Nature's Pharmacy: Ancient Knowledge, Modern Medicine (Gout)
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History
More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient pharmacopeias of China listed marijuana. It was used to alleviate pain, induce sleep, and soothe nervous disorders. Marijuana was used to treat inflammations of the eye and "to cool the uterus" in ancient Egypt. First records of marijuana's use in India date back to about 800 B.C.E., when it was recommended for congestion. Marijuana also appears in the 1st century C.E. Chinese medical work, Divine Husbandman's Classic, where it was described as a treatment for "female weakness, gout, rheumatism, beri-beri, constipation, absentmindedness and malaria." By the 3rd century C.E., patients were advised to consume the leaves whole or in an infusion to relieve pain during surgery. Medieval physicians prescribed the root to relieve the agonies of gout and other painful diseases. Mixed with oil and butter, the root was used as a salve to treat burns from the newly introduced gunpowder. During the 19th century the plant was a standard painkiller for menstrual cramps.
Botanical: Cannabis sativa (LINN.) Family: N.O. Urticaceae
www.botanical.com/botanic...ind22.html
---Medicinal Action and Uses---The principal use of Hemp in medicine is for easing pain and inducing sleep, and for a soothing influence in nervous disorders. It does not cause constipation nor affect the appetite like opium. It is useful in neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, delirium tremens, insanity, infantile convulsions, insomnia, etc.
Also see Hemp, Enc. Britannica, 1856
www.botanical.com/botanic...mp22a.html
Botanical search: www.botanical.com/cgi-bin...cal-search
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Legalization of Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes
www.louisville.edu/a-s/en...es/48.html
marijuana has many medicinal uses that date back all the way to about 4000 B.C. where the Chinese first discovered its medicinal uses. In a pharmacy book written by the emperor Shen-Nung about 2657 B.C., he recommends marijuana as a cure for "gout, rheumatism, malaria, beriberi, constipation, and absent mindedness (Stwerka 5).
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Is pot good for you?
www.mpp.org/NV/news_2116.html
What we know is that healers have accumulated copious anecdotes on weed's powers over the past 4,700 years. Understanding Marijuana author Earleywine credits a (possibly mythical) Chinese emperor with introducing the plant as a treatment for gout around 2700 B.C.
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The History of Marijuana In The U.S.
marijuana.drug-culture.co...istory.asp
The United Stated Pharmacopeaia recognized marijuana for its medicinal value as early as 1850. It was used to treat lack of appetite, gout, migraines, pain, hysteria, depression, rheumatism and many other illnesses.
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Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy (2000)
Institute of Medicine (IOM)
www.nap.edu/books/0309065...index.html
www.nap.edu/books/0309065...ml/13.html
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Google: Gout Marijuana
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Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine
www.rxmarihuana.com
Q. Dear Dr. Grinspoon,
www.rxmarihuana.com/moreq&a.htm
My father, 68 years old, on Feb. 20th, 2001, went to have gallbladder surgery, and the doctors discovered he has terminal abdominal cancer. They gave him few months to live. He has history of 2 heart attacks, gout, in the past. Would cannabis aggravate his heart condition? Severe pain, depression, poor appetite are expected. Do you think cannabis would be a good choice if prescribed medications do not work? Thanks so much for your advice.......(God bless you).
Gloria
A Dear Gloria,
I am sorry to be so tardy in responding to your question but the Web manager of this site was delayed in sending your letter on to me. On the one hand, I would be cautious about introducing cannabis to a marijuana-naive person of your father's age. Yet, given the severity of his prognosis and the likelihood that cannabis might afford him some relief, you may wish to cautiously explore the possibility that it may be useful to him. If you decide to use cannabis, it might be well for you to let him have one puff and then wait two to three minutes before offering him the next puff until he either becomes uncomfortable or gets symptom relief. I do not think it would "aggravate his heart condition" but you might be well advised to talk to his cardiologist about this. Sincerely yours,
Lester Grinspoon MD
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Q. Dear Dr. Grinspoon,
I have been suffering from gout on and off for years. I am 35 years old, not typically the age for gout, but nevertheless suffer very painful attacks. Has marijuana ever been known to help relieve the symptoms of gout?
A. Dear Anonymous,
Marijuana, in the form of an alcoholic solution known as tincture of hemp, was used in the nineteenth century as a symptomatic treatment for gout. Because it was one of the very few analgesics available to physicians of that time, it was used for the symptomatic treatment of a variety of pains including that of gout.
Sincerely yours,
Lester Grinspoon MD
* (this is another extraction. Three general methods are alcohol, oil and fat. I've also heard of an either method but not for kitchen extractions. Alcohol can also be a dangerous fire hazard. I use the milk and butter fat and simmer. Using alcohol is usually done cold except for concentrating hashoil. Simply put the buds in some high proof booze a while and it will turn greenish. I prefer the other extractions but it works.)
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Q. Dear Dr. Grinspoon,
www.rxmarihuana.com/q&a.htm
I am a 25yr male living in Oregon. .I am a patient of Kaiser Permanente. I originally started using marijuana recreationally 6 years ago while in college on the east coast. It didn't take long for me to realize that marijuana was giving me little or no problem with my chronic and very painful gout. Prescribed meds had unpleasant side effects. I was diagnosed with gout at age 16. At age 12 I was diagnosed with/ an ultra rare neurological disorder called pseudotumor cerebri.. Doctors said if it had gone on as much as 48 hours longer, I would have died. It happened that my pediatrician had failed to see any signs of the disorder, and to this day find myself more educated on PTC than most of my doctors. Two years ago I started having flare-ups in pseudotumor cerebrii, and again had problems with man-made drugs that had unpleasant side effects. At about the same time I was diagnosed with cysts on the cornea, and soon afterward severe optic neuropathy. I have good days and I have days.
1-I have heard rumors that the Kaiser Permanente has strict guidelines for all their doctors regarding medical marijuana. Is there any truth to this?
2- Which doctor should I approach with/ the marijuana issue-- my primary care doctor or one of my specialists?
3- What literature out there suggests that my ailments can be helped, cured, or improved upon with the use of marijuana?
4- Specifically w/ the gout I have changed my diet by totally eliminating beer and beef. These were the major culprits of the painful gout. My question is how THC affects uric acid levels in the bloodstream? Is this known at all?
Thank you; you are a godsend for many,
Shilo in Oregon
A. Dear Shilo,
Cannabis may be useful in relieving the pain of gout, but I do not know whether it has an effect on the blood level of uric acid. As for the possibility that marijuana may be useful in the symptomatic treatment of pseudotumor cerebri, I suggest that you read the short section that we wrote on this syndrome in the second edition of Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine (Yale University Press, 1997). Sincerely yours,
Lester Grinspoon MD
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Comments and Observations
www.rxmarihuana.com/comme...ations.htm
Arthritis by Matt Glandorf
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...ritis4.htm
Arthritis by Harry Clayman
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...ritis3.htm
Osteoarthritis by Anonymous
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...ritis2.htm
Rheumatoid Arthritis by Luna
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...ritis2.htm
Traumatic Arthritis by Anonymous
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...hritis.htm
Osteoarthritis by Bob Burrill
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...hritis.htm
Rheumatoid Arthritis
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...hritis.htm
Ask Dr. Grinspoon
www.rxmarihuana.com/exchange.htm#form
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No smoke...
100 ML milk * (Of the three or 4 extraction methods I prefer this one)
tad butter
gram female ganja flowertop
simmer 10-15 low heat/ do not boil.
take in teaspoon dosages.
5 ml = 1 t
Ganja-Recipes.
www.marijuana-recipes.co.uk
Google: marijuana recipes
makeashorterlink.com/?Y19352F26
Google: Bhang ganja drinks
makeashorterlink.com/?L2A352F26
Welcome to the Home of the Marijuana Vaporizer
www.marijuanavaporizer.com
Researchers Aim to Develop Marijuana Without the High
After 10 years of searching, University of Mississippi Professor Mahmoud El Sohly thinks he has a new way to quiet opponents of marijuana as medicine: a pot suppository. www.cannabis.net/potsup
Google marijuana suppositories: makeashorterlink.com/?R1D312F26
makeashorterlink.com/?D26532036
History
More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient pharmacopeias of China listed marijuana. It was used to alleviate pain, induce sleep, and soothe nervous disorders. Marijuana was used to treat inflammations of the eye and "to cool the uterus" in ancient Egypt. First records of marijuana's use in India date back to about 800 B.C.E., when it was recommended for congestion. Marijuana also appears in the 1st century C.E. Chinese medical work, Divine Husbandman's Classic, where it was described as a treatment for "female weakness, gout, rheumatism, beri-beri, constipation, absentmindedness and malaria." By the 3rd century C.E., patients were advised to consume the leaves whole or in an infusion to relieve pain during surgery. Medieval physicians prescribed the root to relieve the agonies of gout and other painful diseases. Mixed with oil and butter, the root was used as a salve to treat burns from the newly introduced gunpowder. During the 19th century the plant was a standard painkiller for menstrual cramps.
Botanical: Cannabis sativa (LINN.) Family: N.O. Urticaceae
www.botanical.com/botanic...ind22.html
---Medicinal Action and Uses---The principal use of Hemp in medicine is for easing pain and inducing sleep, and for a soothing influence in nervous disorders. It does not cause constipation nor affect the appetite like opium. It is useful in neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, delirium tremens, insanity, infantile convulsions, insomnia, etc.
Also see Hemp, Enc. Britannica, 1856
www.botanical.com/botanic...mp22a.html
Botanical search: www.botanical.com/cgi-bin...cal-search
****************************
Legalization of Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes
www.louisville.edu/a-s/en...es/48.html
marijuana has many medicinal uses that date back all the way to about 4000 B.C. where the Chinese first discovered its medicinal uses. In a pharmacy book written by the emperor Shen-Nung about 2657 B.C., he recommends marijuana as a cure for "gout, rheumatism, malaria, beriberi, constipation, and absent mindedness (Stwerka 5).
****************************
Is pot good for you?
www.mpp.org/NV/news_2116.html
What we know is that healers have accumulated copious anecdotes on weed's powers over the past 4,700 years. Understanding Marijuana author Earleywine credits a (possibly mythical) Chinese emperor with introducing the plant as a treatment for gout around 2700 B.C.
****************************
The History of Marijuana In The U.S.
marijuana.drug-culture.co...istory.asp
The United Stated Pharmacopeaia recognized marijuana for its medicinal value as early as 1850. It was used to treat lack of appetite, gout, migraines, pain, hysteria, depression, rheumatism and many other illnesses.
****************************
Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy (2000)
Institute of Medicine (IOM)
www.nap.edu/books/0309065...index.html
www.nap.edu/books/0309065...ml/13.html
****************************
Google: Gout Marijuana
makeashorterlink.com/?E18322F26
****************************
Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine
www.rxmarihuana.com
Q. Dear Dr. Grinspoon,
www.rxmarihuana.com/moreq&a.htm
My father, 68 years old, on Feb. 20th, 2001, went to have gallbladder surgery, and the doctors discovered he has terminal abdominal cancer. They gave him few months to live. He has history of 2 heart attacks, gout, in the past. Would cannabis aggravate his heart condition? Severe pain, depression, poor appetite are expected. Do you think cannabis would be a good choice if prescribed medications do not work? Thanks so much for your advice.......(God bless you).
Gloria
A Dear Gloria,
I am sorry to be so tardy in responding to your question but the Web manager of this site was delayed in sending your letter on to me. On the one hand, I would be cautious about introducing cannabis to a marijuana-naive person of your father's age. Yet, given the severity of his prognosis and the likelihood that cannabis might afford him some relief, you may wish to cautiously explore the possibility that it may be useful to him. If you decide to use cannabis, it might be well for you to let him have one puff and then wait two to three minutes before offering him the next puff until he either becomes uncomfortable or gets symptom relief. I do not think it would "aggravate his heart condition" but you might be well advised to talk to his cardiologist about this. Sincerely yours,
Lester Grinspoon MD
****************************
Q. Dear Dr. Grinspoon,
I have been suffering from gout on and off for years. I am 35 years old, not typically the age for gout, but nevertheless suffer very painful attacks. Has marijuana ever been known to help relieve the symptoms of gout?
A. Dear Anonymous,
Marijuana, in the form of an alcoholic solution known as tincture of hemp, was used in the nineteenth century as a symptomatic treatment for gout. Because it was one of the very few analgesics available to physicians of that time, it was used for the symptomatic treatment of a variety of pains including that of gout.
Sincerely yours,
Lester Grinspoon MD
* (this is another extraction. Three general methods are alcohol, oil and fat. I've also heard of an either method but not for kitchen extractions. Alcohol can also be a dangerous fire hazard. I use the milk and butter fat and simmer. Using alcohol is usually done cold except for concentrating hashoil. Simply put the buds in some high proof booze a while and it will turn greenish. I prefer the other extractions but it works.)
****************************
Q. Dear Dr. Grinspoon,
www.rxmarihuana.com/q&a.htm
I am a 25yr male living in Oregon. .I am a patient of Kaiser Permanente. I originally started using marijuana recreationally 6 years ago while in college on the east coast. It didn't take long for me to realize that marijuana was giving me little or no problem with my chronic and very painful gout. Prescribed meds had unpleasant side effects. I was diagnosed with gout at age 16. At age 12 I was diagnosed with/ an ultra rare neurological disorder called pseudotumor cerebri.. Doctors said if it had gone on as much as 48 hours longer, I would have died. It happened that my pediatrician had failed to see any signs of the disorder, and to this day find myself more educated on PTC than most of my doctors. Two years ago I started having flare-ups in pseudotumor cerebrii, and again had problems with man-made drugs that had unpleasant side effects. At about the same time I was diagnosed with cysts on the cornea, and soon afterward severe optic neuropathy. I have good days and I have days.
1-I have heard rumors that the Kaiser Permanente has strict guidelines for all their doctors regarding medical marijuana. Is there any truth to this?
2- Which doctor should I approach with/ the marijuana issue-- my primary care doctor or one of my specialists?
3- What literature out there suggests that my ailments can be helped, cured, or improved upon with the use of marijuana?
4- Specifically w/ the gout I have changed my diet by totally eliminating beer and beef. These were the major culprits of the painful gout. My question is how THC affects uric acid levels in the bloodstream? Is this known at all?
Thank you; you are a godsend for many,
Shilo in Oregon
A. Dear Shilo,
Cannabis may be useful in relieving the pain of gout, but I do not know whether it has an effect on the blood level of uric acid. As for the possibility that marijuana may be useful in the symptomatic treatment of pseudotumor cerebri, I suggest that you read the short section that we wrote on this syndrome in the second edition of Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine (Yale University Press, 1997). Sincerely yours,
Lester Grinspoon MD
****************************
Comments and Observations
www.rxmarihuana.com/comme...ations.htm
Arthritis by Matt Glandorf
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...ritis4.htm
Arthritis by Harry Clayman
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...ritis3.htm
Osteoarthritis by Anonymous
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...ritis2.htm
Rheumatoid Arthritis by Luna
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...ritis2.htm
Traumatic Arthritis by Anonymous
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...hritis.htm
Osteoarthritis by Bob Burrill
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...hritis.htm
Rheumatoid Arthritis
www.rxmarihuana.com/share...hritis.htm
Ask Dr. Grinspoon
www.rxmarihuana.com/exchange.htm#form
****************************
No smoke...
100 ML milk * (Of the three or 4 extraction methods I prefer this one)
tad butter
gram female ganja flowertop
simmer 10-15 low heat/ do not boil.
take in teaspoon dosages.
5 ml = 1 t
Ganja-Recipes.
www.marijuana-recipes.co.uk
Google: marijuana recipes
makeashorterlink.com/?Y19352F26
Google: Bhang ganja drinks
makeashorterlink.com/?L2A352F26
Welcome to the Home of the Marijuana Vaporizer
www.marijuanavaporizer.com
Researchers Aim to Develop Marijuana Without the High
After 10 years of searching, University of Mississippi Professor Mahmoud El Sohly thinks he has a new way to quiet opponents of marijuana as medicine: a pot suppository. www.cannabis.net/potsup
Google marijuana suppositories: makeashorterlink.com/?R1D312F26
