Studies have shown that medical marijuana can reduce the problem that happen when someone has what is known as chronic pain syndrome which is when a burning sensation occurs and a simple touch can feel like pain.
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.
The studies were then instructed to 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.
Another study in 44 patients reported that they found medical marijuana helped reduce neuropathic pain arising from a variety of conditions, including spinalcord injury and diabetes and was published in in June 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.
The average pain ratings before smoking were 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 puff.
Analgesic drugs are often tested against experimentally induced pain. These studies have been conducted for medical marijuana as well.
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.
The research concluded that smoking marijuana can bring relief to sufferers of neuropathic pain comparable to other analgesic drugs.
It's not a cure, It's like other pain medicines, you have to keep taking it to continue to get the positive effects. - 16069
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.
The studies were then instructed to 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.
Another study in 44 patients reported that they found medical marijuana helped reduce neuropathic pain arising from a variety of conditions, including spinalcord injury and diabetes and was published in in June 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.
The average pain ratings before smoking were 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 puff.
Analgesic drugs are often tested against experimentally induced pain. These studies have been conducted for medical marijuana as well.
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.
The research concluded that smoking marijuana can bring relief to sufferers of neuropathic pain comparable to other analgesic drugs.
It's not a cure, It's like other pain medicines, you have to keep taking it to continue to get the positive effects. - 16069
About the Author:
For more than 3 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 also authors a website site that researches into the medicinal positives of the marijuana seed.
