I personally don't care for carts and suggest a portable vaporizer that uses straight concentrates.
If using carts, I would be extremely careful using carts made by others, especially if your wife's lungs are already compromised. There were a number of people who died from lipid pneumonia using carts that had been diluted using things like Vitamin E acetate, MCT, etc, et al. Here is a link discussing those issues:
https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/8-essential-oil-safety/8-7-vaping-illnesses-and-deaths/
The safest way is to dilute the concentrate with cannabis terpenes, which puts the flavor and entourage effect back into distillate. You can pick the terpenes with the flavors and entourage effects you covet, but with them also come their side effects, so you should familiarize your self with what those are. Here is a link covering those issues:
https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/8-essential-oil-safety/8-1-sweet-marys-charms/
In addition to flavor and entourage effect, terpenes add back harshness, so should be used discriminately.
If you are starting with an essential oil concentrate rather than distillate, you will need to winterize it to remove the plant waxes and decarboxylate so that it flows more easily.
To winterize the concentrate, dissolve it at a ratio of about 10:1 with ethanol and stick it in the freezer for 24 to 48 hours for the plant waxes to flocculate out, so that you can remove them by filtering through a #1 Lab filter or coffee filter.
You can decarboxylate it a couple different ways. Both uses heat but one can be done while the concentrate is still in solution in the ethanol from winterizing and the other requires that you first remove the ethanol. Here are those links:
https://graywolfslair.com/index.php...-2-decarboxylating-ethanol-tinctures-in-situ/
https://graywolfslair.com/index.php...1-decarboxylation/10-1-4-decarboxylation-101/
From a operational standpoint, you need a syringe to fill the caps, some way to heat the concentrate while mixing, and a scale to keep track of what your are doing. You heat the concentrate up enough to flow, and stir in your terpene mix until you achieve the desired viscosity, keeping in mind it will thicken up some at room temperature.
I've gotten my terpenes for experimentation from a couple different sources. They are both owned by the same parent company, which is Leburmuth, founded in 1908 and family owned. For cannabis terpenes I suggest Extract Consultants:
https://extractconsultants.com/
After the runaround we got when we were trying to sort out the lipid pneumonia and death issue, I would avoid True Terpenes company supplied products.
I would also avoid Connoisseur Concentrates like the plague, as they were one of the ones supplying Vitamin E Acetate as a safe diluent:
If using carts, I would be extremely careful using carts made by others, especially if your wife's lungs are already compromised. There were a number of people who died from lipid pneumonia using carts that had been diluted using things like Vitamin E acetate, MCT, etc, et al. Here is a link discussing those issues:
https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/8-essential-oil-safety/8-7-vaping-illnesses-and-deaths/
The safest way is to dilute the concentrate with cannabis terpenes, which puts the flavor and entourage effect back into distillate. You can pick the terpenes with the flavors and entourage effects you covet, but with them also come their side effects, so you should familiarize your self with what those are. Here is a link covering those issues:
https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/8-essential-oil-safety/8-1-sweet-marys-charms/
In addition to flavor and entourage effect, terpenes add back harshness, so should be used discriminately.
If you are starting with an essential oil concentrate rather than distillate, you will need to winterize it to remove the plant waxes and decarboxylate so that it flows more easily.
To winterize the concentrate, dissolve it at a ratio of about 10:1 with ethanol and stick it in the freezer for 24 to 48 hours for the plant waxes to flocculate out, so that you can remove them by filtering through a #1 Lab filter or coffee filter.
You can decarboxylate it a couple different ways. Both uses heat but one can be done while the concentrate is still in solution in the ethanol from winterizing and the other requires that you first remove the ethanol. Here are those links:
https://graywolfslair.com/index.php...-2-decarboxylating-ethanol-tinctures-in-situ/
https://graywolfslair.com/index.php...1-decarboxylation/10-1-4-decarboxylation-101/
From a operational standpoint, you need a syringe to fill the caps, some way to heat the concentrate while mixing, and a scale to keep track of what your are doing. You heat the concentrate up enough to flow, and stir in your terpene mix until you achieve the desired viscosity, keeping in mind it will thicken up some at room temperature.
I've gotten my terpenes for experimentation from a couple different sources. They are both owned by the same parent company, which is Leburmuth, founded in 1908 and family owned. For cannabis terpenes I suggest Extract Consultants:
https://extractconsultants.com/
After the runaround we got when we were trying to sort out the lipid pneumonia and death issue, I would avoid True Terpenes company supplied products.
I would also avoid Connoisseur Concentrates like the plague, as they were one of the ones supplying Vitamin E Acetate as a safe diluent:
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I give him the best bud in the freaking state and he basically said it was alright weed. Well, he did roll a blount with it so in his defense it was bound to be nasty. 
