MEDICINE
The medicinal use of cannabis hemp is only now being understood and applied in spite of the fact that the herb has been a folk remedy for thousands of years.
Flowers
The consumption of high- THC cannabis flowers, or buds, through smoking or eating is used to treat a number of ailments:
One of the most enduring characteristics of cannabis as medicine is its inherent lack of toxicity. There has never been a recorded case of death from cannabis overdose in the thousands of years it has been used by mankind.
Seed and Seed Oil
Hemp has been a part of the Chinese pharmacopoeia for the past 4,000 years. Ancient Chinese folk remedies call for hempseed use to improve the "chi" or stamina of the body; to cure neurologic impairment due to stroke, urinary disorders, and blood deficiency.
Externally, hempseed preparations promote the healing of sores and dry skin. Traditional hemp oil formulas were applied topically to treat abscesses, boils, pimples and swellings. Currently marketed products include lip balm, moisturizers, shampoos, conditioners, soaps, salves, perfumes, liniments. These hempseed oil mixtures do the same for the skin and hair that the oil does for the diet when taken internally.
Sources
Nutritional/Medicinal Guide to Hemp Seed
by Ken Jones.
Rainforest Botanical Laboratories
The Great Book of Hemp
by Rowan Robinson
Inner Traditions International
Hemp: Lifeline to the Future
by Chris Conrad
Creative Xpressions
Hemp Today
edited by Ed Rosenthal
Quick American
Journal of the International Hemp Association.
International Hemp Association
HempWorld - The International Hemp Journal.
Reprinted from HempWorld - Winter 1997
The medicinal use of cannabis hemp is only now being understood and applied in spite of the fact that the herb has been a folk remedy for thousands of years.
Flowers
The consumption of high- THC cannabis flowers, or buds, through smoking or eating is used to treat a number of ailments:
- Nausea- for cancer patients while undergoing chemotherapy and AIDS patients, smoking cannabis is preferred over taking THC in pill form because it acts faster and patients are able to dose themselves more accurately.
- Intraocular pressure- for glaucoma suffers, cannabis relieves the pressure in their eyes that leads to blindness.
- Seizures- the cannabidiol in cannabis improves the condition of grand mal and partial seizure sufferers and allows them to reduce or dispense with conventional medications.
- Pain- for sufferers of migraine headaches, post-menstrual cramps, labor pains, multiple sclerosis, and cerebral palsy, cannabis reduces muscle spasms and tremors and allows them to avoid conventional medications with serious side-effects.
- Depression- for patients who do not respond to or who want to avoid the side-effects of other medications.
- Asthma- cannabis smoke dilates the bronchial passages.
One of the most enduring characteristics of cannabis as medicine is its inherent lack of toxicity. There has never been a recorded case of death from cannabis overdose in the thousands of years it has been used by mankind.
Seed and Seed Oil
Hemp has been a part of the Chinese pharmacopoeia for the past 4,000 years. Ancient Chinese folk remedies call for hempseed use to improve the "chi" or stamina of the body; to cure neurologic impairment due to stroke, urinary disorders, and blood deficiency.
Externally, hempseed preparations promote the healing of sores and dry skin. Traditional hemp oil formulas were applied topically to treat abscesses, boils, pimples and swellings. Currently marketed products include lip balm, moisturizers, shampoos, conditioners, soaps, salves, perfumes, liniments. These hempseed oil mixtures do the same for the skin and hair that the oil does for the diet when taken internally.
Sources
Nutritional/Medicinal Guide to Hemp Seed
by Ken Jones.
Rainforest Botanical Laboratories
The Great Book of Hemp
by Rowan Robinson
Inner Traditions International
Hemp: Lifeline to the Future
by Chris Conrad
Creative Xpressions
Hemp Today
edited by Ed Rosenthal
Quick American
Journal of the International Hemp Association.
International Hemp Association
HempWorld - The International Hemp Journal.
Reprinted from HempWorld - Winter 1997