Studies have suggested that medical marijuana can reduce the pain of a condition called chronic pain syndrome in which is when a burning sensation occurs and touch can feel like an injury.
chronic pain syndrome has been shown to be unaffected by drugs like aspirin and very resistant to stronger analgesics such as opiates.
In 2007 a study pertaining to neuropathic pain was done on patients with HIV related infections where they had fifty patients smoke medical marijuana cigarettes three times a day or medical marijuana cigarettes from which the active ingredients had been extracted.
They were then instructed to rate their pain on a scale from "no pain" to "worst pain imaginable."
The results revealed a 34% reduction in ratings of pain in the medical marijuana group compared with 17% in the placebo group over five days of research and published in the journal Neurology.
Additional research concluded that 44 patients found that medical marijuana alleviated neuropathic pain arising from a variety of conditions, including spinal cord injury and diabetes and was published 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.
Drugs like analgesic are often tested against experimentally induced pain. 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.
Just like all medications it is not a cure, It's just like other pain medicines as you have to keep taking it. - 16459
chronic pain syndrome has been shown to be unaffected by drugs like aspirin and very resistant to stronger analgesics such as opiates.
In 2007 a study pertaining to neuropathic pain was done on patients with HIV related infections where they had fifty patients smoke medical marijuana cigarettes three times a day or medical marijuana cigarettes from which the active ingredients had been extracted.
They were then instructed to rate their pain on a scale from "no pain" to "worst pain imaginable."
The results revealed a 34% reduction in ratings of pain in the medical marijuana group compared with 17% in the placebo group over five days of research and published in the journal Neurology.
Additional research concluded that 44 patients found that medical marijuana alleviated neuropathic pain arising from a variety of conditions, including spinal cord injury and diabetes and was published 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.
Drugs like analgesic are often tested against experimentally induced pain. 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.
Just like all medications it is not a cure, It's just like other pain medicines as you have to keep taking it. - 16459
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 also authors a website site that looks into the medicinal positives of the marijuana seed.