Shelf-Life of Prepared Materials

[muanah]

Greetings to all, 

After a major ‘Swedish Death Cleaning’ of a brother-of-a-friend-of-a-cousin’s home, living in a country where these things are permissible, a small forgotten apothecary has been found. We wonder if the efficacy & viability of these items will have been be maintained after 10+ years.

I’m suggesting ‘probably not’, but would love to know what others think.

When ‘jar’ is mentioned, this refers to those relatively airtight Moconna style coffee jars,

..... Trichocereus sp. (powdered) – stored in a ziplock bag

..... Salvia sp. (10x extract to coarse leaf material) – stored in ziplock bags, which are also in a jar

..... Mitragyna sp./Kratom (powdered) – stored in a jar.

..... South American ‘Art Supplies’ (concentrate) – stored in a ziplock bag, and has dehydrated to the point where it has the firmness and texture of a thin ‘fruit rollup’ snack. There’s a 12 year old post about this item on the forum, so I won’t name the specific material, but you can likely guess.

..... Sceletium sp (powdered & coarse plant material) stored in jar.

..... Nymphaea sp./Blue Lotus (coarse flower material). Stored in a ziplock bag

..... A moderate qty of brown seeds – I don’t expect a comment on this, as it’s a random description that I’ll have to research and ID. It is suspected to be an MAO inhibitor. Might be a post for another time when a photo is taken of them.

So what does everyone think? Are these items destined for the trash can, or brought ‘to the front of the shelf’ for renewed consideration ?


 

[fyzygy]

Kratom degrades quickly, in a matter of months after leaf is harvested. 

[muanah]

On 11/10/2024 at 7:08 PM, fyzygy said:

Kratom degrades quickly, in a matter of months after leaf is harvested. 

Thanks for your response. Kept in an air-tight jar (do you know the Moconna coffee type) - it has a plastic 'bung' under the glass lid, but it's my belief that nothing is truly air-tight, and a decade is a long long time. Plus it's finely powdered, so the surface area is thousands of times greater than raw leaf. 

I guess this one's destined for the trash. 

Any thoughts on the Salvia & also the Aya reduction ? It will be easy enough to 'analyze' the Salvia, which might be done tomorrow. but the Aya requires more commitment.

 

[withdrawl clinic]

temperatur is the factor, frozen = good, room temp = bad