ABOUT CANNABINOIDS
Cannabis-based relief
The cannabis plant is complex with over 400 chemical entities. Its active ingredients are:
• Cannabinoids
• Terpenes
• Flavonoids
The most common cannabinoids used in medicine are:
• CBD
While THC is responsible for the psychoactive effects of cannabis, it also has been shown to have many medicinal benefits, including relief of pain and inflammation, nausea, anxiety and seizures. When combined with CBD, psychoactive characteristics are modulated, while enhancing THC’s medicinal benefits.
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What is medicinal cannabis?
Medicinal cannabis is derived from the flowering heads of the cannabis plant.
Cannabinoids provide most of the health benefits, but terpenes and flavonoids help enhance those therapeutic effects.
Terpenes have been shown to have analgesic or anti-inflammatory effects, while flavonoids also benefit the immune system
The natural composition of the cannabis plant is also responsible for an ‘entourage effect’*, whereby the individual components work together to enhance their respective benefits.
* The ‘entourage effect’ is the notion that the pharmacological effects of cannabis, as a whole extract, is greater than the sum of its individual chemical components.