Hello friends – hey, I’ve been thinking about COVID 19 again, and I want to lay this idea out for you and see what you think.
What if CBD can effectively treat the lung inflammation and consequent drowning in mucous caused by COVID 19?
I want to share some research that strongly suggests that CBD may be able to help at least some people being attacked and killed by the COVID 19 virus. Maybe while we’re waiting a year or so to develop a vaccine to “prevent” this virus we should be seeing if simple, safe CBD could treat and maybe heal the lung inflammation that is killing people right now.
These are some peer-reviewed medical/scientific journal research lung inflammation studies from the National Institutes of Health database that I think support this possibility and the logic of trying:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25356537
“Thus, we conclude that CBD administered therapeutically, i.e. during an ongoing inflammatory process, has a potent anti-inflammatory effect and also improves the lung function in mice submitted to LPS-induced ALI. Therefore the present and previous data suggest that in the future cannabidiol might become a useful therapeutic tool for the attenuation and treatment of inflammatory lung diseases.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31437494
“Thus, CBD has a differential inflammatory response and acts as an anti-inflammatory agent in pro-inflammatory conditions but acts as an antagonist with steroids, overriding the anti-inflammatory potential of steroids when used in combination.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23851307
“Together, our findings highlight the anti-inflammatory effects of CBD in this viral model of MS and demonstrate the significant therapeutic potential of this compound for the treatment of pathologies with an inflammatory component.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30481497
“CBD treatment, regardless of dosage, decreased airway hyperresponsiveness, whereas static lung elastance only reduced with high dose. These outcomes were accompanied by decreases in collagen fibre content in both airway and alveolar septa and the expression of markers associated with inflammation in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and lung homogenate.
There was a significant and inverse correlation between CB1 levels and lung function in asthmatic patients. CBD treatment decreased the inflammatory and remodelling processes in the model of allergic asthma. “
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31800399
“CBD induced almost full concentration-dependent vasorelaxation in hPAs and rat sMAs.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31775230
“The main focus is on the latest in vitro and in vivo studies that present data regarding the anti-proliferative, pro-apoptotic, cytotoxic, anti-invasive, anti-antiangiogenic, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory properties of CBD together with their mechanisms of action. “
As you probably already know CBD is also cheap, natural, and no side effects. I know personally that 40 mg/day treats and prevents whole body inflammation and inflammatory conditions better than anything Pig Pharma has to offer. I believe that CBD will go down in history alongside aspirin – it will be ultimately recognized as that powerful a gift from the natural world.
Here’s why I believe those studies I linked to above, and others that circle around the same core conclusion, show that CBD might help a lot of people who will otherwise die from COVID 19 infection.
As I understand it, in a normal flu the body’s immune system attacks the replicating flu virus in the cells of the lungs by inflaming and sloughing off infected tissue full of that replicating virus, creating what we call mucous. But an otherwise healthy body can usually cough up and expel that mucous fast enough to keep ahead of it. With a nasty virus like COVID 19, its super-rapid replication rate overwhelms the lungs with so much mucous so fast that the coughing mechanism can’t cope, and the victim gets weak because the rest of their body including their brain and CNS are inflamed too, and the mucous gets backed up and the lungs fill up and – voila – pneumonia.
The “Pneu” & “”monia roots of the word, out of ancient Green and into Latin, literally mean ‘inflammation of the lungs”. So maybe a little bit of truth is revealed in a word so familiar that we ignore its meaning without understanding its message. Inflammation. That’s the message. If we could keep the inflammation under control, and if our coughing could keep up with the mucous being generated as our immune system fights the virus in our lungs, would as many of us die? Not from the virus, but from the consequences of its choice of human lungs as an optimal place to replicate like crazy.
What if instead of praying for multi-billion dollar vaccines to (maybe) protect us we could, while we’re waiting, prevent or at least keep the inflammatory processes that create all that mucous under control, and what if at the same time we could help our bodies expel that mucous by keeping the airway inflammation down that reduces our ability to cough, and weakens our whole body taking away our strength. “Their cough just got weaker and weaker and then they died”. Of course they did, because the virus attacks a lot of other places and functions in the body that CBD might help with by keeping inflammation from weakening and killing people.
Could Cannabis save a few million people from death by COVID 19? You can bet that if we ever find out it won’t be from the folks who gave us the DEA and the FDA – no real difference there. Government agencies and Pig Pharma certainly dont want a People’s Medicine like CBD to turn out to be an effective treatment for a lot of inflammatory diseases. Lucky for a lot of people that CBD is legal almost everywhere and those who want to can try it for themselves. If enough at-risk people started taking CBD right now, and if they caught COVID 19 but made it through OK in spite of being old and sick to start with ( and taking CBD might help with some of that too, just incidentally), wouldn’t that be a hoot! And if it doesn’t help save lives of people with inflammatory lung disease but still has the other already established health benefits, where’s the harm in trying?
