Well, thanks for the info. I am not feeling so great about this now. I have been having trouble finding evidence of success/cure stories or testimonials anywhere on the web, and it seems to be a big mystery here also. I haven't found anyone who says they have cured their stage 4 cancer this way.
Stage 4 cancer is tricky. Since the cancer has entered the blood stream & metastasized, it's considered to be a permanent. The reason is because the cancer may lay low for months even years, but suddenly come back stronger & resistant to most treatments. That's the point where most people pass away from the disease. There is no such thing as "remission" for stage 4. The correct term for stage 4 is "No Signs of Disease" if the cancer is not seen in scans/labs.
The current issue with solely "tacking" is that you can't claim to be "cured", only at a stage where there is no sign of the cancer. A patient can go several years with surgery, chemo, radiation, dietary changes, cannabis, ect. & not have cancer show up in labs/scans. But unfortunately one day...bam...cancer is back & won't respond to much of anything. Patient passes away fairly quickly.
This is the sole reason my hair stands up when the term "cured" is used.
So, you won't find more than a handful of Stage 4 cases claiming to be cancer-free. Sad, but true.
I do decarboxylate the oil. I make the oil like this:
I use kleen extract, grind up the buds (not too fine), then cover the green material with kleen and agitate it for 3 minutes. Then I dump the mixture into a screen strainer so the liquid goes into a separate pan. Then, using the same cannabis, I do a second extraction and dump it through the screen strainer again. I then take the alcohol and dump it through an unbleached coffee filter (I use many at a time to speed up the process). I then take the resulting liquid, pour it into a Pyrex pie plate, and evaporate the alcohol with a fan, and on very low heat, like about 110f. When the alchohol is gone, and I am left with the oil, I put it in the oven at 240f for 35 minutes to decarboxylate. I then let it cool and suck it up with oral syringes, put caps on the syringes, and that's it.
It is VERY potent, and I assumed that high potency means it was properly decarboxylated. Is that so?
Yes. Sounds like you're nailing it.[/I]
Another important question: if the oil is straight up eaten with capsules and no tacking, it will STILL fill the CB1 receptors, right? Otherwise, how was Rick Simpson curing people? Sometimes I wonder if he actually WAS curing people. In "Run from the Cure" it's extremely vague in that respect. I hate to be so pessimistic and sceptical, but it seems there would be a lot more testimonials out there if this really worked.
Correct. Even smoking/vaping activates the EDS receptors, but to a tiny degree.
Rick Simpson based the majority of his knowledge on the work of the late Jack Herer. Jack was actually treating ppl with the oil prior to Rick. Rick has awesome stories about he & Jack. Rick started giving the oil to skin cancer patients & had great success. But, even the Phoenix Tears folks don't/won't claim to be curing Stage 4 internal cancers. Motoco got the idea to tack by watching the RFTC videos & noticed some patients were sticking the oil in their mouths. That, and he leaving the oil from his finger in his mouth too long.
Rick used to just make educated guesses why/how it worked. He's kind of given up on that now.
You're not pessimistic, you're realistic (so am I). As you should be. Following 1 person's advice (including mine) is foolish. You need to find you're own path.
Personally, I started just eating the oil like Rick showed. Didn't work, no results. I then learned of ingesting capsules, suppositories, etc. Had fairly decent results. Motoco & I hooked up so I tried just solely tacking. That actually produced the worst results. I later learned more as posted previously and am now getting great results. I am a caregiver for a handful of survivors as well as a Veterans Admin group leader/advisor. I had quite a few folks solely tacking. Mixed results. Brain cancer, PTSD, cardio diseases, ect. had the best results. But, the majority got worse. I implemented a revised protocol & the majority are fighting their illnesses well now (including me).
What is your wife's specific cancer if I may ask?
I am still doing it though...full force, because it's all we've got.
