Cannabis Found To Be Beneficial In Providing Relief From Nerve Pain

The benefits of marijuana for patients suffering from nerve pain was detailed in a review of research on the topic, according to Marijuana Moment.

The research, published last month in the journal Cureus, covered thousands of papers that have been conducted.  It found that treatment with cannabinoids offers significant relief from chronic pain with minimal to no side effects.

“The positive effects of cannabinoids in pain management are clear and their merit in the treatment thereof is evident,” the research stated.  The authors added cannabinoids treatment resulted in more pain relief than random placebo control studies.

“Compared to placebo, cannabinoids provided significant relief from chronic pain (33% vs 15%) as measured by the visual analog scale,” the paper says. “The transdermal application of CBD led to a more pronounced reduction in sharp pain, according to the neuropathic pain scale.”

Furthermore, the research pointed to the advantages of the natural properties of cannabinoids over traditional pharmaceutics.

“The potential benefit of cannabinoids is that they are naturally derived drugs that have already been shown to have the potential to effectively decrease chronic pain with minimal side effects as compared to the standard drugs being used,” the review concludes. “The ability of cannabinoids to provide pain relief with minimal side effects and concurrently be a naturally derived product may potentially be a life-changing alternative that the pharmaceutical market is in dire need of.”  The authors called for larger scale clinical trials to help establish medical cannabis as a treatment option for chronic pain.

The research examined neuropathic pain, caused by damage to or dysfunction of the nervous system and often associated with conditions such as diabetes, HIV/AIDS, shingles, multiple sclerosis and side-effects from certain pharmaceutical drugs or radiation therapy.

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