How to use CBD due to arthritis and joint pains
If you depend on synthetic painkillers and pills, this article is for you: it is time to say goodbye to the pharmacy. Read further and you will find out how to ideally cure and cope with joint pains with the help of marijuana use, hemp oil, ointment, etc.
What is CBD?
Let´s begin with the basics. You have probably already heard about THC but have you heard about CBD? On the contrary of THC which is a psychoactive compound and the main factor responsible for being “zonked out”, CBD does not have psychoactive effects and it provides help to those who suffer from pains instead. In reality, on the basis of Californian non-governmental organization Project CBD which focuses on promotion and publishing research in the field of medical uses of cannabidiol (CBD), the use of CBD goes far beyond simple pain relief. Scientific and clinical research – generally sponsored by the US government underlines the potential CBD as a treatment for a wide range of issues, including arthritis, diabetes, alcoholism, MS, chronic pains, schizophrenia, PTSD, depression, infections resistant to antibiotics, epilepsy and more neurological disorders.
How CBD relieves from joint pains
Watch a video on Youtube called “Nate Diaz Vapes Marijuana (CBD) at UFC 202 Press Conference”. After a brutal fight against UFC legend Conor McGregor, bloodied Nate Diaz used a vaporizer at the press conference. He stated: “It's CBD. It helps with a healing process and inflammation.” Although Nate does not have rheumatoid arthritis but if someone can confirm that CBD relieves pain, it is definitely a battered person after the fight with the most popular fighters in the world.
CBD influences immune system which naturally helps due to autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis – and the science does not lie. A study published in the magazine Rheumatology by Dr Sheng-Ming Daie from the second Chinese medical university discovered that receptors CB2 can be found in unusually high levels in joint tissues of patients with arthritis. It is proved that hemp use fights against inflammation in joints by tracking the activation of CB2 receptors.
But it is not only CBD which can give a hand. Jahan Marcu, Ph. D., Senior Research Fellow at Americans for Safe Access, a medical cannabis legalization organization, says that chronic pain is a sign of rheumatoid arthritis, and if it concerns chronic pain, we have data about 9 000 patients who show that THC effectively cures this pain. He also says that cannabinoids cease transmission of pain and mitigate the inflammatory processes, and it is very important for people with joint problems. On the basic level, THC is anti-inflammatory and analgesic (painkiller) and it is also known that it reduces anxiety and depression which arrive with the disease (especially with diseases that cause loss of mobility, such as rheumatoid arthritis). Have you read about, how smoking weed can cause patients with ongoing fits of spasms relief? On the basis of similar principles, people with chronic pain and stiff joints can reach the point when their body is naturally relieved due to cannabis use.
All these scientific studies basically confirm one of the key principles of curative marijuana, which means that non-psychoactive CBD does miracles in those who suffer from joint pains.
Vaporization, tinctures and ointments
Marijuana is not a drug of the future it is a drug of the past. People have used marijuana as a resource for relief from pain for thousands of years. Gooey Rabinski, writing about cannabis, says that until the dawn of 20th century was weed – therefore in the form of tinctures, not smoked – the primary treatment of pain in the USA. A hundred years ago, when a little girl scraped a knee, she received a cannabis tincture, not orange and white aspirin from Bayer.
THC has been omnipresent but the encounter with CBD in the past was harder. In the current golden age of cannabis culture (on condition that you live in a state with legal medical and/or recreational marijuana), is CBD easily accessible for vaporization, application in the form of ointment or using in the form of tinctures, oils, capsules and snacks. Here are some tips on how to enter into this beautiful world of CBD:
5 tips to relieve from joint pains by using CBD:
Start with the vaporization
This is the easiest way how to absorb CBD.
Apply ointment
Similarly as tiger ointment, also CBD helps to relieve from pain caused by joints and muscles. Today, you can commonly buy ointments designed directly for relief from joint pains.
Try different varieties
Sativa, indica and hybrid, they all have their strong and weak features. Try different varieties, as you do with wine, and find out what functions for you. You will be surprised by the results of strains with high levels of CBD – relaxing with relieving effect which is a blessing for everyone who suffers from sore muscles and painful joints.
Try tincture
There is nothing more traditional than this method of cannabis use that people have depended on for thousands of years. Therefore it is a very old-fashioned way, it is still unbelievably effective and it is one of our favourites – tinctures can be a key into a kingdom of oblivion for your joint pains.
CBD on the road
One thing is clear: for those who suffer from chronic joint pains, the word chronic means long-term. Give CBD a chance and you will probably fall in love with its effects. We count on CBD after every day of skiing, hiking with a backpack or sports training – there is not any better natural relief from pain and relaxation.