What is RSO Oil? RSO oil, also known as Rick Simpson Oil, is a potent cannabis extract made famous by Canadian medical marijuana activist Rick Simpson. Unlike other cannabis concentrates that are often consumed for recreational purposes, RSO was specifically created with the intent of delivering strong therapeutic benefits. The oil is a full-extract cannabis oil (FECO) , meaning it contains the full spectrum of cannabinoids, terpenes, and plant compounds extracted from the cannabis plant. Its dark, thick consistency and high THC concentration distinguish it from CBD oils or lighter cannabis tinctures. The History of RSO Oil Rick Simpson developed RSO in the early 2000s after being diagnosed with skin cancer. He claimed that applying the oil topically on cancerous spots led to healing. While medical research has not fully confirmed his claims, his story spread globally, making RSO a household name in the cannabis community. Today, RSO oil remains one of the most widely discus...
Use of Medical Marijuana for Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (also known as MS) is painful and degenerative disease of the central nervous system. MS slowly cripples its victims and in the end leads to death in some cases. It affects victim’s vision, memory, hearing, moves and balance. The average age of patients with MS disorder is 20-40 years. Even though no cure has been found for multiple sclerosis, this disease is not fatal. Treatment usually consists of medications, such as: barbiturates, steroids, tranquilizers, and opiates. These drugs simply help the patient to manage disorder symptoms for a limited time but are also known to cause severe side effects that interrupt normal routine. These “high risk” side effects include weakness, nausea, abdominal cramps, loss of appetite, seizures and many others. Marijuana use, on the other hand, has side effects that are mild and are classified as “low risk” side effects.How Marijuana Use Can Help Multiple Sclerosis Patients
After dozen of independent scientist’s studies and reports, US National Multiple Sclerosis Society concluded that marijuana contains cannabinoids that have the potential to treat multiple sclerosis as well as slow down the progression of the disease. Medical cannabis is helpful for a wide variety of MS symptoms and indications, such as:• Reduces muscle stiffness and tremors.
• Improves balance, speech and eyesight
• Allows MS patients to be more mobile and not movement impaired
• Quells muscle spasms
Many patients with MS disease agreed that smoking medical marijuana quells their muscle spasticity better than barbiturates and relives their pain better than opioid drugs. Medical marijuana helps MS patients to relieve pain and is helpful in treating other multiple sclerosis symptoms, although it there is no strong scientific evidence of that. All scientific study results are not published and are kept in secret by the government, due to federal prohibition on cannabis. Many MS patients, who are bound to their wheelchair, report that mitigated their muscle spasms they can walk without additional aid when they have smoked medical marijuana. More than half of marijuana-smoking MS patients said it relieves and alleviates their pain.
Cannabinoids, Immune Suppression and Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms
Natural cannabis contains more than 400 chemical compounds; approximately 60 of them are cannabinoids. There are 2 cannabinoids that play a major role in treating patients with MS disease, and these cannabinoids are: tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). It has been scientifically proven, that these cannabinoids are capable of creating immune suppression.Cannabinoids “turn off” a portion of the immune response and decrease hyperactivity of immune system cells. This prevents the patient from more damage caused by immune cells to the myelin.
Cannabinoids operate similarly to steroids, except they don’t cause severe side effects and don’t disrupt the patient from normal routine.