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Spagyric extracts add an additional step of extraction to the traditional two-step water and alcohol methods. Adding the minerals back that are lost through the water and alcohol process provides a more complete and powerful plant profile.
Crystal Minerals before being added back into the extraction.
Full Spectrum Spagyric Extract (left), Full Spectrum Distillate (right).
Most tinctures are further refined after the first extraction into a distillate. Distillates typically contain a lower content of cannabinoids and other bioactive ingredients.
Crude CBD oil is also known as full-extract or full-spectrum CBD oil and is considered true hemp oil with all of it’s compounds.
Origin: Greek: from ‘spao’ = I collect and ‘ageiro’ = I extract.
Spagyrics are alchemical preparations of herbs into a more potent form. Anciently, adding the purified salt, oil and alcohol of a plant together was thought as a more spiritual preparation. Interestingly enough, full extracts of plants also tend to have more powerful effects. This is verified through modern day research when it comes to ‘full spectrum’ plant extracts.
Spagyrics was a term coined by Paracelsus in the 1500’s. He popularized this method of plant extraction that eventually led to the pharmaceutical age. Many of the references in plant alchemy consist of purifying and recombining what was known as the spirit, soul, and body of the plant. Liquid extracts get most of the plant compounds but leave minerals behind. Minerals simply aren't very soluble. The spagyric process burns the plant material after the liquid extraction is complete. This controlled burn, called calcining, reduces the plant to a white ash of pure and soluble minerals. When combined with the liquid, a true full-spectrum extract results.
Extraction of the plant is done via alcohol and water in a soxhlet extractor for fast, high potency tinctures (all distillations should be done under vacuum so none of the heat sensitive components of the plant are destroyed).
Here the alcohol/water will dissolve the essential oils of the plant along with the alcohol/water soluble constituents. Alcohol is the only solvent which can extract the plant’s oils. Alcohol is also only produced from the decay of plant sugars through fermentation. It is a solvent made by plants for plants.
The solvent extracts both water and oil soluble compounds. These dissolvable compounds are also known as the ‘soul’ of the plant. It is said that the spirit of plants (alcohol) will always bring a soul with it…in chemical terms, the spirit or alcohol is dissolving the medicinal compounds of the plant (the soul of the plant).
The tincture is filtered off from the extracted herb or mark. The leftover extracted plant material is then incinerated and calcined to a fine ash. It is then mixed with distilled water and filtered to extract the minerals contained within the ash. The ‘fire of purification’ is used to drive off carbon and other compounds that keep the minerals unable to dissolve in water. The filtered water is then evaporated in a dish to yield the crystallized mineral salts.
These minerals represent the ‘purified body’ of the plant. It is mostly potassium carbonate which has a very basic pH. This process of mineral extraction extracts the full mineral profile of the plant consisting of important minerals for the body. Each plant species and the soil in which the plant grows will create different profiles of minerals in the end mineral extract. Another interesting fact is that land based plants contain potassium salts while sea or water based plants contain sodium based salts.
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