I have about 10 kilos of dried, powdered cannabis root. It’s been sitting in my warehouse close to a year now and finally decided to do something with it.
Looks like there is some interesting stuff there however not much:
triterpenoids, friedelin (12.8 mg/kg) and epifriedelanol (21.3 mg/kg); alkaloids, cannabisativine (2.5 mg/kg) and anhydrocannabisativine (0.3 mg/kg); carvone and dihydrocarvone; N-(p-hydroxy-β-phenylethyl)-p-hydroxy-trans-cinnamamide (1.6 mg/kg); various sterols such as sitosterol (1.5%), campesterol (0.78%), and stigmasterol (0.56%); and other minor compounds, including choline.
I’m going to try room temp maceration in high pH water first then soxhlet extraction with ether followed by chloroform and finally acidic methanol. That should give me 4 different crude extracts for further processing. But does it make sense? Even assuming 100% extraction and separation efficiency the final quantity will be really small…
Any tips? Anyone interested in my results or extract samples? Or maybe it was already done and shared here but I suck at using the search function?
You can extract with alcohol and then the spent material can be used in baths or foot soaks (warm/hot water). The alcohol extract comes out to a dark sap when left to evaporate in a dish.
I would prep the roots with cold water to wash out the dirt then i tried and break it up best i could in a food processor. Then stuff as many roots as i can in a mason jar full of alcohol, i would reuse my alcohol 5 or 6 times, before evaporating it out.
(Id imagine the sap, could go for a hepty price though, theres some anti pain magic in there)
I dont evaporate it all out anymore, now i just mix with my desired topical oil and boil it out. It makes any topical work 2x better.
I grew up around famous spas and mud baths, i think cannabis root sap should be piped right into all the water in the spas, youd feel so much better than a regular spa. Might aswell allow cannabis consumption aswell and youve got yourself a very relaxing retreat
