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The Health Effects of Cannabis: The Digestive System

Healer

Cannabis has broad effects in the digestive system, including increasing appetite, reducing nausea and vomiting, inhibiting acid secretion, relaxing smooth muscle, decreasing pain, decreasing inflammation, and decreasing motility, thereby relieving cramps and diarrhea.

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Cannabinoids: Everything You Should Know

Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

However, with the ongoing debate about the benefits and drawbacks of cannabinoids and other cannabis compounds , it can seem as if cannabis is an emerging trend. Cannabinoid Recognition. The medical field first began recognizing the benefits of the cannabinoid compounds within cannabis in 1850. What Are Cannabinoids?

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Cannabis and Constipation: What are the Benefits?

United Patients Group

Despite its known impact on slowing down the digestive system, recent research suggests that cannabis remains an effective remedy for constipation. Derived from the cannabis sativa plant, cannabis is categorized as a cannabinoid capable of activating receptors in the body, including those in the gut.

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Cannabinoids Could Limit Brain Injury Damage, Researchers Say

The Cannigma

Inhibition of MAGL using cannabinoids. When these immune cells stay activated for too long, they begin a harmful inflammation cycle where they start to digest healthy brain tissue, promote further inflammation, and damage wider parts of the brain. MAGL, or monoacylglycerol lipase, metabolizes endocannabinoids such as 2-AG.

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An introduction to cannabinoids: Everything you need to know

Canna Care Docs

The answer involves the many compounds, called cannabinoids, that occur naturally in the cannabis plant. Most are familiar with THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol), the two most studied cannabinoids due to their prevalence—the rarer a cannabinoid, the more difficult it is to isolate. Major cannabinoids: THC and CBD.

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Biggest Benefits of Cannabis You May Be Missing Out On: Acidic Cannabinoids (CBDA / CBGA / THCA)

Healer

While the focus has been on neutral cannabinoids, new research –and my own clinical observations– indicate that cannabinoids in their original, acidic form possess incredible healing properties that work both together with and different from their neutral counterparts. What are Acidic Cannabinoids?

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InBOLD Inc. Announces Issuance of a New Patent on Cannabinoid Composition and Delivery System

Cannabis Law Report

Patent 16/424,351, a Cannabinoid Composition and Method of Sublingual, Buccal, and Oral Mucosa Delivery. This patent focuses on a formulation that includes a cannabinoid extract that is pharmaceutically effective by systemic delivery to the recipient’s oral mucosal lining. is a women-led cannabinoid health science company.