Is Marijuana Good For Your Well being?6873129
Yes marijuana is good for your well being. Healthcare marijuana that is. These days there is growing interest in the use of healthcare marijuana for treating everything from cancer to menstrual cramps and migraine headaches. Individuals who would not be caught dead using marijuana are now interested in medical marijuana simply because it may be able to save their lives.
Medical professionals worldwide have utilized marijuana for millennia to treat a variety of ailments. Modern medicine men are begrudgingly beginning to acknowledge healthcare marijuana can aid in the therapy and remedy of many illnesses.
Earliest Usage
Marijuana, or more correctly Cannabis Sativa, has been used for its medicinal properties for over 5,000 years. Its earliest documented use is in China. In the 28th Century B.C. the Chinese Emperor Shen-Nung prescribed marijuana for gout, beriberi, constipation, 'female weakness', rheumatism and malaria amongst other ailments. In 2,000 B.C. physicians in Egypt were prescribing marijuana for eye problems. In India in 1,000 B.C. marijuana was becoming utilized as an anesthetic and an anti-phlegmatic and Hoa-Tho, a 2nd Century A.D. Chinese physician is reported to have used marijuana as an analgesic during surgery.
Modern Usage
Today in numerous components of India and especially in Ayer Vedic medicine marijuana is utilized to treat a wide range of ailments. It is also used as a sedative, an analgesic, an anti-hemorrhoidal and an antispasmodic.
One might infer marijuana is only used in 'backward' Asian nations with no understanding of contemporary healthcare practices, But one would be wrong. Napoleon's army used it to treat burns, as a sedative and as a discomfort reliever. In the United States in 1961 the National Institute of Mental Health did a study that indicated marijuana could be used for epilepsy, infant convulsions, treatment of tetanus, convulsions of rabies, therapy of depression, as a sedative and hypnotic in relieving anxiety and has antibiotic properties.
These days physicians prescribe medicinal marijuana to stimulate the appetite of AIDS individuals, treat glaucoma and numerous sclerosis and reduce nausea for cancer individuals. The British House of Lords in a 2001 report stated marijuana could be used to treat migraine headaches, schizophrenia, asthma, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and general pain. Physicians also acknowledge it can help to treat higher blood pressure.
Medical Marijuana Movement
There is a major movement, particularly in California, to make medicinal marijuana readily available to individuals via medicinal marijuana stores. California medicinal marijuana dispensaries and medicinal marijuana clinics, many of which are run by medicinal marijuana collectives and marijuana physicians, seek to make medicinal marijuana accessible to patients with medical weed cards that legally permit them to obtain healthcare marijuana strains to treat a variety of illnesses. Healthcare marijuana is truly becoming a herb for the healing of the nation.
