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First thing I do when we pull a plant is clean the roots and let them dry. Wet roots will mold so if you can’t process them right away, leave them in the dirt or in a paper bag in a dry place.
Cannabis roots are not water solvable, they do infuse well into olive or coconut oil. They can be cooked whole or ground up, 4 hours in a crock pot on low.
The roots of the cannabis plant have been used since ancient times as a diuretic and to stop hemorrhaging (especially during child birth).
- Dried and ground into a paste (poultice) to reduce pain and swelling of bruises or broken bones.
- Boiled as a tea can relieve joint pain and gout.
- Roots decocted in coconut oil, a tablespoon in the morning and another at night has been known to reduce arthritis pain when taken daily.
- Add beeswax to the root oil and make a salve that has incredible skin healing properties.
The roots contain the alkaloids cannabisativine, isocannabisativine, anhydroccabisativine, piperidine and pyrrolidine. The latter two act as a stimulant, bronchidilatory (dilating bronchial tubes) and a sedative.
The terpens found in roots are friedelin, epifriedlin, ß-sitosterol, carvone and dihydrocavone which are anti oxidents and have properties known to protect the liver.
Also found in the roots is pentacyclic triterpene ketones. These are antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and target cancer cells and causes them to die.
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Fresh fan leaves along with trim and buds can be used for juicing. At harvest is the best time to harvest for juicing. Leaves can be stored in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to 10 days. Freezing leaves is not recommended, but freezing the undiluted juice works well. It takes 25 to 30 leaves, a fresh bud, and 1 cup of water each day to juice. Freeze the undiluted juice in ice cube trays to keep all the goodies fresh and convenient for daily juicing.
It is also important to use a masticating juicer, household blenders and food processors create heat and will start to activate the cannabinoids.
Raw cannabis has a bitter taste, so mixing with fruits and vegetables will help the palate.
There is no psychoactivity when you juice, but you get all the cannabinoids in their acid form where they get processed by the liver and on to your endocannaninoid system.
Smaller stems, popcorn buds and trim can be processed with a variety of methods. These are usually not ‘
fresh‘ but have dried with your smoking buds. After the final trim as your buds go on to the curing process, you can get a lot of medicine out of this material.
Since this material has been dried, a small amount of the cannabinoids have converted from their acid form. Further heating while infusing into oils or fats, can decarb it a little more (although not a full decarb), which may give some euphoric effects to a person with low tolerance when ingested.
The synergy of all the cannabinoids in their various stages of decarbing, may give us the best medicine.
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Trim and stems can be used instead of buds in any procedure.
Trim and stems can be decarbed for medical and psychoactive effects.
By not decarbing trim and stems there is no high while having medical benefits.
You can make an oil by infusing stems and trim in avocado oil and coconut oil. I have found that a mixture of the 2 oils makes it taste better. Avocado oil is a very healthy fat, good for your liver, is a good source of vitamin E.
This canna oil has been reported to ease symptoms of psoriasis
from the inside out, joint pain and arthritis.
Usually taken 2 to 3 times a day, one Tablespoon at a time or you can cook with it!
Grandma Roody’s Canna Oil
- Place stems and trim in a slow cooker/crock pot
- Add equal amounts of coconut oil and avocado oils to completely cover your material.
- Turn crock pot on low. Do Not cover.
- Cook for 4 hours
- Cool then strain
Stem and trim oil infusions make nice topical salves when beeswax is melted with it. I add cocoa butter for a nice chocolate coconut smell and absorbing texture.
Stem and trim can also be infused with volatile solvents. For the purposes of this article, the methods will be safe solvents that you can do at home with every day kitchen items to make your own medicine.
- Oils – Unprocessed Coconut oil, MCT oil (Fractionated Coconut oil), Avocado oil, Olive oil each have health benefits and extracts cannabinoids along with waxes, lipids and chlorophyll.
- Fats – Butter, Ghee (clarified butter), and Milk extracts make easy medibles.
- Glycerin – Vegetable glycerin and Propylene glycol extracts make tinctures and e-juice for vaping
- Ethanol – Food grade grain alcohol for extracts or tinctures. These QWET (Quick Wash Ethanol) extractions can be purged down to shatter/wax or evaporated down to an RSO like oil.
- Dry Ice – Produces high quality hash with no solvent residue.Other solvents such as isoproyl alcohol, butane, and others that are not considered food grade are not recommended for medical patients to use in the home setting. Unless the right equipment and safety measures are used. Since we are making medicine in our homes for someone who is sick, without proper purging equipment toxins may be left in the medicine. We don’t want to harm, while trying to heal.
Solvent-less extracts use heat and pressure.
Solvent-less extracts can even be done at home using a hair straightener.
Hope this helps
