CBD For Pain
CBD for Pain Relief
CBD for pain relief has gained popularity in the healthcare and beauty industry over the past few years.
Apart from being used in beauty products and for amusement, they are also used as an alternative to conventional therapy.
One of its most notable usages is definitely to relieve pain, and it has become popular because it does not cause addiction and it does not have any severe side effects.
Many scientific studies claim that CBD oils are a more effective and safer alternative to painkillers.
Pain is something that is experienced by everyone at some point in their lives. Chronic pain can be uncomfortable to live with at best or debilitating at worst.
Common treatments for pain include opioids but people all over the world are looking for alternatives because they can be habit-forming and have serious side effects.
Opioid-related deaths have even been called an opioid epidemic by the US Center for Disease Control (CDC). In 2019 over 70% of drug related deaths in the USA involved an opioid.
It is understandable that people are increasingly looking for pain management alternatives.
Some people believe CBD for pain is extremely effective as the research on CBD products and pain management has been promising.
Human studies on CBD for pain are lacking, due to restrictions on the use of and research on cannabis, and more research is needed in this area, but the studies we do have show some encouraging results.
In the first human experimental study on CBD for pain, the research showed that CBD has real pain-relieving properties in humans. The authors of the study expected it to show that the anecdotal pain-relieving effects of CBD that are reported are from people experiencing the placebo effect.
However, the researchers found that CBD had real pharmacological effects resulting in pain relief. The lead researcher Martin De Vita said: “we found improvements in pain measures caused by the pharmacological effects of CBD (…) it was pretty remarkable and surprising” (Source)
There are several ways to take CBD for pain relief: Ingesting it via a capsule, tablet or gummy.
These are absorbed via the bloodstream after being digested, this can take up to two hours. Absorbed sublingually (under the tongue) via a CBD oil.
Letting the product absorb under your tongue rather than subjecting it to the digestive tract preserves more of the CBD, and you’ll feel results faster.
Topically, this means designed to be applied directly to the skin. CBD creams are supposed to be absorbed into the skin, topicals are a great choice when it comes to treating localized pain.
If you are treating a painful area then the physical motion of massaging the cream in may provide additional benefits.
