The History Of Hemp Medicine

All through the years there has been a large amount of various documented information concerning the use of hemp and its effectiveness in helping a wide variety of different types of medicinal concerns. Perhaps the earliest account that has been recorded in using this conflicting plant for medical reasons comes from the Discorides, the father of medicine in 100 A.D. who named the industrial hemp plant Cannabis sativa and recorded the many medical uses for the plant. The Chinese as long as 5,000 years ago are known to have used the hemp plant naming it in one of the first medical text and calling it a superior herb. The beliefs are that it was first used in the northern areas of the Himalayan Mountains in Central Asia. It would become known by the sixteenth century to be the largest crop cultivated that produced positive effects for various medical conditions along with a long list of other helpful uses.
 
Guesstimated to have lived during the times of 3494 B.C and 2657 B.C., Shen Nung, who was known as the “father of husbandry,” documented a variety of conditions in a book of pharmacology stating that hemp should be used for, such as constipation, beriberi, absent-mindedness, rheumatism, female weakness, and malaria.
 
In 1997, the (NIH) US National Institute of Health along with the British Medical Association, released some reports that included information on cannavinoids and cannabis and its therapeutic uses. This information stated its positive effects in treatments of epilepsy, glaucoma, antispasmodics, analgesics, appetite stimulants and anti-emetics.

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