Increasing potency of pills?
Just a suggestion, when I make my capsules put a few drops of liquid Lecithin in them. You can purchase it at most health food stores.
And now you ask why Lecithin? Here is what Lecithin does:
THC is soluble in fat. Only water soluble substances can pass the intestine membrane. Fat is itself not water soluble because it is like THC uncharged.
So how does fat pass the intestine membrane? Fat absorption requires substances with a dipole character to build up vehicles which can connect at the outer surface with water (charged side) and at the inner surface with the fat and the THC (uncharged side). This vehicles are called micells and consists of bilesalts (dipole), phospholipids (dipole), fatty acids (uncharged) and THC
(uncharged).
Lecithin contains much of these phospholipids!!
So Lecithin works in two ways: it emulsifies fat but more important i think is the ability of Lecithin to build up micells.
I have noticed a great increase of the potency of my capsule, I hope this helps.
Increasing potency of pills?
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Originally Posted by Graywolf
Using a concentrate allows me to directly super saturate whatever oil I use and eliminates some of the undesirable greeeeeeeeen plant flavors, some of which are upsetting to my stomach.
I have however also directly infused oil using bubble hash or kief to good effect and sidestepped undesirable favors and stomach upset.
Good advice.
It sounds like your using a high grade/high potency source material, perhaps you might want to look at adding a THC pre-extraction step into your process in order to maximise the overall strength of each capsule.
Isolate the THC into a honey oil (or budder) prior to infusion with the coconut oil to increase the percentage absorption per capsule (you'll also end up with a 'cleaner' product. i.e. no suspended plant material).
I'd also try to convince you to adopt the slow cooker method rather than a 'double broiler', and get the temp over 212F (but under 280).
The type of 'one hitter' capsules your aiming at are do-able (tolerance permitting), I have quite a few myself for personal use, using the above ingredients and processes.
Good luck and keep going!
Flameon
Increasing potency of pills?
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Originally Posted by Flameon
Good advice.
It sounds like your using a high grade/high potency source material, perhaps you might want to look at adding a THC pre-extraction step into your process in order to maximise the overall strength of each capsule.
Isolate the THC into a honey oil (or budder) prior to infusion with the coconut oil to increase the percentage absorption per capsule (you'll also end up with a 'cleaner' product. i.e. no suspended plant material).
I'd also try to convince you to adopt the slow cooker method rather than a 'double broiler', and get the temp over 212F (but under 280).
The type of 'one hitter' capsules your aiming at are do-able (tolerance permitting), I have quite a few myself for personal use, using the above ingredients and processes.
Good luck and keep going!
Flameon
Thanks for the good thoughts!
I??m confused though, but that isn??t unusual. Please bear with my slowness.
I am using pure decarboxylated honey oil and coconut oil in my formula.
As I read your suggestion, that is what you are recommending.
Where did I misunderstand you and what additional steps are you actually suggesting that I am missing?
Define slow cooker at 212/280F. I use a 240F oil bath as opposed to a ??broiler?. Is your use of the word broiler a typo or did I not adequately explain my process?
The type of one hitter capsule I am aiming at is not only doable bro; it is long past a fait accompli and works as reported above.
Not by just my own testing, but a volunteer test panel ranging from flyweight to heavy tolerance, and a range of maladies.
What we are still experimenting with, is how to make it even better without adding any more cannabis oil. So far I have been successful with making it happen faster, but not necessarily more intense, by adding the three holy anointing oil ingredients, cinnamon bark and leaf oil, and myrrh, and some promise from ginger and piperine, but no panel testing.
Since I can see that you have put a great deal of thought into the subject, do you have any insight as to what else we might try as an enhancer replacing part of the inert corn starch?
GW
Increasing potency of pills?
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Originally Posted by WashougalWonder
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I have been having to supplement with smoking. I just had a stent placed in my heart and I really should not smoke at all. I will miss the sudden surges, but it was godawful bad having heart pain.
Get a vaporizer bro.. I had a heart attack at 39 and stopped smoking then...I bought a volcano lasted me 5 yrs... then bought another 1 ....recently got a Iolite portable vape:thumbsup:
Vaporizers reduce carsonages & toxins by 80%:hippy:
Increasing potency of pills?
Good point, vaporizing does reduce lung and bronchial irritation and provides a more instant effect!
It does not produce the same relief as ingestion however and I use it as a supplement, as opposed to the main event, which is a sublingual oil concotion or a cannacap.
It is all good, it just depends on the effect that you are after.
Increasing potency of pills?
heres a thought but just make oil or some kinda concentrate like bubble, personaly oil is best for ingestion and use that. no heat, no extract just pure.
look up BHO on you tube and learn to be safe with Butane and use only at least 5 times refined tane, no cheep stuff, lots of dangers in the cheep stuff.
I think this is what you were going for the whole time? the Cure?
