CBD Oil Benefits For Anxiety
If one tells you that cannabis is good for treating anxiety – do not jump to conclusions. Just read below and you will see that CBD is not about a “high” effect, but it is a true saving pill. When it comes to talks about anxiety and cannabis, the uninformed audience can be a little […]
If one tells you that cannabis is good for treating anxiety – do not jump to conclusions. Just read below and you will see that CBD is not about a “high” effect, but it is a true saving pill.
When it comes to talks about anxiety and cannabis, the uninformed audience can be a little misguided by the stereotypical perception of cannabis, mostly known as marijuana. The majority of people know this plant for its psychotropic properties enabling people to go away from stressful reality, at least for a while.
A significantly minor number of persons can think and speak about the treatment potential of cannabis with the same certainty as the previous group. Yet, this point is that one is indeed worth attention and appreciation. Beneath, we are going to talk about multiple opportunities related to the use of cannabis-derived cures with a focus on a complex and hard-to-treat disease – anxiety.
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- are tracking well-being innovations,
- want to have up-to-date information
- are tired of taking a handful of medicines daily and need an effective solution
So, what is CBD oil?
You might be interested in why we started the article by writing about marijuana while the title promised the well-being context. It is high time to explain this.CBD oil, or cannabidiol, is one of the most promising well-being and curing options nowadays. Its treatment properties overcome all the medical predictions and turn it into an exceptional remedy of a broad action. Yet, it is also one of the most challenging options among cures. You will be surprised but the factor that underlies both positive and negative perceptions is indeed a single one.
The thing is in the following. CBD is made of compounds derived from cannabis plants. These are components, so-called cannabinoids, with two of the most active – cannabidiol (actually CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The effectiveness of CBD is preconditioned by the harmonious interaction between these two compounds. At the same time, the presence of THC, which is a significant element of curing tandem, overshadows the overall nature of CBD.
Manufacturers succeeded to meet clients’ requests and offered CBD that is free of THC. It is known as broad-spectrum CBD. Yet, the absence of THC significantly weakens the effect of full spectrum remedy.
Do you want to know why this happens?
To answer this question, one needs to know just a single fact – cannabinoids derived from cannabis are the only analogs of endocannabinoids which are also vital elements of the human nervous system. They can be found nowhere outside of the human body, except for industrial hemp.The variety of them as well as the unique naturally-occurred way to interact can restore the functions of the nervous system. Apparently, excluding some kind of cannabinoids from natural extract people violate ideal balance and, consequently, deprives it of full-scale properties.
What properties are we talking about?
You might guess that if saying about the nervous system we mean every single health aspect related to vital functions of the human body – movement, mood, homeostasis, and immune system. Since cannabinoids are related to transmitting signals between receptors and have an analgetic and anti-inflammation effect, they can relieve pain, treat eating and sleeping disorders, and improve mental and psychological health. It is worth mentioning that all this can be treated with CBD at every possible level – from situational problems to severe chronic conditions.
Anxiety
Anxiety is also on this list and there is no surprise. Anxiety is a natural stress response. You know exactly this condition. At least once a life you have experienced deep worries before passing an exam or having a job interview. It is one of the anxiety forms, it is a light “natural” reaction and it does not require treatment.
Yet, potent and prolonged stress situations devastate the nervous system making it unable to respond appropriately. The natural regulative function is lost and the person can feel anxiety constantly.
If fear, uncertainty, or any other trouble symptoms lasts more than six months and interfere with the person’s life, most likely, it comes to anxiety disorder, which requires treatment.
In the majority of cases, people who have relatives with anxiety disorder, have faced trauma events, experienced substance use, or suffer from diseases like diabetes, are at the highest risk to get anxiety disorder.
Why did we emphasize this fact?
You must know that it is always better to prevent the illness than treat it. If you are in a risk group it is highly recommended to start thinking about treatment right now.
And it is time to think about CBD as one of the most effective ways to both prevent and treat.
A moment for science!
Every wise person asks about scientific trials and previous use of CBD in practice. And here they are! CBD has been long inspected as a new and challenging phenomenon. Treatment effects and side effects were the focus of multiple research and experiments. So, one of them explored the effectiveness of CBD in helping to cope with the fear of public speaking and the other one was related to treating post-traumatic syndrome disorder. In both cases, CBD has demonstrated rather good results. In the first case, people who took CBD before public speech had lower levels of anxiety than those who took the placebo. In the second case, 10 of 11 patients of the psychiatric clinic experienced a decrease in their PTSD symptoms after eight weeks of taking CBD (https://www.forbes.com/health/body/cbd-oil-benefits/). Moreover, doctors who supported trials declared that CBD was well tolerated by patients.
Sure, it is the start of CBD’s story, if compared to many conventional remedies, yet results demonstrate brightly that it is equally effective as an antidepressant and as a long-term well-tolerated treatment with minor side effects.
If choosing CBD, what form to opt for?
CBD exists in a variety of forms – oil, vapes, gummies, pills, lotions, etc. There is no evidence that one works better than the other. All these forms of CBD have a similar composition (with minor variations) but some are most preferred by consumers.
Most often people use CBD oil and, partially, it is reasonable enough since oil is an initial form of CBD. Manufacturers first produce oil with cannabis extract and then continue processing it to get all the other forms of the remedy.
Moreover, oil can bring relatively fast relief, especially when taking it bilingually. Consumers also practice adding CBD oil to their dishes or beverages to make the process easy and invisible in case they need to take CBD in public.
Side-effect and dosage
These two are in a single paragraph since they are inextricably linked. Actually, research and trials did not find significant side effects caused by CBD oil itself. But, there could be cases of interaction with the other medicines, taking of personally-intolerable dosage, etc.
CBD oil has organic nature and it could influence different people differently depending on their individual tolerance not only to two central cannabinoids but also to terpenes – flavonoids endowing the plant with a special flavor.
There are no data about overdosage cases, moreover, in some situations, a bigger dosage is better, while in others mall dose works best.
What does it mean?
It means that you should not experience your creativity in taking CBD. You need to get a prescription from your physician, who knows exactly all your inherited illnesses, predisposition to some disease, allergies, or other variants of personally intolerable compounds.
What about the psychotropic effect and legalization status?
It is a good question before ordering CBD oil from online shops or distributors. To date, 56 countries legalized cannabidiol, yet the others are still hesitating. The reason is THC which is related to the idea of undesired effects and addiction.
the first point that should be emphasized: CBD oil is extracted from industrial hemp and this kind of plant differs from the marijuana used for purposes of taking high. THC is also different in industrial sort.
The second point is that CBD oil is used for treating different kinds of addictions and mitigates all the unpleasant symptoms related to this process. Pay attention – mitigates but not makes them severe.
The third point is that anxiety sometimes requires taking psychotropic medications to get results and these medications often are more threatening than CBD yet it is justified because of their positive effect. Trials do not showcase threats of CBD and in such cases, it seems to be a good solution even when having doubts. Moreover, legalized CBD oil contains no more than 0.3 % THC. Such concentration cannot bring high effects or cause side effects. Especially if taking CBD according to a doctor’s appointment.
And the fifth point is that you can always opt for CBD oil that is thoroughly purified from THC and other compounds, which could leave a trace of threat in the remedy. It is called CBD isolate. This form is safe and usually are taken by children or elderly people.
