Can the consumption of products derived from cannabis be a remedy and a means of prevention for a large number of chronic diseases?
The answer to this question was already answered miles of years ago. By the Ayurvedic sages of India, who considered cannabis one of their five sacred plants.
Tradition that was transmitted orally, Ayurveda – the oldest known medicinal science -. Began to register more than 5,000 years ago, in Sanskrit, in the four sacred texts called Vedas. Ayur is life, veda is knowledge, Ayurveda literally means “science of life”. And yes, Ayurvedic theory states that all areas of life have an impact on health. It is a holistic practice or method designed to harmonize all the forces that govern and integrate the body, the senses, the mind and the spirit. That has been proven for millennia to be effective in combating and curing ailments and disorders of the body.
Marijuana, known as vijaya or siddhi, is indicated for many things. As a treatment for mental illnesses, skin infections, hypertension, glaucoma, and acts as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, healing, stimulant of the digestive and nervous system, or even as an aphrodisiac. The entire plant – flowers, leaves, stems, roots and seeds – is used. It is prepared and administered in various ways. The most common being a kind of resin or hash with the name of charas and with great narcotic properties. Still considering its innumerable benefits, Ayurvedic prescriptions also warn us about its continued and abusive consumption. It can encourage the confused intellect or pragya-aparadh and unbalances the forces inherent to the body brutalizing the soul. It is a healing element, not a substance for recess.
CBD since Ayurveda
The teachings of Ayurveda are an outstanding, demonstrable and current testimony of the many applications of cannabis in modern medicine. Specifically CBD or cannabidiol for its non-intoxicating properties. This compound has a restorative function in the body, acting in synergy with its natural functions, and in regulated therapeutic doses it can help to increase attention and alertness or promote relaxation to achieve balance.
Numerous scientific tests have shown that CBD is an effective remedy to combat chronic diseases such as depression, sleep disorders, anxiety, pain or epilepsy. Diseases for which conventional medicine prescribes “addictive” or creates dependency – consumed by more than 30% of the world’s population – and the results simply suppress the symptoms but do not act in the body in an integral way to combat and cure the origin of the disease.
A promising horizon
However, today the symbiosis between two growing trends allows us to draw a very promising horizon. As regards the prevention and cure of a large number of chronic diseases. The boom is happening in the search for alternative treatments versus those offered by conventional allopathic medicine. More integrative and less aggressive for the body, such as Ayurveda. And secondly, the growing legalization of both consumption and production of cannabis. With the consequent development of products, technologies and new applications of one of the most profitable industries in recent years.
