Don't Get High….. Get Well

Many have written about the anorectic effect of CBD. i.e., just as THC increases our appetite, as in the munchies, CBD suppresses our appetite. Personally, I wanted to lose a few more pounds and started using either the rich cbd tinctures or oral cbd. Both effectively kill our appetite.

Now, there is one huge exception to this, but it is not a problem but another blessing. There are many patients out there who have difficulty eating due to a high anxiety state – head spinning. For these patients, when their anxiety and that vague sick feeling in their chest goes away with CBD administration, their appetite very soon increases and their anxiety pretty much vanishes.

So, it seems that THC is a better appetite stimulant in many of the Cancer and HIV patients, but we must ask in detail about the appetite issue as well as the patients emotional state before a physician can decide which approach to try first.

Here are some details of what I have been personally trying on myself with my own medication:

Knowing that oral buccal CBD/THC/Entourage has an effect of 10-12 hours for anxiety and pain, it seems reasonable that if we used our knowledge of “edibles” and how intense the THC effect can become by passing through the liver and being “hydroxylated”. This hydroxylation, the addition of an oxygen and hydrogen atom, makes the cannabinoids in a way stickier to the CB1 receptor and probably many other receptors. While THC’s agitation and toxicity is greatly enhanced by using the oral route and can cause problems, it seemed to me that since CBD goes through the same hydroxylation, we should be able to use oral CBD as a once daily medication. So far, so good and we have had an initial group of “testers” that tell us that it at times even lingers, but in a good way, into the next morning. It may be best for some patients to do their oral dose at night; we will have to see.

So, with regard to HOW we are working with the SWC collective patients and testing these oral routes, SWC makes available for no charge a few different oral preparations. This is how we are contemplating coming up with some rational way of even toying with treating women with breast cancer; this is exciting but we really do not honestly know the real benefit. On the other hand, if it were me or my wife, I would do it for sure. So if patients are very well informed, followed closely with their primary care physician, who must be onboard, we are just beginning to get into this.

The oral preparations currently being tested are:

1. CBD cookies made by the nurse at SWC. They each have 1 cc of a 13mg/6mg CBD/THC preparation. It is amazing how “incredible an edible” can be with a known dose of THC and a solid dose, it seems, of CBD.
2. Placing same dose as above, at least for now, into a 12 bottle of water and we have CBD Rich Water. As water is still legal, there should be no additional risks. :)