Green Dragon Flavors?

[knottwhole]

I have a patient (Quadriplegic) who is doing very well on green dragon for neuralgia.

We've been using brandy (80 proof) for our alcohol base due to flavoring. It's still a bit hot for sublingual application.

Has anybody tried any flavorings without sugar to mellow out the tincture? She does well on mixing with drinks, but when her pain kicks in, nothing beats under the tongue application for speed.

Thanks in advance.

[boroboro]

I like weak tinctures added to tea, so I haven't tried it, but I read that sublingual tinctures work best when they're very strong and concentrated. i.e. start with Everclear or other 190 proof alcohol (available in Wisconson or Indiana, not Michigan), then cook down the extract / tincture to a small volume of the starting amount.

 

I would think that if you cooked down a Brandy tincture that you would end up with flavored water and cannabis, since the alcohol fraction of the Brandy will boil off before the water fraction.

[jaman]

Hi i saw everclear a meijer. Interested in how this made Thanks. PEACE

[boroboro]

The Everclear in Michigan legally has to be a max. of 151 proof, or 75% alcohol and 25% water. I think it works fine for tinctures, but not if you boil them down after doing the extraction.

[Guest thequietone]

To get the best extraction possible try using this organic grape spirits. grape sprits Any alcohol based flavoring will work, but I think sour apple would work the best.

[boroboro]

Thanks for the link, quiet one!  At $150/gallon it's almost double what Everclear costs over in Wisconsin, but that might be worth it for an organic, artisan-produced, USP grade product.

[Guest thequietone]

It is expensive, but I think it will be worth it in the end. A friend turned me on to it and this is all he uses now, tells me it works better then Everclear. I will be ordering up some soon to try it for myself.

[+Dizledot]

Check out my blogs I have tincture recipes there. If you don't like the burn with alcohol based tinctures I have one where you use a very strong alcohol base tincture and convert this into a glycerin tincture by evaporating all the alcohol off in the glycerin.

 

Dizz

[knottwhole]

Anybody who hasn't tried Dizledot's glycerin tincture really should.

Thanks again.