Methanol-based extraction of psychoactive alkaloids from fungus

A process for forming an extract with a specified concentration of psychoactive alkaloids from a dried, raw, psychedelic fungus comprising the steps of:

• soaking a biomass of the dried, raw psychedelic fungus in a solvent comprising methanol in order to dissolve the psychoactive alkaloids in the solvent;
• filtering an undissolved portion of the biomass from the solvent;
• evaporating the solvent sufficiently to remove the methanol completely, leaving a concentrated slurry or a residue that is converted to the concentrated slurry by adding water thereto;
• measuring a psychoactive alkaloid content in the concentrated slurry;
• measuring a dry mass content in the concentrated slurry;
• using the psychoactive alkaloid content, the dry mass content and the specified concentration to determine a quantity of a carrier to add to the concentrated slurry in order to obtain the specified concentration of the psychoactive alkaloids in the extract;
• standardizing the concentrated slurry by adding thereto the quantity of the carrier;
• and
• drying the concentrated slurry to result in the extract with the specified concentration of the psychoactive alkaloids.