Recent studies done by scientist has shown medical marijuana can alleviate a condition called chronic pain syndrome which is a burning sensation that occurs when a slight touch of something can feel like a wound.
This condition is unaffected by drugs in the aspirin family and fairly resistant to stronger analgesics such as opiates.
In a 2007 case study on neuropathic pain was done on patients that had HIV related infections; they had 50 patients smoke marijuana cigarettes 3 times a day or a medical marijuana cigarettes from which active ingredients had been extracted.
They then had the patients rate their pain on a scale ranging from "no pain" to "worst pain imaginable."
The results indicated a 34% reduction in ratings of pain in the medical marijuana group compared with 17% in the placebo group over five days of treatment as was published in the journal Neurology.
An additional study concluded that 44 patients reported in June found that medical marijuana took away neuropathic pain resulting from a variety of conditions, including spinal cord injury and diabetes and was published in the Journal of Pain.
The case study was conducted in the following manner -- the medical marijuana group was first instructed two puffs, then three puffs an hour later, then four puffs an hour after that -- from a single cigarette containing either 0%, 3.5%, or 7% THC.
Prior to smoking medical marijuana, the average pain rating was a 55 on a 100-point scale and decreased by 46% in both treatment groups and by 27% in the placebo group one hour after the last inhale.
It is quite normal for analgesic drugs are often tested against experimentally induced pain. Such studies have been conducted for medical marijuana too.
One such example of this is when 15 healthy volunteers received skin injections with capsaicin as was published in 2007 in the journal Anesthesiology.
capsaicin is the compound behind that fiery spice in chile peppers; and then the participants smoked different strength medical marijuana cigarettes.
The medium dose, with a 4% THC concentration, lessened the burning pain.
All studies concluded that smoked marijuana can bring relief to sufferers of neuropathic pain comparable to other analgesic drugs.
Just like all medications it is not a cure, It's just like other pain medicines as you have to keep taking it. - 16752
This condition is unaffected by drugs in the aspirin family and fairly resistant to stronger analgesics such as opiates.
In a 2007 case study on neuropathic pain was done on patients that had HIV related infections; they had 50 patients smoke marijuana cigarettes 3 times a day or a medical marijuana cigarettes from which active ingredients had been extracted.
They then had the patients rate their pain on a scale ranging from "no pain" to "worst pain imaginable."
The results indicated a 34% reduction in ratings of pain in the medical marijuana group compared with 17% in the placebo group over five days of treatment as was published in the journal Neurology.
An additional study concluded that 44 patients reported in June found that medical marijuana took away neuropathic pain resulting from a variety of conditions, including spinal cord injury and diabetes and was published in the Journal of Pain.
The case study was conducted in the following manner -- the medical marijuana group was first instructed two puffs, then three puffs an hour later, then four puffs an hour after that -- from a single cigarette containing either 0%, 3.5%, or 7% THC.
Prior to smoking medical marijuana, the average pain rating was a 55 on a 100-point scale and decreased by 46% in both treatment groups and by 27% in the placebo group one hour after the last inhale.
It is quite normal for analgesic drugs are often tested against experimentally induced pain. Such studies have been conducted for medical marijuana too.
One such example of this is when 15 healthy volunteers received skin injections with capsaicin as was published in 2007 in the journal Anesthesiology.
capsaicin is the compound behind that fiery spice in chile peppers; and then the participants smoked different strength medical marijuana cigarettes.
The medium dose, with a 4% THC concentration, lessened the burning pain.
All studies concluded that smoked marijuana can bring relief to sufferers of neuropathic pain comparable to other analgesic drugs.
Just like all medications it is not a cure, It's just like other pain medicines as you have to keep taking it. - 16752
About the Author:
For more than three decades, Dr. Julian Reindhurst has studies the medicinal powers of marijuana. He has a blog that gives the perspective of how marijuana seeds benefited other civilizations. He authors a website site that researches into the medicinal positives of the marijuana seed.
