Methods of treating or preventing skin diseases, such as for example, lichen sclerosus, pruritis or dysuria in a patient are provided. A therapeutically effective amount of a Peganum harmala extract or a pharmaceutical composition thereof is administered to the patient in need thereof. Also provided are methods for making a Peganum harmala extract and pharmaceutical compositions thereof.

A method of easily separating a solid electrolyte and a cathode active material which are contained in a slurry is disclosed. The method of separating a solid electrolyte and a cathode active material which are contained in a slurry includes: adding a fluorine-based solvent to the slurry containing the solid electrolyte and the cathode active material, the cathode active material containing at least one selected from nickel, cobalt and manganese as a constituent element.

The disclosed articles, apparatus, methods, and compositions provide for the integration of different and environmentally-friendly processes for extraction, stabilization, and formulation of active compounds with health and/or other benefits from lignocellulosic by-products of food processes. The active compounds can include one or more of polyphenols, flavonoids, o-diphenols, anthocyanins, and phenolic acids. A high-pressure, high-temperature extraction process provides a means to recover a substantial portion of the active compounds from a biomass feedstock. The corresponding extract can be encapsulated, which provides a convenient form for stabilization and delivery of the active compounds into a final product, for example an active packaging material or corresponding actively packaged food item.

The present application relates to processing of cannabis material, particularly on a large scale, such as at an industrial level. Cannabis is typically a controlled and regulated substance, and has traditionally been processed in low quantities. A human-based manual and/or labour-intensive processing implementation is not scalable, and is therefore infeasible at an industrial level. Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating industrial-scale processing of cannabis material.

Disclosed are methods for separating, recovering, and purifying cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) salts from an organic solvent solution comprising a mixture of cannabinoids. The methods comprise solubilizing the mixture of cannabinoids in C5-C7 hydrocarbon solvents, adding thereto a selected amine to thereby precipitate a CBDA-amine salt therefrom, dissolving the recovered CBDA-amine salt in a selected solvent and then adding thereto a selected antisolvent to thereby recrystallize a purified CBDA-amine salt therefrom. The recrystallized CBDA-amine salt may be decarboxylated to form a mixture of cannabidiol (CBD) and amine. The CBD amine mixture may be acidified to separate the amine from CBD. Also disclosed are CBDA-amine salts produced with certain amines selected from groups of secondary amines, tertiary amines, diamines, amino alcohols, amino ethers, and highly basic amines.

The present invention concerns a facility for cleaning cigarette butts, including a treatment tank configured to treat the cigarette butts in order to extract therefrom fibres to be depolluted, and depollution means configured to depollute the fibres by placing them in contact with a fluid in the supercritical state, referred to as supercritical fluid.

The present disclosure provides an ultrasonic-microwave synergistic extraction method of total saponins in beautiful millettia root, comprising the following steps: S1, material treatment, S2, cold soaking, S3 enzymatic hydrolysis, S4 extract extraction, and S5 ultrasonic-microwave synergistic extraction. The extraction method of the present disclosure extracts relatively high content of total saponins, and has relatively high yield of saponins and low content of impurities, and each step acts synergistically to solve the problems of relatively low total saponin content, more impumayrities and bubbling in the extraction process.

Method and system for the extraction of oils from a biomass with a liquid carbon dioxide using cosolvent. The system and method can be used to extract cannabinoids from Cannabis biomass by cryogenically freezing the biomass and exposing the Cannabis biomass to sub-cooled liquid carbon dioxide and capturing a first high-terpene extract fraction, and then exposing the Cannabis biomass with a mixture of superfluid carbon dioxide and a cosolvent to capture a high cannabinoid second fraction.

Stable liquid formulations dominant in cannabidiol (CBD) can be manufactured by a sequential process of purification to create a formulation that does not crystallize under a variety of storage and use conditions, and without the use of potentially harmful additives. For example, the formulation may be used in vaporization devices (i.e., electronic cigarettes) that typically require formulations to remain in a non-crystalline, non-solid, or non-partially solid state. The liquid formulations dominant in CBD may further contain other phytocannabinoids, including, but not limited to, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabigerol (CBG), cannabichromene (CBC), cannabinol (CBN), and cannabidivarin (CBDV) in higher concentrations than unrefined and refined cannabis extracts obtained via existing methods.

Some variations provide a remediation composition for pesticide and/or heavy-metal remediation of a biomass extract, the remediation composition comprising at least one polysaccharide, at least one metal oxide, and at least one metal salt. Some variations provide a process for producing a biomass extract from a biomass feedstock, comprising: providing a starting biomass feedstock that contains a pesticide or a heavy metal; exposing the starting biomass feedstock to a process solvent, thereby forming a biomass extract dissolved and/or suspended in the process solvent, wherein the pesticide or heavy metal are contained in the biomass extract; providing a separation media containing a polysaccharide, a metal oxide, and a metal salt; and introducing the biomass extract to the separation media, wherein the pesticide or the heavy metal are removed by the separation media, thereby generating a remediated biomass extract. Systems utilizing the remediation composition in fixed or fluidized beds are described.