Treating Migraines & Insomnia - A Success Story

My wife has suffered from frequent/severe migraine headaches and persistent insomnia for the past two decades. I have seen how ineffective, hard-to-obtain in adequate quantities, and full of side effects and/or withdrawal symptoms the traditional "prescription" medications have been for her. After being prompted to watch and read a few things about medical marijuana by a close family member, I learned a lot about it and realized that it might prove to be much better than these "medicines" made with chemicals, by man, in a laboratory.

I grew Northern Lights (Seedsman seeds) and ended up getting down to one "best" female plant under a 400W MH, then HPS, in a bubble bucket, using GH Flora nutrients along with Cal-Mag, in a 39" x 39" x 78" grow tent, and using a SCROG screen. The yield was 200g (7 oz) from that one plant on this first grow. Upon getting it dried and cured, she found that using some of it in a MFLB vaporizer gave her relief from even the worst headache pretty much immediately (once she figured out how much to dose with). She was leery of using too much after finding out that a lot of it made her vomit initially, but it still provided good pain relief. She says it helps her as good as (or better) than the traditional pain meds have in the past (Lortab, etc). She loves the fact that it starts having an effect almost immediately. Plus she does not have to worry about "running out" and having to get the Dr. to call in more when she has more headaches than average and runs out (as would often happen with the Lortab and muscle relaxers). Then there would be the occasional migraine that her prescription medications would not even handle, necessitating a trip to the Dr. (or ER if after hours or on the weekend) to get a shot of pain medicine that would pretty much knock her out. So far, there have been no headaches that her herbal medicine would not handle.

So her insomnia was what remained to be treated. For quite a while, she has been taking Ambien to help her sleep. But the Ambien got to where it would not work except for maybe a 3-4 hour period. Then she would wake up and, desperate to get more sleep, take a second dose (which her neurologist assured her was ok). That only made her run out halfway through the month, when she would then start having withdrawal, which included not only insomnia (and resulting worse headaches), but also pronounced tremors in her hands to the point that she would avoid going out in public. I found a recipe for making capsules from cannabis, coconut oil, and lecithin (BadKittySmiles' tutorial on grasscity.com) and made some a few days ago. She found that 3 capsules would give her a half-night of sleep, then would wake and take 3 more (coming in very handy as she was out of Ambien). Then last night I told her she should just go ahead and take 5 or 6 capsules to see if she got a longer, cumulative effect. She took 5 capsules and had the first full 8-hour night of sleep that she has had in years (she cannot even remember the last time she slept all night without interruption). She was even able to go right back to sleep after waking for a bathroom trip in the middle of the night (her only interruption) and that usually never happens. We are both thrilled that something so simple and natural can provide relief from the two things that have held her captive for over twenty years.

Thank God for this wonderful plant!

Good for the both of you! And Ambien has the noted bad effect of tremula after prolonged use so being able to get off it is an excellent move.

DrMJ, thanks so much for sharing that! I too get really bad headaches (though it is mostly in my neck, most likely caused by stress) and had a horrible time sleeping all night before I started smoking. Not only does it help me sleep but that 15 minutes or so before I fall asleep, are so sweet...lots of good thoughts.

I got my card for chronic insomnia, years later I found out that Melatonin and Chelated Magnesium are wayyy better than weed for getting a good sleep. They both increase REM sleep, while cannabis decreases it.

I got my card for chronic insomnia, years later I found out that Melatonin and Chelated Magnesium are wayyy better than weed for getting a good sleep. They both increase REM sleep, while cannabis decreases it.

That may be the case for some people (or even most people, I don't really know). But over the past two decades my wife has tried everything under the sun for sleep, both OTC and prescription, and has never had anything work like the cannabis capsules I make her. Melatonin and magnesium were like taking Tic-Tacs to her. I will say that she does not just smoke or vaporize it though (getting mostly THC). She takes capsules that I make by processing the medicine in coconut oil with lecithin on with low heat (220F) for about 6 hours, thus degrading most of the THC and producing lots more CBN (which relieves pain, helps sleep, and relaxes muscles). This method (and many more) can be seen in the excellent thread about making edibles that "BadKittySmiles" has on this forum. That is one of the beauties of this wonderful plant, it can be "bent" into helping almost anything, altering the way/time it is grown, processed, and used. I don't see how anyone who really looks at the evidence could miss seeing this plant is one of the best gifts that God blessed us with when he created it. And I say that as someone who does not use it, but is completely sold on it from the benefits I have seen for my wife.

AN UPDATE -
A text (from yesterday) from my wife that shows how much this has helped her -

"I love you so much and I miss you and I feel so good and I'm so extra happy about my life now. Thanks to you. You saved my life."

Of course I cannot take credit for something that I only discovered, so I replied -

"That's sweet, but all I did was realize the wonder of something God made for mankind. HE saved your life."


Over the past month it has been the same story. She says something every couple of days about feeling so much better now, having energy to do things she never used to have the energy to do, and having so fewer headaches now (and that are less severe). Some nights she sleeps 10 hours, but usually always at least 7 or 8.

She had an episode of relapse a couple weeks ago (with the Ambien). She was going to keep getting it refilled for at least a couple months or so. She felt like it would make her feel more secure to kind of have a "backup" and I did not want to do anything to discourage her progress. So I thought, "What's the harm in her accruing some pills she will never need if it makes her feel better knowing they are there?" But last week sometime, even after getting a full night of sleep with her cannabis capsules, she succumbed to the psychological hold that Ambien has had on her for so long. She said she just got to craving the "feeling" (or so-called "security") of taking the Ambien that she has depended on for so long. She took two of them (double dose) and thought she would get a nap during the day (something I have discouraged her from doing so that she will be more able to sleep at night). She awoke to our teenage daughter asking what happened or what was wrong. She had apparently driven to a local fast-food restaurant, bought some food, driven home, parked har car oddly in the driveway (on a weird angle and actually touching the house), eaten her food (leaving wrappers strewn about the kitchen and dining room), then fallen asleep on the sofa -- all with really no recollection of having done any of it. When they realized what had happened, our daughter started crying (worried about what "could have" happened to her mama/others) and angrily saying how it was so crazy that something perfectly legal (like the Ambien) did this crazy, weird stuff to her, when something illegal (the cannabis) has been helping her so much and so well (and that has made an impression on our daughter as she has noticed the very visible improvement in her mama's general well-being).

At the end of the day, it actually ended up being a good thing (since thankfully no one was injured or killed during this "sleep-driving" episode - Thank You Lord). My wife realized the very real and very strong psychological hold that Ambien has had on her (even when it had stopped working for anything more than a 2 hour nap with a hangover left behind). She realized how this could NOT be allowed to happen again, flushed the remaining Ambien down the commode, and promised our daughter (and I when she told me the story later) that she would never take Ambien again. This also very firmly (and very dramatically) cemented in our daughter's mind the reality of what I had been telling her about cannabis' ability to help her mama much better and much more safely than what the doctors could legally give her. She has made this statement a couple of times, "What's the big deal? It's just a stinkin' plant!" ("Stinkin" is her exclamatory-adjective word as she does not talk dirty, so she uses it where many folks might insert the "F" word. She actually loves what this plant has done for her mama.)

All's well that ends well.

Much love to all.

DrMJ,

Congrats on the relief that your Wife has found! I don't think people who have never experienced severe insomnia really understand how debilitating it can be.

I suffer from similar issues and have tried numerous OTC, perscription and home remedies to combat insomnia over the past 20 years. Prior to trying MMJ, the only moderately effective treatment I found was Ambien. My doctor had me taking it nightly for 3-4 months and I thought we had found "the cure". Unfortunately my co-pay was $150 for a months scrip and after a couple of months it became somewhat less effective. Then after 3+ months of nightly use I experienced a sleep driving event. SCARED THE S#@T OUT OF ME!!! I quit the Ambien and tried alternatives until my sleep got so bad I could not work effectively. I returned to taking Ambien but never more than a couple times a week. Not a very effective treatment but (barely) kept me from loosing my mind. Unfortunately, insomnia does not qualify for MMJ in my state.

When I did receive my MMJ authorization for chronic back & joint pain I received a tremendous bonus!! SLEEP!

With the reduction in pain and the ability to sleep 6+ hours a night, without side effects, my quality of life has improved dramatically. My Wife has told me repeatedly how happy she is with the improvements I have enjoyed.

Congrats again and thank you for sharing your story.

My whole life I've suffered with headaches and migraines, and since I started puffing the magic dragon 3 years+ never really get them or if I do, I have a bowl or two and it goes away.

Thank you for this thread. Very interesting. Thank you for pointing out the method also to extract CBD while burning off the THC. You meant CBD and not CBN right? Regards

According to my understanding, it is CBN that we are getting from the degradation of THC. It is the one that acts as an analgesic, anti-insomniac, and anti-spasmodic in the chart I have too. It is actually the only component that aids sleep, according to the chart. And this is not my method at all. I got this from BadKittySmiles on this forum (she is the BOMB). I just go the full six hours that seemed to be the maximum processing time she recommended. And my wife has actually discovered that she can eat "whenever" -- whether before taking the capsules, with the capsules, or any time after the capsules, with no notable difference (and she has been using them for a few weeks now, so she knows for sure). So that is another advantage it has over the Ambien she previously used. She had to wait until a certain time after eating, or she would take it and wait until she got sleepy and THEN she would eat. This plant and these capsules are the BOMB.

Edited by doctorMJ, 23 May 2012 - 08:47 PM.

Ok, yea I did a little research and found out about CBN. I'm going to try the same method. I know it wasn't your method, but you pointed out to it so thank you for that.

Ok, yea I did a little research and found out about CBN. I'm going to try the same method. I know it wasn't your method, but you pointed out to it so thank you for that.

I figured that was what you meant, but just wanted to make sure and give credit where credit was due

Kind of like when my wife was thanking me for "saving her life" with these capsules. I really cannot take credit for anything other than being a "decent indoor farmer" after discovering this wondrous creation (that I firmly believe God put here for us). The more I learn (and especially see/experience through her) about the capabilities of cannabis, the more I am in disbelief (and utter disgust at times) about the government having the nerve to classify this plant (Schedule I) as having "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States." Greed knows no end in our government, the pharmaceutical industry, and the privatized "for-profit" prison industry.

Thank God for Cannabis, and for me finding folks who knew exactly what I needed to know to prepare, grow, and process it into perfect medicine for her. The bad thing is that one cannot provide all this wondrous proof of what a good thing Cannabis is to the government or your Dr without opening yourself up to prosecution for breaking the silly law against it.

I have had several folks ask me (on forums or in PMs) how I make the cannabis capsules that my wife takes for her insomnia and migraines. Since the information is perhaps slightly difficult to glean from the truly massive and all-encompassing thread that BadKittySmiles maintains on edibles (here on GC), I thought I would post exactly how I make them here. I take my hat off to BKS and acknowledge her as THE master chef of all things cannabis and as the original source for the method I use (which has only minimal differences and is what "works for us.")



How I Make Cannabis Oil Capsules

Preface

First of all, I have to give credit to BadKittySmiles (or "BKS") on GC for her method, recipes, and advice. I would not (and COULD not) be making these if not for her. Many things you may see in quotes means I am using her term or verbage. On just about every facet of this process, you could learn much more by reading her tutorial, but it is around 1300 posts long right now. She uses tsp and Tbsp measurements, but after seeing what those amounts of the different materials weigh, it was easier for me to use weight measurements.

Using these capsules at the rate of 5-6 per night, my wife gets a full night of excellent sleep. I have wondered if they would work even better for her if not for a cholesterol medicine she takes (Simvastatin), since I don't know if it affects the absorption of the coconut oil fats. She can even wake up to go to the bathroom and then go right back to sleep too, which was something that Ambien could not do. She took Ambien for a decade, and was to the point that 2 Ambien per night would barely get her 4 or 5 hours of sleep. Her mother, who also has insomnia, gets the same results from only one capsule (presumably because she was not on Ambien and has a lower tolerance). My wife also uses these for migraine headaches at a lowered dose of usually 3 for a moderate headache and up to 5 for her most severe headaches. They have been a true Godsend and she regularly talks about how this "saved her life" (or drastically changed it for the better). Enough introduction, on to the process .....


Materials

Cannabis (DRY) - The cannabis that I first used to make these was Northern Lights (Seedsman Seeds) from my first-ever grow. I ended up with a decent enough yield, but I made mistakes with stopping nutrients too soon, not letting it flower long enough, etc. I only let it flower for 7 weeks before flushing. I have since found that with the same phenotype grown a second time, I got much more yield (and trichomes) from letting it flower for 11 weeks. So the potency of the next batch may be stronger. I said all that to say this -- your mileage may vary. Your cannabis may be stronger (or weaker), your tolerance may be different, you may not have to take as many caps, you know. But this is what I was working with when I started making these.

Coconut oil - I started out using organic coconut oil from the health food store. But when I did not have enough left one batch, I used some food grade RBD (refined, bleached, deodorized) coconut oil that I already had on hand and it worked just as well as far as we have been able to see. The coconut oil for cooking that you can buy at Wal-Mart would work just fine. Coconut oil is much better at being "bioavailable" than making cannabis butter or using some other oil.

Lecithin - Powdered lecithin is what was recommended in BKS' tutorial, but all I could find was lecithin granules at the local health food store. I have since started getting the powdered lecithin off eBay and I like using it better (it dissolves much easier than granules). This is made from soy and plays a big part in making the cannabis "bioavailable" once ingested. Lecithin is kind of like an enhancer used in vast amounts of foods and supplements. Lecithin is a component of the myelin or sheathing on the nerves in your body too. I would not make these without lecithin, as I am MORE than sold on the effectiveness of it.

Gelatin capsules - I find that the "00" size are great. They hold almost a ml of the oil and are both large enough for me to handle without tweezers and small enough to be comfortably swallowed by most people. I buy them in bags of 1000 at a time on eBay, and they are around 1 cent each when bought in that quantity. You don't want to try the ones made from veggie material (or "V caps") as they will dissolve easily and you cannot make up a bunch ahead of time for this reason. The gelatin ones are made from animal fats, but they meet the Jewish "kosher" requirements and the Muslim "halal" requirements, so it does not use pig fats at all.

Kitchen Utensils & other Items - Naturally you will need whatever dish you are going to use. It must be something safe for oven use and freezer use (after letting it cool to room temp of course). The Pyrex dish you will see in the pictures is an 8" x 10" 2.6 L dish. You will need something to grind up the cannabis in (I use a Ninja food processor). You will need something like a pipette to dispense the oil into the caps (I think lots of folks may use them to draw out water samples and such). I use a syringe with a large-bore IV catheter (the plastic part left after removing the needle), but not everyone has access to opened/expired items like this. You will also need heavy duty foil to cover your dish with, and some way of holding the caps upright if you want to make lots at a time (my method is shown later on).


Recipe & Process

I use one gram of cannabis buds (you determine the strength by the material) and one gram of lecithin to each 6 grams of coconut oil. The amount of lecithin I use is double what BKS recommends as the effective minimum. I figure it can't hurt and may help the potency/delivery. I also add in about 5% more oil than what the ratio above gives me, to account for oil left behind in the cannabis afterward.

Using that formula, this last batch (which will be referred to throughout this tutorial) was made from:
100 g of buds, 100 g of lecithin, and 630 g of coconut oil (600 from the 1:1:6 ratio and then another 30 g for the 5% that is usually left behind in the cannabis afterward).
This yielded me a total of about 630 capsules once they were all made up. Decarbing, which was a new term to me, is also an important part of this process since it makes the cannabis as effective as it can be.
I first heated my buds, uncovered, at 170 for 3 minutes. Every other heating of the materials will be done with an airtight, double sealed application of heavy duty aluminum foil (to keep in potency). I only did this uncovered, quick heating because my cannabis was too sticky to really chop up well in the Ninja. After removing it is still warm and sticky, but once allowed to cool it is more crisp and ready to process. If your cannabis is crispy enough to chop up I would just skip this part. 170 degrees for three minutes did not take away the potency either.

I chopped up my buds with the Ninja (pretty fine), then sealed it well with foil (do this for EACH heating) in my Pyrex dish and decarbed it dry for 20 minutes at 220 (with it in there both while preheating and left in with the door cracked while the oven was cooling).

After it was cool (and any potency that had been liberated with the heating had settled back in I guess), I removed the foil (if done carefully you can reuse the foil "lid") ...




sprinkled the lecithin granules on ...




drizzled the pre-heated/melted coconut oil on ...




and mashed it all together/mixed it. I like to use the back of a thick metal spoon and press on any clumps until everything is a nice, homogenous mix.




Covered tightly with heavy duty aluminum foil to prevent potency/aroma from escaping, and ready for the toaster oven (set to 220-225 F)




I used an oven thermometer to make sure of my temperature (250 on this toaster yields 220-225 actual temperature). BKS' tutorial talks about processing for 3 hours, and about how additional processing breaks down more of the THC into CBN (which is what we were after for sleep and pain relief). This can be broken into segments if you wanted to do it for three hours, remove it and let it cool, uncover and mash it up some more, then re-cover and resume for another three hours.
After six hours at 220 F, I let it cool enough and then put it into the freezer for 24 hours. Make sure and wait until it is cool enough because you absolutely do not want to put a hot piece of Pyrex (or hot glass canning jar) into your freezer and lose all your medicine when it fractures and falls apart. The freezing increases the extraction process, since everything right down to the cellular level contracts and expands as it is frozen and thawed. It is possible that it could be even more potent if you were not in a hurry for the caps (or had made it in two batches and could set aside one batch) and could allow it to thaw back to room temperature (mine gets liquid again with this much lecithin), then refreeze it, then repeat. You could do this for as long as you wanted to, just don't heat it much beyond the melting point or give it anymore oven time. After mine cooled enough, I actually poured/spatula-ed it into a quart canning jar for subsequent freezes, thaws, refreezes. After you have thawed it out from the first (24 hour) freeze, or anytime it is liquid after subsequent freezes, you can cap it up in capsules. I find that hitting the canning jar with my heat gun just a bit gets everything nice and liquid if it's not already.

I like to go ahead and pour it into a quart canning jar for sealing it up tight and for taking up less room in the freezer. Here is a batch ready to go into the freezer as soon as it cools to room temperature.




Straining the oil out of the material was a bit of a headache to me at first. I was using a reusable metal coffee filter and it was too small to fit much in, too flimsy for me to press a whole lot with the back of a spoon against the sides, etc. I have since found that I can just let it drain passively (if I have a day or so) by putting some screen mesh or cheesecloth over the lid of my narrow-mouth quart canning jar and securing it with the metal band or a big rubber band, inverting it, and setting it into a wide-mouth quart canning jar. Both jars (of mine) are the Ball brand, and the narrow-mouth one fits perfectly and nestles securely into the mouth of a wide-mouth one. After a day (with warm enough temps) it should have mostly all drained into the collection jar below. I have found that by sitting it in the warm air stream from my AC unit and giving it two days, it drained out better than I could have strained it by hand with a screen and a spoon. But that is just my method (and by far the easiest I have found). Once you strain the oil out of your material, you want to keep the material for at least one more wash/usage. I usually add back in enough melted coconut oil to cover the material well (in my quart canning jar). I then cap it tightly and let it sit in the freezer for a few days, then thaw out and sit melted for a few days, and alternate this process until the next time I make capsules -- when I then use it as some of the coconut oil for the next recipe. This gets some extra potency out, or at least washes it out of the old material to take the place of what you will leave behind in the new material (and reuse later too). I did find that if I just drained this "second wash oil" out and capped it, it still had a lot of potency left (about 1/2 strength according to how it made my wife feel medicated). Waste not, want not!

Here is my setup for straining, set it and forget it. Notice how the top portion of material in the top jar is actually dry, dryer than I could get it by straining/pressing by hand!




Making Capsules from the Oil

You can individually fill your capsules however you want to. BKS holds her caps in her fingers (with paper towel so her finger warmth does not start deforming the capsule) while she fills one, then caps it, and then sits them into some cold environment to chill and solidify them.
I prefer the way I came up with to do it. Here are pics of my setup below. I took two cheapo plastic cutting boards and drilled holes into one (for the capsule holder) and use the other one underneath it as a floor to keep the capsules from falling through. I found that 21/64" holes seem to work the best (with my "00" capsule size). My cutting board will hold 250 capsules at one time for filling. I separate the tops from the (bigger) bottoms of the caps, insert the bottoms into my holder setup, then draw up oil into my syringe and dispense it into each capsule, being careful not to overfill them and make a mess (which sometimes happens to a small degree). I then sit the holder full of caps into the freezer for 10 or 15 minutes (until I can see they are solidified), remove it and dump them into a container, then start putting the caps on them. I dump them into a container because I noticed that when the freezing cold holder was removed and allowed a couple minutes, it would start to collect condensation and make the caps get a bit too moist -- which makes capping them very difficult. Once they are capped I pop them into a container and put them in the freezer (I like to put rice in there too to keep any moisture that might occur from degrading the gelatin capsules). It might be the amount of lecithin I use, but my capsules will turn liquid again if allowed to return to room temperature (72 degrees F in our house), even though the coconut oil (alone) will remain solid until above 76 degrees F. We don't mind though. My wife says they are faster-acting if she does not take them until they are thawed.

My cutting board with 21/64" holes drilled into it, a 20ml syringe, and a 14g plastic IV catheter (with the needle removed)




Ready to go capsules, lighter-colored after being in the freezer




I hope that anyone making these enjoys the successful results my wife has gotten from them and I wish you well. Once again, a big shout-out and thank you to BadKittySmiles for this wonderful information she has shared.

Looks complicated. Not sure if I could follow that and get it right. My girlfriend has insomnia. She takes over the counter sleep aid but it doesn't help her much and once she wakes up no ammount of pills that she takes can put her back to sleep. The migranes she gets are bad and im afraind they'll get worse since her mom gets them. (they seem to be hereditary) I am curious, when your wife smokes, does she have to use a vaporizer to get rid of her migrane? My girlfriend smokes and sometimes it still doesn't work.

Looks complicated. Not sure if I could follow that and get it right. My girlfriend has insomnia. She takes over the counter sleep aid but it doesn't help her much and once she wakes up no ammount of pills that she takes can put her back to sleep. The migranes she gets are bad and im afraind they'll get worse since her mom gets them. (they seem to be hereditary) I am curious, when your wife smokes, does she have to use a vaporizer to get rid of her migrane? My girlfriend smokes and sometimes it still doesn't work.

Yes, my wife uses a Magic Flight Launch Box vaporizer if she needs delivery of the medicine quickly, since smoking is irritating and just not as healthy (anything burning is not great on your lungs).

I hate that you think this is too complicated for you to try. I am a "details" person and put in so much info that it might seem harder than it is, but I do that to make sure that I pass along everything with nothing left to wonder about. While a lot of the info is needed (sooner or later) to make sure all the details are right, I will word it differently below, because I would bet anything that these would help your girlfriend immensely.

Simplified process:

- Take (by weight) 6 parts (melted) coconut oil, one part cannabis (dried/decarbed), and one part lecithin powder and mix them in an oven-safe glass dish that is sealed well with foil (like airtight)

- Bake at 220 Fahrenheit for 6 hours, remove and let cool to room temperature

- Freeze at least overnight for maximum strength. Letting thaw out to liquid and refreezing again later is even better!

- Once freezing/thawing is done, let thaw back to room temperature to return oil to liquid state (possibly requiring some gentle heating but not much will be needed).

- Drain oil out and put it into gelatin capsules. About 4-5 ml of oil (or 5-6 "00" capsules full) knocks my insomniac wife out for the night. Keep capsules refrigerated (or at least keep them 70 degrees or below to keep them solid) for best shelf life and to prevent softening of the capsules.

These are the ABSOLUTE BOMB for my wife's insomnia and migraines. Nothing makes her stop having migraines altogether. But having these meds to cope with them has made her world a whole lot better. No more, "Do I have enough Lortab and Phenergan - or another refill?" "Do I need to see the Dr to get a refill?" "Is this headache so bad that my meds will not work? (necessitating a trip to the Dr - or the cursed ER on weekends - to get a 'knockout shot')" She knows that whatever comes, she has the primo method of pain relief right at her fingertips, with no wondering if there is enough or if it has "been long enough" since the last dose to prevent an overdose (like with opiates). Now granted, if she has one of her WORST migraines, she might start with a few sleep caps, then a couple hash caps, then possibly even a few hits on the vaporizer -- until she is knocked out and can't talk straight ....... but she has not went to the Dr or the ER for a "knockout shot" since getting this magic medicine. I saw a quote from a migraine specialist MD recently who said marijuana was the best and safest treatment he could offer his patients.


EDIT - Whatever you do, PLEASE don't let her get on Ambien, or any form of Zolpidem. It works for a while, then not so good, then not much at all, then you are a zombie dependent on it. My wife says they should take it off the market and warns everyone against it.

Edited by doctorMJ, 24 February 2013 - 10:26 PM.

The way you explained it this time seems easier. How much weight of each mj, oil, and lechetin do you put in the pan?

lecithin
Is there any data on why lecithin is used?
Thank You

lecithin
Is there any data on why lecithin is used?
Thank You

There's posts all over about lecithin. Thanks for the correction btw.
Mainly because its best at extracting/absorbing the thc

Ratio I use = 6 grams oil - to - 1 gram MJ (flowers is what I use) - to - 1 gram lecithin powder

The coconut oil is more bioavailable for your body than the lesser fats like corn, soybean, butter ---- and the lecithin makes it even more bioavailable. BadKittySmiles goes into much more detail in her thread, and mentions how lecithin is used in making all sorts of supplements and such due to its ability to make a smaller amount of something work as well as a larger amount. Lecithin makes up the insulative lining of every inch of your nervous system in the human body, too. She has had years of experience with this and knows her stuff way more than I, but I am the expert on what has worked for "my wife" and .... this .... has .... worked

Ratio I use = 6 grams oil - to - 1 gram MJ (flowers is what I use) - to - 1 gram lecithin powder

The coconut oil is more bioavailable for your body than the lesser fats like corn, soybean, butter ---- and the lecithin makes it even more bioavailable. BadKittySmiles goes into much more detail in her thread, and mentions how lecithin is used in making all sorts of supplements and such due to its ability to make a smaller amount of something work as well as a larger amount. Lecithin makes up the insulative lining of every inch of your nervous system in the human body, too. She has had years of experience with this and knows her stuff way more than I, but I am the expert on what has worked for "my wife" and .... this .... has .... worked

I'm just wondering how many grams of mj I need