Scintilate's Musings

In organic chemistry, a method of separating the compounds in a medicinal plant involves a type of chromatography. The most common types of chromatography used includes gas chromatography (GC), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and thin layer chromatography (TLC).  The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) , since inception, recommended using Gas Chromatography in determining drug-type marijuana from fiber-type marijuana along with using a ratio of only two cannabinoids - THC and CBD.  They have determined that a ratio of greater than one means drug-type and less than one indicates fiber or hemp type. Chromatogram using GC The problem with gas chromatography is in its lack of ability in separating the cannabinoids cannabichromene - CBC and cannabidiol - CBD.  In most Indica strains tested using Thin Layer Chromatography, there was either no cannabidiol present or there was only trace amounts relative to CBG - cannabige...

I've been spending a great many hours researching natural medicine.  Within this quest, whenever I type a subject into my favorite search engine (google, for example), NCBI appears as an authoritative source, or so it seems.  Who is NCBI? NCBI - The National Center for Biotechnology Information - according to wikipedia  " is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health . The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by Senator Claude Pepper ". A publicly funded organization, therefore, information to be taken with a grain of salt. We are told that autoimmune diseases (of which the list continues to grow) arise from unknown sources and they have no known cures.  Over and over again, we hear this from our "health care professional". With the above in mind, how is it that they can replicate a disease (of no known origin or cure) in mi...