Postby BrownBagger » Sat Jan 25, 2014 4:11 pm
I don't smoke it because I have lung involvement. What I do is make a tincture with pure grain alcohol. A tablespoon will fix you up for about 12 hours and, at least in my experience, offers immediate and complete relief.
Google "green dragon recipe" for a variety of methods for making it. Personally, I just grind, bake, soak for 48 hours and strain through a coffee filter. One tablespoon in a small glass of juice (and it's your turn to get baked).
It's not a lot of alcohol, though if you have liver involvement and are paranoid about the alcohol, you can boil it down to just the drug, basically.
Smoking it works just as well, though it doesn't last as long.
Eric, 58
Dx: 3/09, Stage 4 RC
Recurrences: (ongoing, lung, bronchial cavity, ribs)
Major Ops: 6/ RFA: 3 /bronchoscopies: 8
Pelvic radiation: 5 wks. Bronchial radiation—brachytheray: 3 treatments
Chemo Rounds (career):136
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