By Nancy Gardner


For many years, plant extracts have effectively been used to control human illnesses and prevent disease. This practice has been improved and more refined forms of extracts are now available in the forms best described as western medicine. One of the plants that are medically useful is marijuana plant. It contains very many substances and has several medicinal importance. It has been shown to contain up to 400 hundred different kinds of chemicals. In the present times, it is called medicinal plant and there are several medical marijuana domains approved for use.

In the olden times, marijuana was regularly prescribed to contain pain distress. It served the users well until uncontrolled use characterized by undesired end results made its use so infamous. Currently, several domains of this rear plant have been approved for official use in a controlled manner.

Science has enabled understanding and consequently acceptance of various occurrences. In medicine, it explains how a drug exerts its effect. For instance, it is now known that this drug acts on several regions of the body producing various forms of effects. Its receptors can be found on testes, spinal cord and brain upon which it binds and act to relieve pain or exert other effects. In addition, the chemicals in this plant can stabilize or eliminate abnormal cell as with cancers.

Uses of this plant abound. Some have been scientifically approved while others are still subject to research. Currently, only a few researches have been performed and the wide potential of this substance use still depends on more science discovery. Pain control is one main application of this drug. It has been proven to soothe individuals and relieve them of distressing chronic pains associated with cancer, neuropathy among other forms of pain. Moreover, it achieves this desire with minimal side effects as opposed to other regular prescription drugs.

A second medical application of this plant is to enhance proper sight by managing glaucoma. In this case, the eye ball pressure is gradually lowered thereby preventing blindness as a result of optical nerve injury. Researchers have shown that the use of this substance reduce intraocular pressure in both normal and raised eye pressures. Nevertheless, effect is associated with the use of cannabis weed which is however not a much approved form of this drug.

Furthermore, cannabis is very useful for the sick persons whose appetite is no longer good enough to sustain desired state of feeding. It serves to improve appetite and limit nausea or other feeding related problems. Poor feeding make a disease state worse as limited food intake has negative effect on healing a process. In fact, a well fed patient recovers faster and efficiently as opposed to poorly fed individuals with poor appetite.

As is the case with many drugs, there are a number of formulations ready for patient use. It could be taken thorough inhalation or orally. The preparations are available in chewable forms, liquid or smoking rolls units. Dosage is dependent upon individual variations or disease state. Quite often, correct dosages are arrived at by considering individual response to previously administered test dose.

Finally, scientifically verified substances should be utilized to improve life quality. Unnecessary restrictions would only derail success in health care.The success needs to be guarded strongly.




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