Quote Originally Posted by jsn9333
First, the background, then the question.

I have some ground up bud soaking in 190 proof grain alcohol right now. Been soaking 20 days. I'm going to let it go 10 more days, then start evaporating off the alcohol so I'm left with mostly the canna-oil. I'm going to heat the tincture very slowly, safely, and carefully to about 170 degrees and let the alcohol boil off.

Okay, here's the question. I want to be able to take this tincture under my tongue. However, the alcohol is *very* strong and can burn. I don't want to evaporate all the alcohol off to make sure I don't burn the oil, so I'm just going to evaporate most of it. My question is this:

If I add water to what is left of the tinture so that it dilutes the remaining alcohol, will adding water to the canna-oil harm the tincture? In other words, if I just put the oil itself under my tounge, would that be "stronger" than if I added a few tablespoons of water and swished it around in my mouth, let it soak under my tongue, etc. and swallowed it. I just want to make sure I don't ruin my 30 days worth of work. This is my first time making a tincture.

Thanks and Peace!



P.S. - note to moderators since I know this place gets legalistic about certain drugs... I'm not *drinking* the alcohol, I'm only using it to extract the medical compounds from the cannabis.
I've made 190 proof tinctures that you could use sublingually, but you have to boil off most of the alcohol so that it is no longer 190 proof, to not burn your mouth.

The oral medications that I've made by the process that you describe, however had a deep and pervasive greeeen taste, with a bitter after taste, and weren't popular except diluted in other drinks.

If you will use an oil bath and bump your temperature up to ~ 240F things will go a bit faster and you will drive off some of the green tasting turpeens, as well as break down the chloraphyl.

You also still have water to drive off as well, from atmospheric humidity, the 10% Everclear that wasn't alcohol, and the residual plant moisture that the alcohol extracted, along with the water soluble constituets like chloraphyll.

The cold extraction method using non polar alcohol also extracts plant waxes and vegetable oils, so a tastier and more potent cold method is to extract from hash or kief, or to use QWISO techniques.

You can then remove the solvent and add just enough coconut oil or flavoring oil to the cananbis oil to keep it liquid, which makes an excellent sublingual.

I take most of my meds either sublingually or topically and for sublingual application, for each 10 grams of pure cannabis oil, I add .7 grams each of cinnamon bark oil, cinnamon leaf oil, and liquid myrrh gum, as well as 2 grams of cinnamon candy flavoring oil.

It works through a dropper and takes three drops for the high tolerance patients testing it. One drop was adequate for the average low tolerance patient, and the rest were scattered in the middle.

The good news is that patients have uniformly agreed that it is both tasty and efficacious.

GW
Graywolf Reviewed by Graywolf on . Question about the tincture I'm making First, the background, then the question. I have some ground up bud soaking in 190 proof grain alcohol right now. Been soaking 20 days. I'm going to let it go 10 more days, then start evaporating off the alcohol so I'm left with mostly the canna-oil. I'm going to heat the tincture very slowly, safely, and carefully to about 170 degrees and let the alcohol boil off. Okay, here's the question. I want to be able to take this tincture under my tongue. However, the alcohol is *very* Rating: 5