Today, there are many so-called vaporizer units on the market, many of which simply offer an inexpensive attempt to vaporize herbs. Many devices employ crude heating methods or utilize industrial grade metals which release distasteful and harmful toxins.

Remember, vaporizing is analogous to sipping a fine brandy, not chugging down a quick beer. Invest in a quality vaporizer which will work effectively and provide you with many years of enjoyable use.

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1. Vaporization produces no combustion byproducts such as carbon monoxide, tar or other carcinogenic elements
2. Vapor is considerably cooler than smoke and less likely to damage lung tissue
3. Vaporization provides a purer, more concentrated effect and requires less of the substance than if smoked or ingested
4. The substance is not degraded by digestive acids before entering the blood
5. There are no fillers or buffers as with pills
6. Vaporization acts quickly. The substance enters bloodstream more quickly than most methods
7. There is no danger of contaminated needles as in injections
8. Digital precision and the rapid onset of effect help to establish an exact dose specific to each user

Remember, future generations will marvel at our barbaric practices of inhaling smoke!

Vaporization, also known as volatization, is a process by which the active elements of a substance are released through the application of heat without combustion. In other words, the substance is heated, but never burned.

This is an important distinction because when a substance is burned it becomes denatured. Denaturing means that a chemical change takes place and the molecular structure of the substance is actually modified. When denaturing is catalyzed by excessive heat this is known as pyrolysis. Pyrolysis is a major drawback to smoking a material.

When pyrolysis occurs, a molecular breakdown creates new elements that had not been present in the source material prior to combustion. The obvious example is, of course, tobacco. When smoking a cigarette, you seek the effects of tobacco’s active element, nicotine. Through the process of smoking, however, you receive not only nicotine, but a handful of toxins and irritants, such as smoke and tar, which have been created by pyrolysis.

In contrast, because vaporization typically requires a temperature lower than a substance’s combustion point, pyrolysis never takes place and the substance is never denatured. In other words, vaporization releases the active elements of a substance through a method by which pyrolysis cannot take place. Therefore, it produces a pure aerosol mist comprised only of elements naturally occurring in the source material.

The key to vaporization is temperature: digitally precise, accurately maintained temperature. Vaporization is also known as volatization because it releases the volatile elements in a substance. In herbs, these are mostly the oils.

Scientists discovered the temperature at which the active elements in a plant will evaporate and aerosolize can be lower than the temperature at which that plant will combust. If correctly applied, a lower temperature will cause the release of an herb’s essential elements into an inhalable steam and provided the heat source remains at the lower temperature, the substance will never be burned. No smoke. No smoky odor. Just pure vapor from the botanical mixture of your choice.

From Plant to Vapor

Let’s take a moment to discuss what’s actually happening with vaporization. We all understand the concept of liquid to solid or liquid to gas, boiling water and freezing ice are examples we see every day. But solid to gas is a bit more difficult to picture. All plants are imbued with oils that hold many of the desired elements for a medicine or homeopathic remedy.

For example, in the case of aromatherapy, a chamomile leaf contains a center layer of essential oils. In fact, these oils contain the aroma and therapeutic benefits of the herb. The oils in each plant type will boil at a temperature specific to that plant. Boiling points depend mainly on the density of the oil. When the liquid within the leaves reaches a certain temperature the oil begins to boil, the molecules will move more quickly, and spread farther apart.

It is this action which thins the density of the oil from a heavier than air liquid, to a lighter than air gas. The substance can then be pulled by air and inhaled into the lung. In mist form, the particles of the oil are small enough to be absorbed into the alveoli (tiny air sacs that cover the surface of the lower lung) where they are almost immediately taken into the blood stream. As the vaporization continues, the essential oils are lifted from the plant and it becomes curled, and withered. It may darken in color and will often leave behind only a clean, dry, and crumbled substance.