Can Cannabis Be Used as an Anti-inflammatory?

People have enjoyed using cannabis for its intoxicating effects for many years, but scientists are now praising it for its healing outcomes. New surprising facts of the cannabis plant are cropping up, and people now recognize the herb for its ability to ease inflammation. Since cannabis can work to soothe swelling, the herb could easily be the key to improve health and wellness in people with chronic pain.

 

What Is Cannabis?

Cannabis is a plant or herb that is suitable for use as a leisure and medicinal drug. The flowering top, seeds, leaves, and stems of the cannabis plant are dried to form the drugs. The drugs from the cannabis herb can have a pleasurable outcome. Moreover, they may ease the symptoms of different medical conditions, including pain and swelling.

 

Chemicals in Cannabis

Cannabis has over 100 chemicals that affect your body, the most popular ones being cannabidiol (CBD) and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) chemicals. Unlike THC, CBD does not make you high when you vape, smoke, or eat cannabis. Thus, this makes CBD a good option for people who wish to relieve their pain without experiencing the “high” found in using THC.

 

Cannabis for Inflammation

Studies on cannabis are still in their early stages, and doctors are yet to discover more. But research outcomes suggest cannabis eases inflammation by influencing action in the body’s endocannabinoid system.

 

The endocannabinoid system consists of particles that control and balance many body functions, including appetite, immune response, memory, communication between body cells, mood, pain-sensation, and more. These particles, called endocannabinoids, are like the body’s version of cannabis chemicals. They are like the body’s version of THC.

 

This means that when the body gets an injury, these particles rush to help reduce inflammation, which is usually the body’s response to injury.

 

What Signs of Inflammation Can Cannabis Treat?

Cannabis helps to increase the ability of your body's cannabinoids to fight off disease and self-heal. Cannabis helps to treat the following symptoms of inflammation:

 

• Pain and soreness
   

• Loss of appetite
   

• Stiff muscles
   

• Loss of energy or fatigue
  
   

Along with that, cannabis has been touted to help ease the symptoms of several inflammatory illnesses, and scientists are studying to know more. Such inflammatory illnesses include the following:

 

• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
   

• Ulcerative colitis
   

• Crohn’s disease
   

• Alzheimer’s
   

• Parkinson’s disease
   

• Psoriasis
   

• Atopic dermatitis
  
   

However, one of the main concerns with cannabis medication is the drug's mind-altering outcomes. This undesired result of cannabis is the biggest downside, which occasionally frustrates the drug's healing aftereffects.

 

Is Cannabis Appropriate for You?

Your doctor is the best person to answer this question, educating you on cannabis and telling you about the drug’s possible risks based on your situation. Using cannabis for your situation will also depend on whether the use of medical cannabis is legal where you live.

 

If cannabis is appropriate for you, and if the drug is legal in your state, your doctor will prescribe the type of cannabis and dosage that will benefit you the most.


 

For more on the medical benefits of cannabis or to schedule an appointment, call WellGreen Cannabis at our office in Palm Coast, Florida at 386-585-4866 today.