Therapeutic Effects of Cannabinoids
Why Cannabis is Good?
Cannabis is not only remarkable in its wide margin of safety as a medication but also for the wide array of conditions, symptoms, or illnesses for which it is used.
Cannabis is the only plant that contains cannabinoids similar to the endocannabinoids found in humans.
Delta-9-THC is the primary psychoactive cannabinoid and the most studied, but researchers are finding therapeutic potential in some of the other plant-based cannabinoids as well.
The Power of Cannabinoids
Cannabis is not only remarkable in its wide margin of safety as a medication but also for the wide array of conditions, symptoms, or illnesses for which it is used.
Cannabis is the only plant that contains cannabinoids similar to the endocannabinoids found in humans.
Delta-9-THC is the primary psychoactive cannabinoid and the most studied, but researchers are finding therapeutic potential in some of the other plant-based cannabinoids as well.
Plant Medicine
Cannabis is not only remarkable in its wide margin of safety as a medication but also for the wide array of conditions, symptoms, or illnesses for which it is used.
Cannabis is the only plant that contains cannabinoids similar to the endocannabinoids found in humans.
Delta-9-THC is the primary psychoactive cannabinoid and the most studied, but researchers are finding therapeutic potential in some of the other plant-based cannabinoids as well.
Why Cannabis is Good?
The therapeutic properties of cannabinoids include:
- anti-inflammatory
- neuroprotective
- analgesic
- antispasmodic
- anti-oxidant
- antibiotic
- anticonvulsive
- antiviral
- antifungal
- bone stimulant
- anxiolytic
- antipsychotic
- vasorelaxant
- antidiabetic
- antiproliferative
- and anti-tumor
Researchers wrote that:
“The therapeutic value of cannabinoids is too great to ignore and identified numerous diseases that are being treated by or have the potential to be treated by the cannabinoids in cannabis"
Why Cannabis is Good?
It can treat anorexia, emesis, pain, inflammation, multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative disorders (Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Tourette’s syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease), epilepsy, glaucoma, osteoporosis, schizophrenia, cardiovascular disorders, cancer, obesity, and metabolic syndrome-related disorders, to name just a few.
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