A physician-formulated combination of Turmeric, Astragalus, and other botanical and mushroom-derived ingredients is showing promise as a potential natural therapy for women with breast cancer.
Cannabidiol (CBD) lowers seizure frequency in children with a difficult-to-treat form of epilepsy, according to new data published last spring in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A novel botanical combination that includes extracts of Coleus forskohlii, Salacia reticulata, and sesame, can limit the absorption of excess dietary fats, p, according to the results of a study published in the Journal of Functional Foods.
Could cannabis be the solution to America’s opioid overdose epidemic? Mounting evidence indicates that medical marijuana may help save lives by reducing prescription painkiller misuse.
In recent years, spending on prescription anti-inflammatory medications has increased dramatically. Unfortunately, it’s become clear that the price paid doesn’t end with the drugs themselves; the side effects they cause — which can range from fatigue and pain to severe infections — are very costly.
In recent years, both an upsurge in medical cannabis research and also changes in the plant’s legal status in many US states have led health practitioners and patients alike to shift their views of cannabis from goofy recreatinal drug to serious medicine.
According to research published earlier this year in The Lancet Neurology, cannabidiol — a compound found in marijuana — may help lower the frequency of seizures in young patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy.
“Misplaced fear” about herb-drug interactions is keeping many practitioners from recommending potentially beneficial botanical medicines, said Josephine Briggs, MD, director of the NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).
Whatever your personal, political or professional stance on the issue, the reality is that medical marijuana is in your state, soon-to-be in your state, or coming to a state near you very soon. Clinicians around the nation are trying to figure out if cannabis is, indeed, “real” medicine.
Just weeks after ordering big-box giants Walmart, GNC, Target, and Walgreen’s to stop selling some of their “store-brand” herbal supplements, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman furthered his assault on herbal products by ordering major manufacturers to turn over data on the authenticity and purity of the products they make.
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