I plan on buying the scale mentioned elsewhere in this thread:
http://www.amazon.com/American-Weigh-Gemini-20-Portable-Milligram/dp/B0012TDNAM
But still, working with doses as small as 20-25mg seems both to require extreme diligence and tiny measuring spoons, etc., and pushes the scale's accuracy to its limits. Also, my eyes and hands aren't cut out for such tiny, delicate work!
So, just to get things on a more easily manageable scale for working with, can anybody see a flaw with the following plan? I intend to combine one gram of the active substance with 3g of rice flour, then subdivide the 4g mixture into 40 (100mg) capsules, which should contain very close to 25mg of active substance in each capsule.
Seems to me that this would be not only less strenuous in terms of working with it, but it should enhance the accuracy of the scale (for our purposes), since a 4mg error would only contain 1mg of active substance. Therefore if you can get accurate dosing within 5mg, you should be only +/- a little over 1mg!
How is that not a good thing?
EDIT: Forgot to mention that to facilitate mixing, I would use a food container (the kind of container with a snap-on lid), add the 3-plus-1 grams of ingredients, seal the lid and shake vigorously for a minute or so, and then get busy portioning onto a slick paper (with the scale tared to the weight of the paper) for filling the capsules. Anybody not with me?
Solano