Powerful organic compounds found in medical cannabis can slash some cancers by 50%, researchers find
by: Vicki Batts
NaturalNews.com
Friday, November 23, 2018
Medical marijuana is a booming industry, and the use value of cannabis just continues to expand as we learn more about this heavily prohibited, but clearly medicinal, plant. While indoor CBD flower and general CBD (cannabidiol) has been stealing the show, with its ability to help treat seizures, there is a new, non-psychoactive, medicinal plant compound in town: Terpenes. Terpenes are another class of beneficial compounds, found in an array of strong-smelling plants. Terpenes can be found in citrus fruits, rosemary, frankincense, and of course, cannabis. Plants actually use the pungent odors produced by terpenes to ward off pathogens and predators.
It is no wonder, then, that terpenes offer a number of health benefits to the humans who consume them.
Terpenes in cannabis fight cancer
There are over 200 different terpenes found in the cannabis plant. Most healing plants, like lemon, only have one or two terpenes to offer. This alone is a strong indication of the healing power found within cannabis, but as Natural Health 365 explains, terpenes also play a role in the plant’s “entourage effect.”
Cannabis contains a bevy of compounds and substances, including cannabinoids like CBD and THC, esters, lactones, ketones, and fatty acids. These compounds, along with terpenes, interact with each other. The synergy of cannabis compounds is credited with making the whole plant a much more potent medicine than any of Big Pharma’s concoctions.
As Natural Health 365 reports:
These interactions produce what is now known as the “Entourage Effect” of Cannabis Therapy. The term was first coined in the late 1990s by Israeli scientists S. Ben-Shabat and Raphael Mechoulam of Hebrew University in Jerusalem and refers to how terpenes and cannabinoids in cannabis combine and interact for the treatment of specific disease conditions.
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