Arthritis Balm Recipe

Joyle;1953307 said:

Hello there, I'm new to all this but I'm a grandmother and a cook. My daughter has systemic lupus and my grandson has autism, OCD, Tourette's syndrome, anxiety and other problems. I needed something other than toxic drugs that were shortening their lives and short changing their lifestyles. I found it ... Mj tincture, butter and cookies, Here are my observations and recipes for what they're worth.

Take 7 grams of bud and grind it in a coffee grinder dedicated for that purpose. Buy a small 100ml bottle of food grade glycerine. Choose a glass jar ... any old jar about 200 ml size with a screw lid will do. Pop the ground herb in the jar and cover with about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of glycerine. Screw the lid on but not tightly. Now find a small saucepan about 2 cup size. I have a little saucepan like that to use in my caravan to heat up milk or baked beans. I chose this smaller diameter saucepan that is a bit taller for a good reason. Now scrounge around in the bottom drawer or visit Gran and unearth the old fowlers vacola thermometer. Pop the glass jar in the little saucepan and stick the thermometer in beside it. Pour some warm to hot water in the pan up to the level of the top of the brew in your jar. If the jar is floating you have too much water in there. Now put the pan on your cooktop and slowly bring the heat up to around 180 degrees. Fiddle around until it sits on that temperature more or less. Don't worry about anything ... Sooner or later you'll get a great tincture. You needn't fret if it drops heat a little but try for no more than 180ish

So, leave it on the stove all day, stirring every 1/2 hour or every hour or every two hours ... get the idea? Don't stress ... It'll happen. When you're tired, go to bed and get up the next day and do it all again. My batch heated for a total of about 18 hours. To decant it I used four thicknesses of cheesecloth attached to the top of the receiving jar secured with a rubber band. I hollowed it a bit and popped my metal tea strainer on top .... Hi tech here! I poured the brew into the tea strainer and it dripped slowly onto the cheesecloth and with a bit of insistence from me through it into the jar below. I encouraged the process by pressing the dregs in the tea strainer with the back of a metal spoon. The final brew was so strong I had to add an equal quantity of glycerine in order to dilute it! My daughter uses the tincture in her vaporizer and also her e cigarette. We use it under my grandson's tongue for instant relief from his Tourette's symptoms. I use the tincture added to any old hand cream that's lying around mixed with a little emu oil topically to exactly where my daughter is hurting. The emu oil is added for deeper penetration through the skin layers.

For night time we use cookies made with canna butter. My cookies have an exact .42 grams of mj in each cookie so 14 grams of mj produces 33 cookies. My grandson has 1/2 cookie at bedtime and my daughter usually has one cookie. The reason I'm mentioning the cookies and cannabutter is I have read of people's concerns that glycerine doesn't extract as many goodies as alcohol in a tincture. We'll I don't fuss myself about that either. After I've made the tincture I wash everything that I've used ... spoon, strainer, jar, stirrer and the cheesecloth in water and put it in a saucepan. Into this I then throw that now dry knob of green dregs, 250 grams of unsalted butter and 14 grams of ground fresh mj and any previously vaped dregs my daughter has saved and make a batch of cannabutter! Waste not, want not ... anything left from the tincture production finds itself doing service in the butter production instead. Simply simmer the lot for about 9 hours on the stove top. Add water as necessary so that you always have about two cups in there. Strain and squeeze in the same way ... I use a 2 litre Pyrex jug. Pop some plastic wrap over the top of the jug and pop it into the fridge. When the greenish butter is set remove it from the water ... along with that odd wet looking muck on the bottom of the butter, I use that as well. You'll start with 250 grams butter but you won't harvest that much no matter how hard you squeeze. Just add a bit of regular butter or peanut butter to get the amount needed for your cookie recipe. Find your favourite cookie recipe and go for it. My daughter's favourite has ground ginger and brown sugar in it which masks the cannabutter taste beautifully.

A bit long winded I know but attempting to demystify all the processes and killing the stress. As for the whole decarb thing don't worry about that either. Vaporizing or e cigging decarbs it for you as you go. The tincture drop under the tongue works instantly as does the cream rubbed into aches and pains even though I didn't decarb before the cooking process. My goodness, why is this natural herb illegal and tobacco and alcohol not?! Enjoy

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