magic mushrooms to powder form?

[kahaokamoku]

I have read it was done hundreds of years ago.

How does one extract psilocybin from the mushrooms and get it into powder form?

[pantalone]

Dry the mushrooms.
This important step is most likely to cause the greatest loss of yield depending on how it is done. Crush or grind the dried carpophores or mycelium to a powder.
Shake and allow to stand (e.g. 30 mins) in chloroform. Use maybe twice the dry weight in solvents at every step, or enough to well cover the powder.
Filter and discard the chloroform.
Shake the reidue and allow to stand with acetone.
Filter and discard the acetone.
Shake residue and allow to stand with methanol.
Filter.
Shake residue and allow to stand with methanol.
Filter.
Shake residue and allow to stand with methanol.
Filter.
Discard residue.
Combine methanol extracts.
Evaporate methanol to dryness, preferably in a vacuum, although low heat will do.

[kahaokamoku]

you.

[pantalone]

The good stuff in plants - caffeine, nicotine, opium, cocaine - are all alkaloids. So the extraction process is going to be fundamentally similar in method, if not in exact directions.

Natural LSD (ergot fungus) is also an alkaloid. That's why we call it acid.