Therapeutic uses of cannabis medical cannabis cannabis. Cannabis, also known as marijuana, is widely known to have a range of medical benefits and has been used for healing since the dawn of human history. Cannabis appears in almost every known book of medicine written by. This list ranges from vomiting and nausea caused by chemother. Therapeutic uses of cannabis edition 1 by british medical. Therapeutic uses of cannabis british medical association.
This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. There are more than 60 therapeutic compounds in cannabis that are healing agents in medical and herbal treatments. Therapeutic uses of the cannabinoids and other cannabis compounds, part 2. Because it is uncorrected material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages. However, case reports have suggested that cannabis can reduce tics and that the therapeutic effects of cannabis might be due to the anxietyreducing properties of marijuana rather than to a specific antitic effect hemming and yellowlees, 1993.
The primary one is thc, and the effectiveness of therapy is directly proportionate to the herbs potency or concentration of thc. The report discusses in a clear and readable form the use and adverse effects of the drug for nausea, multiple sclerosis, pain, epilepsy, glaucoma, and asthma. The cannabis used is usually obtained illegally, which can have consequences for both those who use it and nurses who provide treatment in the community. Specific medical uses are then examined, including its application for sufferers of cancer, aids, glaucoma, and seizure disorders, and its potential use in psychiatry. Nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy 10. From bench to bedside sets aside the condemnation and hysteria of societys view of cannabis to concentrate on the medically sound aspects of cannabis therapeutics. This research portfolio includes some studies utilizing the whole marijuana plant cannabis sativa, but most studies focus on individual cannabinoid compounds. Open cannabis ebook library a wide range of ebooks are available. Dec 15, 2018 according to experts, cannabis can help reduce chronic pain, nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, and stiff muscles caused by multiple sclerosis.
However, for the overwhelming majority of people, cannabis has demonstrated literally hundreds of therapeutic uses. Buy therapeutic uses of cannabis by british medical association from waterstones today. Continued from part 1, kenneth proefrock continues presenting his clinical experience using cannabis therapeutically for a wide range of conditions from seizures, restless leg syndrome and insomnia, to cancer, ms, parkinsons and chronic pain. Marijuana generally refers to the dried mixture of leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, and the term cannabis is a commonly used to refer to products derived from the cannabis sativa l. It will be welcomed by those who believe that cannabinoids can be used in medical treatment.
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Recent dea reports of increasingly potent marijuana. In the first decades of the 20th century, the western medical use of cannabis. Cannabis sativa, cannabis indica, and cannabis ruderalis. Such use is permissible under the single convention on narcotic drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 protocol, provided a number of conditions are met. Miracle cannabis oil cures all diseases, but big pharma and the law enforcement industrial complex does not want us to have it, screams another. As everyone knows, the pharmaceutical industry is big business.
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