Brian asked if Dharmanol will be effective against other conditions where cannabis medicine has been shown to be of benefit. Here is my answer:
Hi Brian,
That's the beauty of cannabis medicine. It works so well on so many things. And the research is there to prove it. I don't know of single study that was done to question another researcher's work that found any fault. Even government studies designed to prove that cannabis causes cancer turned up the opposite results. (Google Dr. Donald Tashkin UCLA).
Dharmanol in small doses works mostly by "tuning up" the body's own endo-cannabinoid system, which regulates and controlls many other internal systems. Cannabinoid medicine in larger doses works in several different manners. Malignant cells are killed while adjacent healthy cells are strengthened. Healthy cells are induced to die on schedule (apoptosis), and the rate that cancer spreads (metastasizes) is greatly limited.
Cannabis in huge doses works as a direct poison to the malignant cells. rats that had been implanted with incurable - in humans - brain cancer tumors had their cancer eliminated completely by direct irrigation with THC. Every rat in a large group recovered ... after they woke up!
But, in general, we believe that, in most cases, Dharmanol-based medicines will have the same medicinal efficacy as other cannabis medicines, in similar doses, against similar medical conditions. We are working hard on developing a line of condition-specific natural treatments containing non-psychoactive phyto-cannabinoids, and other elements of cannabis/hemp, in conjunction with other natural herbs and supplements.
Thanks very much, Brian.
Dave
PS I should add the obvious. There are conditions where the direct effects of THC are the sought after medicinal effect. For example, pain control. Anxiety relief in some circumstances. Inducement of sleep in insomnia. Inducement of munchies, perhaps, in anorexia or wasting syndrome? That will take some thought and testing.
