What Cannabis Topical Balms Are Used For

CBD Oil Balm

Cannabis topicals are applied to the skin for direct application to the treatment area. Creams and balms can penetrate through the skin and body tissue. Patients use creams for treatment in arthritis, allergic skin reactions, post herpes neuralgia, muscle strains, inflammation and swelling. Topicals offer a non-phycho active medicine to the patient.

Research is limited on the many uses of cannabis topicals. Patients have been reported using topicals for many treatments including:

• Arthritis

• Dermatitis and psoriasis

• Wounds and cuts

• Muscle Pain

• Hemorrhoids

• Sore throat, bronchitis

• Menstrual cramping

• Glaucoma

• herpes, blisters and lip aid

• pain from sprains and breaks

• headaches

• breathing problems

Lotions and balms offer localized treatment to the targeted area. The cannabinoids work by targeting CB1 and CB2 receptors that are found all over the body including the skin. Most patients use this method for it's anti-inflammatory and pain relieving effects. Cannabis topicals often use a base of hemp oil which is rich in Omega 3 and 6. These essential fatty acids are beneficial for the health of your skin.

Source:

http://www.safeaccessnow.org/using_medical_cannabis

http://www.leafly.com/news/products/what-are-topicals-anyway-a-tour-of-a-manufacturing-lab

The Benefits of Cannabigerol (CBG)

  Cannabigerol CBG is a cannabinoid in marijuana that has medicinal properties. Found in low concentrations in many strains of cannabis it is often overlooked. CBG works in conjunction with THC to tone down the paranoia feeling.(Source) Alone it aids in treatment to depression, tumors, inflammatory bowel disease, glaucoma, bacteria infections, high blood pressure, reduce blood clotting, anxiety and muscle tension.

   Research has proven many treatments from Cannabigerol. Here is a list of the numerous benefits of CBG:

Depression: GW Pharma has a patent for the use of Cannabigerol CBG to treat clinical depression.(Source)

Cancer \Tumors: New research this year has shown that CBG reduces cancer cells and tumors in the colon.(Source)

Inflammatory Bowel Disease: CBG reduced inflammation and over-production of nitric oxide which can lead to sustained IBD.(Source)

Glaucoma: CBG shows promising treatment for glaucoma by relieving ocular pressure. More importantly CBG showed 2-3 times the benefit of eye drainage than other medicines.(Source)

Bacterial Infections: Bacterial infections have been treated including MRSA.(Source)

Reduce Heart Rate and Blood Clotting: Has shown as a proven treatment for the way it reduces platelet aggregation.(Source)

Anxiety and Muscle Tension: CBG is able to treate with it's ability to inhibit GABA production.(Source)

Cannabis initially starts with creating cannabinoid cannabigerolic acid (CBGa). This is typically broken down with exposure to air and UV light into THCa, CBDa or CBCa. If it remains as CBGa, then it will convert to CBG when heated. Some industrial strains retain the CBGa with as much as a 94% concentration. It is thought this strain has a recessive gene that doesn't allow the conversion to the THCa, CBDa or CBCa. Currently some growers are using this knowledge to create strains rich in CBG like the Mickey Kush Strain.

Source:

http://www.medicaljane.com/2013/08/03/cannabigerol-cbg-is-a-minor-cannabinoid-with-major-impact/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25269802

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006295213000543

http://www.google.com/patents/CA2655094C?cl=en

http://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Therapeutics-HIV-AIDS-Journal/dp/0789016990/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418758497&sr=1-1&keywords=9780789016997

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2042-7158.1989.tb06345.x/abstract

Did Jesus Use Cannabis

OUTCO welcomes all religions and we hope to continue to investigate the history of the usage of cannabis throughout many religions and different time periods playing a role in society.

Lost in translation has kept many historians from having a definitive explanation of the biblical passages that may have been talking about cannabis. There are reasons to believe that cannabis was the healing and anointing oil rich in CBD that is talked about in the Bible. There is also skeptics who believe that the translation was correct, and cannabis was not referenced in the Bible. Hemp has been grown since 6000BC and was around and prevalent in the time of Christ. Some of the miracles Jesus preformed are also similar to treatments for cannabis including skin diseases, glaucoma, neurodegenerative conditions and multiple sclerosis.

An error was thought to have occurred in the third century BC oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. The translation put the word as calamus, which Benet believes is a common marsh plant with no value and doesn't go along with the importance it was given in the Bible. This word calamus was mistranslated five times in the Old Testament, Exodus, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Song of Songs.

In 1936 Sula Benet, a Polish etymologist proclaimed that the word cannabis is much older than the first thought Scythian origin, and believes it to be from Semitic Hebrew language, appearing throughout the Old Testament. Benet points out that in the testament it is described as incense, part of religious celebration, and an intoxicant. Benet went on to show that the word in the Old Testament, Kannabus or kaneh-bosm, broken down where Kan meant “reed” or “hemp” and bosm meaning “aromatic”.(Source) 

Exodus 30:22 – 25 talks about the recipe Lord gave Moses for healing oil:

“Moreover, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.”(Source)

Another theory to speak to the importance of the anointing with oil for the religion is brought out in the Book of Philip, which is a book that is part of The Nag Hammadi Library not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. One of the passages states:

“The chrism is superior to baptism, for it is from the word "Chrism" that we have been called "Christians," certainly not because of the word "baptism". And it is because of the chrism that "the Christ" has his name. For the Father anointed the Son, and the Son anointed the apostles, and the apostles anointed us. He who has been anointed possesses everything. He possesses the resurrection, the light, the cross, the Holy Spirit. The Father gave him this in the bridal chamber; he merely accepted (the gift). The Father was in the Son and the Son in the Father. This is the Kingdom of Heaven.”(Source)

All of this evidence is compelling, including the Lytton John Musselman, a Professor of Botany at Old Dominion University believes the translation has always been correct with the calamus plant. He points out that calamus is used as an herbal remedy. He notes, “In Sri Lanka it is available in any herbal remedy shop and also universally grown in home gardens. (Source) 

Source:

http://www.vice.com/read/did-jesus-perform-his-miracles-with-cannabis-oil

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gop.html

biblehub.com/exodus/30-22.htm

The Benefits of Cannabis for Glaucoma Treatment

Glaucoma is conditions in the eye that damages the optic nerve and can lead to blindness. The optic nerve carries visual information to the brain. Damage to the nerve is primarily caused by an increase of pressure to the eye, called intraocular pressure (IOP).(Source)

Cannabinoids found in cannabis have been successfully found to reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) and have neuroprotective properties. Helper and Frank in 1971 did a study that showed a 25-30% IOP and a reduction in blood pressure.(Source) An increase in usage of marijuana led to better tolerance, resulting a further reduction of IOP for patients that could take a higher dosage. (Source) A study by Dawson et al showed that long term use of marijuana of 10 years or more gave results as beginning users for reducing IOP, lowering the effectivness.(Source)

Studies have shown that cannabinoids work to reduce IOP at the localized eye area, not the central nervous system. Topical applications around the eye of cannabinoids show to reduce IOP the same amount as smoke or ingested. (Source) Cannabinoids effect the CB1 receptors, and these have been found in the ocular tissues, ciliary epithelium, the trabecular meshwork, Schlemm’s canal, ciliary muscle, ciliary body vessels, and retina. (Source) Cannabinoids also effect the CB2 receptors, but a study found that these receptors played no role in the IOP.(source)

Other theories about how cannabis reducing IOP have been researched, but not fully understood. The reduction of IOP does not seem to be from smoking cannabis resulting in lowering of the blood pressure.(Source) Studies have proposed however that the reduction in capillary pressure helps to reduce IOP. (Source) Sugrue did a study that showed that cannabinoids reduce the release of calcium which can help reduce IOP. (Source) Porcella et al also has a theory that cannabinoids acting as vasodilators by widening the blood vessels help to release the pressure on the eye. (Source)

Application of Cannabis for desired treatment of glaucoma has shown to be through smoking it, however for a non psychoactive method topical treatments are being developed. Unfortunately eye drops only deliver 5% of the medicine, due to the optical nerve being at the back of the eye. Other delivery methods are being researched with Porcella et al showing that cyclodextrins being the most effective thus far.(Source)

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Source:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002587/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1772142/