Going on holiday (abroad)

[Kiwififer]

CBD oil is good stuff. I have a lot of friends who use it for menopause symptoms and they say it's changed their lives.

I take the gummies especially over winter time. They may be a placebo or not but they appear to dampen the arthritis in my dodgy knee down a bit.

[Frnc]

There was something on Sky news the other day about medical uses of cannabis extracts. It was saying it's not illegal, but a lot of pharmacists and GPs refuse to prescribe it. They had some expert on saying the medical uses are very important, and it should be more widely used. It is only legal for medical use if prescribed.

NHS says
"A hospital specialist might consider prescribing medical cannabis:

for epilepsy – if you (or your child) have one of the rare forms of epilepsy that might be helped by medical cannabis
for MS – if you have spasticity from MS and other treatments for this are not helping
for chemotherapy – if you are vomiting or feeling sick from chemotherapy and other anti-sickness treatments are not helping"

[Kiwififer]

There was something on Sky news the other day about medical uses of cannabis extracts. It was saying it's not illegal, but a lot of pharmacists and GPs refuse to prescribe it. They had some expert on saying the medical uses are very important, and it should be more widely used. It is only legal for medical use if prescribed.

NHS says
"A hospital specialist might consider prescribing medical cannabis:

for epilepsy – if you (or your child) have one of the rare forms of epilepsy that might be helped by medical cannabis
for MS – if you have spasticity from MS and other treatments for this are not helping
for chemotherapy – if you are vomiting or feeling sick from chemotherapy and other anti-sickness treatments are not helping"

For epilepsy, that would be the THC part than can help with seizures. The CBD part which even Holland and Barrett sell is akin to a plant based ibuprofen. It’s funny, as preppers we should all be open to finding out what plants can help with ailments, dandelions used to be used to help with diuretics for example.

[itsybitsy]

CBD oil is good stuff. I have a lot of friends who use it for menopause symptoms and they say it's changed their lives.

I take the gummies especially over winter time. They may be a placebo or not but they appear to dampen the arthritis in my dodgy knee down a bit.

If it's working for you then who cares!

[Kiwififer]

CBD oil is good stuff. I have a lot of friends who use it for menopause symptoms and they say it's changed their lives.

I take the gummies especially over winter time. They may be a placebo or not but they appear to dampen the arthritis in my dodgy knee down a bit.

If it's working for you then who cares!

Exactly.

I tried to join a local foraging group in Edinburgh to find out more about herbal remedies but left for reasons best left unsaid. It would be good to get a list of what plant helps with what ailment though…

[GillyBee]

And don't get me started on why cannabis oil (not CBD) is proven to work for some medical conditions (e.g. epileptic kids) and theoretically is NHS approved but actually getting hold of it if medically required, even if your consultant agrees......

[Kiwififer]

And don't get me started on why cannabis oil (not CBD) is proven to work for some medical conditions (e.g. epileptic kids) and theoretically is NHS approved but actually getting hold of it if medically required, even if your consultant agrees......

I can imagine.

I also see that both MDMA and magic mushrooms are being trialled again to help people with PTSD. I know that MDMA has been used over the years in legal settings, it was last legally used as a marital therapy in the 60’s in the States.

I am of the belief that most things if properly used has a time and place, it is when they are misused, that’s when problems occur.

Anyhow, has anyone got a list of herbal plant remedies? Stuff that grows in the U.K. specifically?

[itsybitsy]

It's nothing to do with 'hash' and 'good stuff'.

CBD is a chemical substance found in cannabis that has medical benefits - it's full name is Cannabidiol. It doesn't get you high, because the THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), which is the stuff that give users the 'high' they experience when they use cannabis recreationally, either isn't present at all, or is only present in trace amounts of less than .5 of a percent, so to actually feel any kind of 'high' you'd probably need to ingest about 20 gallons of the stuff and even then it's debatable. You'd need your stomach pumped before you started to feel any psychoactive effects.

[Frnc]

I take the gummies especially over winter time. They may be a placebo or not but they appear to dampen the arthritis in my dodgy knee down a bit.

If it's working for you then who cares!

Exactly.

I tried to join a local foraging group in Edinburgh to find out more about herbal remedies but left for reasons best left unsaid. It would be good to get a list of what plant helps with what ailment though…

I've not really looked into medicinal properties yet. It's on my list of things to do. So far I've figured out what the most common wild plants are*, which are edible, and how to identify them. The info is all on my phone but I also have a collection of books, both foraging-type ones and ID books, which are usually written by botanists and feature a 'key' which is a list of questions or attribute that lead you to ID. There's a lot to it, eg you need to know the terminology and parts. I don't mind writing in the margins, so I can make notes of medicinal uses. I think the wild food UK site lists some.

*I did a thread on this viewtopic.php?t=18380, I have it on a spreadsheet. I got the info from a database of reported observations.

[Kiwififer]

I’ve got the audiobook of The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell which touches on medical properties of plants amongst other things.

Not much good to actually read and make notes from though!