There has been growing interest in studying the more than 400 unique substances found in Cannabis extracts, including not only cannabinoids but terpenes, which have been found to have therapeutic benefits, including antiviral and anticancer activity, and are devoid of psychoactive properties like the delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana. [Cannabis as antivirals. Yi Lin Sea 1, et al. J. Appl. Microbiol. 2023 Jan 23;134(1)] As Cannabidiol is the most prominent non-psychoactive cannabinoid, it has been promoted by some who are following the usual mindset that it is best to purify a single, and hopefully the most potent, substance from a given plant extract. Is a wide-spectrum hemp extract preferable to purified cannabidiol both as an antiviral as well as anticancer agent?

DWQA Questions › Category: Healing Modalities › There has been growing interest in studying the more than 400 unique substances found in Cannabis extracts, including not only cannabinoids but terpenes, which have been found to have therapeutic benefits, including antiviral and anticancer activity, and are devoid of psychoactive properties like the delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana. [Cannabis as antivirals. Yi Lin Sea 1, et al. J. Appl. Microbiol. 2023 Jan 23;134(1)] As Cannabidiol is the most prominent non-psychoactive cannabinoid, it has been promoted by some who are following the usual mindset that it is best to purify a single, and hopefully the most potent, substance from a given plant extract. Is a wide-spectrum hemp extract preferable to purified cannabidiol both as an antiviral as well as anticancer agent?

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Nicola Staff asked 3 weeks ago

We can tell you the divine plan for cannabis was to include the psychoactive principal Delta-9-THC to ensure it would get noticed and be embraced as a nutritional source of benefit. The antiviral substances are there deliberately to provide an answer for illness due to such pathogens, so there would be a therapeutic benefit of great value to deal with such scourges. The human assumption, having a medicinal activity within common plants is simply a matter of luck and likely a rarity, is a human bias not truly understanding the broad canvas being implemented to provide for your world in manifest ways. It is more usually the case that having multiple interrelated chemical families of beneficial nutritional substances becomes more powerful through having multiple effects, on multiple chemical pathways in the body, that can be working together and provide not only an additive overall benefit in magnitude but many times a synergistic enhancement promoting a desirable outcome, and that is the case with the many chemical substances in cannabis—they work together to orchestrate a broad series of antimicrobial and anticancer benefits. This is why a wide-spectrum hemp extract will be much more beneficial than a single ingredient like cannabidiol could hope to be.