Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Sugar Free Cannabis Elixer

Elixers are a safe and convenient way to ingest herbal medicines but recipes generally call for sugar as a preservative and sweetening agent.

This is fine for most folks but for diabetics too much sugar is detrimental to their health.

Studies that indicate cannabis helps with diabetes management so a sugar free elixer would be particularly helpful for those people and anyone on a low carb diet.

Here is a sugar free syrup that can be used in place of honey in our Elixer Recipe.

The ginger also helps to calm queasy stomachs and fight nausea.

Ingredients:
  •     2 cups water
  •     2" to 3" piece fresh ginger
  •     1/2 teaspoon white stevia powder
  •     1 tablespoons root beer extract
  •     1 gram ascorbic acid powder (vitamin C)
Method:
  1. Peel and finely chop the ginger
  2. Bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan.
  3. Disolve the ascorbic acid powder.
  4. Add the ginger and stevia, reduce the heat to low, and simmer gently for 8 to 10 minutes.
  5. Remove the ginger from the liquid
  6. Stir in the root beer extract.
  7. Cover and refrigerate.