Medical Marijuana Research Helps In Neuropathic Pain
Recent studies done by scientist has shown medical marijuana can alleviate a condition called chronic pain syndrome which is a burning sensation that occurs when a slight touch of something can feel like a wound.
chronic pain syndrome is unique because the condition is unaffected by aspirin type drugs and is extremely 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.
They then had the patients 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.
Participants smoked medical marijuana on a set schedule — first 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.
Prior to smoking medical marijuana the average rating of pain was around 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 smoke.
It is quite normal for analgesic drugs are often tested against experimentally induced pain. Such studies have been conducted for medical marijuana too.
One such example of this is when 15 healthy volunteers received skin injections with capsaicin as was published in 2007 in the journal Anesthesiology.
the chemical behind that fiery spice in chile peppers is capsaicin; the group then smoked different-strength medical marijuana cigarettes.
The medium dose, with a 4% THC concentration, lessened the burning pain.
All studies concluded that smoked marijuana can bring relief to sufferers of neuropathic pain comparable to other analgesic drugs.
As with all pain pills you have to keep taking it to continue gaining the benefits.
