This installment is the last of the Marijuana/Hemp CBD series of columns and focuses on the mechanism through which CBD (Cannabidiol Hemp Oil, remember?) works to cure or reduce the magnitude of various ailments.

The ailments that CBD seems to help are arthritis, chronic pain, heart and lung malfunctioning coordinating with the central nervous system. Furthermore, although much more research is needed, it is tentatively concluded that CBD would help reduce autoimmune and inflammatory responses that trigger HIV, cancer and sclerosis.

In terms of dermatological field, CBD is effective in three powerful areas: acne breakouts and redness, preventing excessive oil production and aging over time. Concerning ailments in other animals, such as dogs, cats, horses and birds, we are unaware that their ailments can be reduced or cured by CBD for certain. I have not encountered authoritative literatures on CBD being used to treat animals. However, that is due to my lack of proper literature search. I am convinced there are some solid research literatures available in the field, especially from the research facilities and universities of Israel.

Now we move onto the most important subject of "Why and what does CBD do to cure all that ailments?" Readers, if you are educated through a science class at a college level, you can at least feel that a plant derived chemical would cure or reduce so many wide varieties of ailments as mentioned above can't be real. There has to be some either mistake, misjudgment or worse, a salesman's super hype. Yes, that would be a natural instinct if you had gotten a proper science education in your youth. (Maybe though, you might have slept through it, ha!) So, did I. I said to myself that a chemical extracted from the plant called Hemp, which is available basically everywhere in the world if you look hard, would be so widely effective in treating diseases that seem so remotely connected to each other.

So, I gave myself a mission to dig into this myth. I wanted to find out any credible scientific papers that focus on that question, and that question alone. So, I have gotten some 20 papers of various titles and subjects on CBD. My journey was to find out the very question of why CBD could be so effective for so wide a variety of ailments. My reading these papers started a week ago, and I was nearing the end with no clear conclusion. To read 20 papers in one week is a task I do not want to do again. Finally, I reached the last one, yes, 20th, when my brain got a shot of adrenalin and literally woke up from just a bureaucratic reading to sharply focused excitement. The article title is "Can CBD Really Do All That?" by Moises Velasquez-Manoff, and this paper appeared in New York Time. Due to the limited space and time, I have summarized his description of CBD effect on human body in brief statements.

First, primitive living creatures such as prehistoric fish started to migrate out of the ocean about 460 million years ago. Living on the land gave many advantages to small living creatures than the size-ranked ocean living. One could see farther, and there is less fear of becoming larger foes' lunch. The primitive small living creatures began their journey of evolution to adopt their ability to fit the environment. Today we humans rank as the top dweller of that vast pyramid.

Secondly, in the meanwhile, hemp appeared on the land about 38 million years ago. What hemp brought out into the animal kingdom, including us humans, was a a very effective weapon in immunology. Simply put, hemp produces CBD, which, upon entering human body, produces a material named CB1 Receptor and CB2 Receptors. C 1 ends up in brain, kidney, lungs and liver, while CB2 Receptor ends up in white blood cells of immune system, the gut and the spleen. See Fig 344-1. Without going through a complex and specialized scientific statement, my understanding is that these receptors would then manipulate and guide the human immunological system to better health. As you can see, CB 1 and CB2 combined would cover all the sickness and chronic pain ailments described above. -I would still say that I am amazed that a plant, now called hemp, which showed up on the dry land on the earth 422 million years later than the first primitive animal moved from the ocean to the dry land would know how to fight diseases in the human body and brought forth the very chemical and physiological weapon to do it. Is it just a spectacular coincidence, or God's will and creation?

Nevertheless, we do have this potent weapon called hemp, the most powerful and widely applicable-to-diseases plant on the earth. The plant has been, however, badly mistreated by this nation. In 1937, marijuana was banned nationwide by our country. It does smell of racial prejudice against Mexicans who were entering through the border at that time. I feel that the history may be repeating now. However, I strongly feel that we Americans should positively open up the aggressive research projects on what CBD does for the human health NOW. Israel has been at it, and I am assuming their results would be good. Why are we standing idol and watching the world go by? Hemp produces CBD, which is very widely applicable to many human ailments, and CBD is proven to be positively efficacious with little negative side effects. Let's fund our own research. We have nothing to lose, only much to gain.

This Companion to Aging column appears each week in the Seacoast Sunday features section. You can read earlier installments at http://www.seacoastonline.com. Please send your thoughts about aging to Sasano@umelink.com, Sam Asano, P.O. Box 26, New Castle, NH 03854 or (cell) 781-389-2356 or email Sam at sasano@umelink.com.

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