Hello, and welcome back to the channel. The topic of today's video will be about a unique piece of lab equipment known as the Soxilic Tractor. The Soxilic Tractor was invented by a German agricultural scientist by the name of Franz von Soxilic in 1879. In today's demonstration, we will produce a tincture using the Soxilic Tractor, some ethanol, and some wild turkey tail mushrooms. The materials required for today's demonstration will be 100% or 95% ethanol, an extraction medium, and of course the Soxilic Tractor. To begin, I added 150-minute liters of an hydrous ethanol to a flat bottom flask. Next, I attached the Soxilic Tractor. I then insert a cotton ball into the bottom to prevent the extractor from clogging. Before we fill the extractor, it is essential that we process our medium. We are going to want a coarse chop or a fine powder. As the finer the material is, the higher the likelihood of it clogging the extractor. Once satisfied with the results, the material is then added to the Soxilic Tractor. Once I insert an adapter for the condenser, then I attach the condenser. I then fix both of the water feed lines. Once the water pump is turned on, then stirring and heating is turned on. The temperature will be dependent on which solvent you use. After about 15 minutes or so, the first extraction cycle was complete. As seen here, once the solvent level reaches a certain point, everything is very aggressively drained and the whole cycle repeats. Now, how a Soxilic Tractor works is actually quite simple. As your solvent is boiling, the hot solvent will travel up the arm located on the right side. Go up the condenser, recondense, drop over the extraction medium, fill up the chamber, then the chamber drains and the whole cycle repeats. After about 6 hours of extraction, I then set up for a vacuum distillation. I chose vacuum over simple distillation because I was not sure if any of the compounds within the mushrooms were temperature sensitive and I did not want to destroy any of the compounds. I then collected the majority of the remaining ethanol until I was left with approximately 30 to 45 milliliters. Then I let the flask cool off. Then the remaining contents was transferred to an amber glass bottle and kept in the cool, dark place. If you have any suggestions for a future video, please leave them in the comments below. Also, please don't forget to like, subscribe and share. Thank you.