocktail 1: 1 with Melissa).