DWQA QuestionsCategory: Healing ModalitiesIs the broad mixture of cannabinoids in the hemp extract, CannaComplete, superior or inferior, to using pure cannabidiol for cancer patients?
Nicola Staff asked 8 months ago
While cannabidiol is one of the most effective of the cannabinoids for cancer prophylaxis and treatment, it is truly the case there are multiple fighters that can be extracted along with cannabidiol, and such mixtures have a synergistic benefit from the combination of chemical substances. The traditional way of thinking learned in the biopharmaceutical arena over many years, has been too heavily biased to identify the active principle in nutritional substances believed to have some therapeutic benefit. While it is sometimes the case that the most potent bioactive substance is perfectly fine to use in isolation, there are a number of situations where there is actually an array of biochemicals that work better when administered together. If you think about it, that is how plant extracts have been found by native peoples to have medicinal properties, starting from a whole plant and perhaps making a tea or broth from the plant parts and serving that without any further purification and concentration of active ingredients. It is because the synergy of what is present may well be enough with a modest amount of starting material to get a clinical benefit, not always, but sometimes. And that is an important clue that over-refinement can actually reduce the potential level of activity obtainable from a whole plant extract, simply concentrated but not chemically treated to pull out a single ingredient.