, and it also makes it much better for topical use!
High WAARJA,
Hey Cajuncelt, great thread.. nice to see bioavailability being taken seriously. I myself haven't yet tried adding Lecithin to my olive oil, mainly because of reports that the effects basically are shorter lasting along with stronger. But either way could be good and i plan on trying a Lecithin combination soon.
I would like to add something though, and it has to do with essential oils which i am adding to my oil.. 2 drops per 10ml to be exact, and a combination of lemongrass oil, lavender oil, and sweet orange oil. Some of the main terpenes which alter the effect of Cannabis are myrcene(lemongrass), linalool(lavender), and limonene(sweet orange).
In my daytime oil i use lemongrass and sweet orange, and for the night time oil lemongrass and lavender. Seems to work quite well and could be worth looking into for you. Greatly helps with taste and smell as well
Mr Teddy advised me to post on this thread to get advice from the guru Cajuncelt...
I hope you don't mind me simply pasting my post from the original thread I created. Here it is:
Hello all,
My father has recently been diagnosed with asbestos related lung cancer. He is pretty elderly and received his asbestos exposure via the US Federal Gov't. He has a myriad of health issues. I am not actually concerned with healing him, but with helping him. He has massive arthritis, COPD, diabetes, high blood pressure, neuropathy, kidney failure, congestive heart failure and a recent pacemaker which means blood thinners. Now...cancer. The biggest problem is that he is allergic to every single pain killer available. Morphine, codeine, fentanyl... everything. I only want to keep him okay with pain.
The goal that my siblings and I have in mind is to just help him to pass with dignity and decency.
From what I have studied, RSO seems like it would help him with this goal. I do understand that it may normalize blood sugar and blood pressure. Those are things that can be monitored and adjusted.
I am willing to take the legal risk associated with bringing him some relief. I live in the state that put a man in jail for life for cannabis, so it isn't something I say lightly. I have no desire to be caught in legal quagmires, but I'm fairly astute and believe that an unjust law is no law at all....But I want to be smart about it and not cavalier.
First, is there any knowledge of actual allergic reactions to cannabis oil made with food grade alcohol?
Second, with the conditions listed above, are there contraindications that I need to be aware of and explore prior to embarking on using cannabis oil to help with the pain and hopefully enabling him to sleep more than 2 hours at a stretch?
Thirdly, I find it repugnant to human decency that a natural plant that can help with these maladies has the potential to land me in not only jail but prison. I'm thinking a good Samaritan law is likely to be tested in this type of issue.
Let me know thoughts and if possible, the best place to get the proper substrate to get best benefit for my Dad. I'm pretty sure that I am looking for a 2 to 1 ratio of THC to CBD. Also that I am going to need Indica dominant.
To reitterate, I know the blood pressure and sugar is likely to normalize and those meds can be adjusted with home monitoring. I'm concerned about the blood thinner as we can't monitor that at home, and I'm not sure how we can check possible effects on that. As I said though, he needs pain relief, so we can balance...and if it stops the cancer, so much the better!
Thank you!
