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I was studying various extraction techniques when I came across someone using low pressure liquid CO2 in a test tube extracting D-Limonene from citrus peels. Some folks are using it for so-called "herbal Medicine". Many essential oils are out there but sometimes it is hard to find solid evidence that they are effective though.
Then in researching the effects of D-Limonene, I came across papers (lots of them) published and listed in the NIH that consistently show evidence of monoterpenes and triterpenes having anti-cancer effects.
The other interesting thing is it is relatively easy to extract these terpenes even with simple distillation from many plants naturally and I can't help but wonder how much benefit these have and if medical cannabis could be enhanced with additional natural terps.
Rick Simpson and many others including Dr. Raphi Mechoulam (who isolated THC in 1964) speak of the potential of THC to kill cancer and you hear a lot about CBD and to some extent CBN but I never hear much talk among the medical community about terpenes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21196213
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7987974
BTW, it is interesting that there are all these reference materials on a US government web library regarding the benefits of terpenes but the same government still classifies cannabis as "of no medical use".....Do they think these materials don't exist in cannabis?
What I am really interested in is how the various components of cannabis work together for good. If we knew how they worked (especially any complex interactions) we could select strains for various uses with better precision. It would also allow us to do more targeted selective breeding to get the medicine tailored to a specific medical condition.
About Dr. Mechoulam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Mechoulam
Then in researching the effects of D-Limonene, I came across papers (lots of them) published and listed in the NIH that consistently show evidence of monoterpenes and triterpenes having anti-cancer effects.
The other interesting thing is it is relatively easy to extract these terpenes even with simple distillation from many plants naturally and I can't help but wonder how much benefit these have and if medical cannabis could be enhanced with additional natural terps.
Rick Simpson and many others including Dr. Raphi Mechoulam (who isolated THC in 1964) speak of the potential of THC to kill cancer and you hear a lot about CBD and to some extent CBN but I never hear much talk among the medical community about terpenes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21196213
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7987974
BTW, it is interesting that there are all these reference materials on a US government web library regarding the benefits of terpenes but the same government still classifies cannabis as "of no medical use".....Do they think these materials don't exist in cannabis?
What I am really interested in is how the various components of cannabis work together for good. If we knew how they worked (especially any complex interactions) we could select strains for various uses with better precision. It would also allow us to do more targeted selective breeding to get the medicine tailored to a specific medical condition.
About Dr. Mechoulam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Mechoulam