how about this
curing is slow fermentation
when you submerge the roots in boiling water it kills them. this in turn causes the plant to go into a "survival mode" and convert sugars and protiens to alcohol. the plant uses the alcohol to try to survive until the roots recover (which wont happended cause there dead) this alcohol then starts to ferment. the only kind of advantage i can see would be an earlier possibly faster cure. - Info from wonderful teachers who dont believe everything there told and dont discredit much immedietly.
The small problem with your theory is
a. Conventional curing is NOT "fermentation". While there is breakdown of complex sugars into simpler ones, so far as I know there is no conversion of sugars to alcohols by yeasts or other microbes during curing.
b. Proteins are not readily converted into alcohol in any case.
c. I doubt cannabis plants can readily metabolize alcohol, let alone use alcohol as a preferential food source during times of extreme stress.
In terms of belief/disbelief, I've heard it put this way: You should keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out of your head.
When someone tells you something that sounds implausible or ridiculous, the burden is on them to prove it, not on you to assume its true!
If I told you shoving cannabis plants up your ass would make them more potent, because the plant would then exhibit a "stress response" of secreting more resin to protect itself from its noxious environment, would you believe it?
If not, why is this boiling water theory any more plausible?
