Another good day to me!:)

Routine health check has been booked. Let see in what condition my 47 years body is…! 🙂

I am still digging and reading, as a natural remedies are very important to me. I try to avoid pharmacology by implementing prevention and healthy habits gained through my researches.

Today my attention has got Hemp Oil. The selling of hemp is sometimes controversial, given that it is often associated with marijuana. Hemp is a plant that is in the cannabis family of plants. The difference is hemp doesn’t have the same level of THC as marijuana has, and it is THC that gives pot its mind-altering power. But unlike marijuana, hemp is particularly cultivated to have low levels of THC. Hemp has been used for many things, including ropes, sails and cloth.

The cultivation of hemp began more than 10,000 years ago in the region that is modern day Taiwan. Perhaps the first agricultural crop, hemp served as the foundation of sustainable civilisation. By 6,000 B.C., evidence shows the hemp plant was cultivated in modern day China. The ancient Chinese used the hemp stalks for building materials, but they also made clothing and shoes from the hemp cord. Ancient Chinese civilisations discovered that hemp seed is high in protein, vitamins, and essential fatty and amino acids an ideal source of food and nutrition. The hemp seeds and stalks were also pressed to make hemp oil and salves. Quite simply, hemp existed as an answer for the life sustaining needs of burgeoning Eastern societies well before any clear understanding of the health benefits of hemp were known.The discovery of the medicinal qualities of the hemp plant is not recent.

Descriptions found in the world’s oldest pharmacopoeia “Pen Ts’ao Ching” (written in the first century A.D.), suggest that ancient Chinese cultures recognised the hemp plant was dioecious, growing as either a male or female plant. Spiritually, the dioecious nature of the hemp plant complimented the Taoist philosophy of the Yin and Yang. The Yin and Yang are used to explain how two opposite forces can be complimentary and interdependent in the natural world, and is often attributed to male and female. This attribution is the first evidence of the ancient understanding of the difference between what we call industrial hemp and marijuana. When grown intentionally for building materials and food sources, the cannabis plant is trained to grow tall and narrow and is cut before it flowers, producing seeds and long stalks. However, when the plant is allowed to grow freely and through all of its growth stages, the cannabis plant will produce flower buds that we now refer to as marijuana. The ancient Chinese viewed the flower producing female plants as the “Yin” and the strong non-flowering male plants as the “Yang”. Experimentation with the male and female plants initially showed the ancient Chinese the material benefits of hemp, but it wasn’t until the year 2737 B.C. that there was any record of using hemp as a medicine. The first recorded history of using hemp as a medicine is found in the “Pen Ts’ao Ching”, which references the mystical Chinese Emperor Shen-Nung who used the female plant to make teas. He experimented with herbs in his pursuit of understanding their healing qualities. Shen-Nung made hemp medicine by extracting hemp oil from the plant’s seeds. He found the hemp seed oil, when made into a tea, was helpful as a natural pain treatment. Shen-Nung also created what is possibly the first topical hemp oil that he applied to the skin for rashes and irritation. Hemp oil uses quickly developed, and records from the Pen Ts’ao Ching show that Shen-Nung also sought to treat symptoms of rheumatic pain, intestinal constipation, disorders of the female reproductive system, and malaria with his early wellness products.

Today, things have changed, in that hemp oil and marijuana are considered two distinct things.

In most countries, there are regulations which call for a cap on the highest detectable limit of THC in hemp oil. While many people still confuse the two, ingesting hemp oil or using it on your skin won’t cause you to get high.:) It does, however, offer some powerful health benefits when used both internally and externally.

Research has found that hemp contains all of the essential amino acids and essential fatty acids that are necessary for human life. It also contains a unique protein called globule edestin which is similar to globulin in human blood plasma. Hemp seed oil possesses powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Hemp is also considered to be the most balanced oil for nutrition found in nature and it is easily digestible, too. All of this combined together, provides many wonderful benefits for health as well as beauty, inside and out. It can Lower the Risk of Heart Disease, help to Balance Hormones, Reduce PMS and Menopause Symptoms, Reduce Inflammation, Relieves the Pain of Arthritis, Prevent Some Forms of Cancer, Heal Skin Conditions, Treat Acne.

I have added this oil to my healthy essentials too! I hope you have found this article helpful as well!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!:)