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the wellness glossary.

each piece, named. the visible line is what is printed on the lid. open any term for what it does and the mistake worth avoiding.

compound

the compound you were prescribed or sourced, supplied as a dry powder in a sealed glass vial. it cannot be dosed as a powder, so it has to be reconstituted, meaning mixed back into a liquid with bac water, before the pen can use it.

what it is · a dry powder in a small sealed glass vial, sitting under a rubber top and a metal collar. it may look like a thin film, a puck, or barely anything at all. all of those are normal.

what it does · nothing, until it is a liquid. a pen cannot dose powder.

reconstitution is simply the word for turning it back into a liquid with bac water. it is the one piece of vocabulary worth learning, because every guide uses it.

never spray water directly onto it, never shake it, and never warm it to speed things up.

bac water

bacteriostatic water, bac water for short. sterile water with a little preservative in it, so the bottle stays clean after a needle goes in. it is the only water used here, never tap, bottled, filtered or distilled.

what it is · sterile water with a small amount of preservative, sold in its own sealed vial with its own rubber top.

what it does · dissolves the powder, and keeps the vial usable after a needle has been through the top more than once. that preservative is the entire point.

using any other water. tap, bottled, filtered, distilled and sterile saline are all wrong, and three of them look identical to bac water in a glass. plain sterile water has no preservative, so anything that gets in stays in.

syringes

the barrels with numbers up the side. they measure the bac water and push it where you want it.

what it is · a clear barrel with a plunger and graduations printed up the side.

what it does · two jobs: measuring, and moving. the number you draw to is the number the calculator gave you.

reading the graduation from an angle. read it straight on, at eye level, with the barrel vertical.

transfer needles

the long ones move liquid between bottles only. one of them becomes your vent.

what it is · the longer, wider needles that screw onto a syringe.

what it does · moves liquid from bottle to bottle. that is all. a transfer needle is never the thing you dose with.

the vent · one of them does a second job in step 3. pushed through the cartridge neck and left there, it gives trapped air a way out while liquid goes in. without it, pressure builds and the liquid pushes back at you.

re-using one across two draws. one needle, one job, then the sharps bin.

filters

a membrane disc punched with holes 0.22 microns across. liquid passes, bacteria and specks do not. clear liquid can still carry both, invisibly, so filtering is never optional here.

what it is · a small disc that screws between the syringe and the needle, holding a membrane with holes 0.22 microns wide, roughly three hundred times finer than a hair.

what it does · liquid goes through. bacteria and undissolved specks do not.

why it matters more than it looks · a mixed vial can be perfectly clear and still carry particles and airborne bacteria picked up while needles went in and out. none of that is visible to you at any point. filtering is the only step that removes it, which is why mira includes filters in every box and never charges extra for them.

forcing it. a filter is designed for one slow, smooth pass in one direction. never push hard, never pull liquid back through it, and never use one twice.

alcohol pads

alcohol wipes. every rubber top gets wiped and left to dry before a needle goes through it.

what it does · cleans the rubber tops before anything pierces them: the compound vial, the bac water vial, the cartridge neck.

wiping and going straight in. it has to dry. wet alcohol on the needle defeats the wipe.

cartridge

the little glass tube that holds your finished mix and clicks into the pen.

what it is · a small glass tube with a rubber neck at one end and a plunger at the other.

what it does · holds the finished, filtered liquid and loads into the pen.

filling it in your hand. it stands in its own well in the tray for exactly this reason, so both your hands are free for the syringe and the vent.

pen

the reusable pen. the cartridge goes in, a fresh pen needle screws on the front, and the dial at the back sets the dose.

what it does · turns the number the calculator gave you into a repeatable action.

storing it with a needle still attached. the needle comes off and goes in the sharps bin every time.

pen needles

the short fine needle that screws onto the pen. a new one every time you dose.

what it does · the only needle used at the dose step, and the only one that is ever fresh out of its wrapper for it.

reusing one. a needle is sharp once. a fresh one every single time, and never put the cap back on by hand: it goes straight into the sharps bin.

units

the numbers you dial on the pen. a unit is a fixed step of liquid, not a millilitre and not a milligram.

units are not millilitres and not milligrams.

a unit is one click of the dial: a fixed, small volume of whatever liquid is in the cartridge. it is a measure of how much liquid, never a measure of how much compound.

that means the same dialled number can be a different amount of compound in two different cartridges. how strong each unit is depends entirely on how much bac water you added when you mixed. more bac water, weaker per unit. less bac water, stronger per unit.

a number a friend dials, or a number from a forum, means nothing for your cartridge. work only from the calculator, and only from the mix you actually made. write down the bac water amount and the date on the vial, and dial from that.

how much bac water

the amount of bac water you add decides how strong each dose is. the mira calculator gives you both numbers: bac water to add, units to dial.

there is no single right amount. there is the amount that makes your prescribed dose land on a clean, easy number of units.

the calculator takes what you were prescribed and gives you both halves of the answer at once, so the two can never drift apart.

changing the water amount later without redoing the units. the two numbers are one number in two parts.

sharps bin

a rigid, sealed container for used needles.

what it does · keeps used sharps out of household bins and away from anyone else.

recapping by hand, or a drinks bottle standing in as a container. an approved container, closed, disposed of the way your area requires.

the tray

the moulded tray holds every piece in the order you use it, top to bottom, with the numbers and colours printed alongside.

the paper sheet over it names each bay. the two small wells at the top are the cartridge holder and the vial holder. the open area beside them is the reconstitution area, where mixing happens.