Anyone who has ever had the unlucky experience of seeing a loved one suffer from pain knows and understands just how few tools are available to doctors for pain management. The best solutions, and
about the only ones that work for pain management in cancer patients are morphine based. After long periods of use the morphine dosages need to be increased and the patients suffer from serious side-effects such as instability on their feet –– liable to cause a broken bone or
worse –– and severe mental instability.

Patients on morphine are quite literally stoned all the time. And while the experience might be more pleasant than the pain, the psychological effects can be devastating to both the patient and their
family. On one hand the patient wants and needs pain relief badly, but on the other the opioids can lead to confusion and severe hallucinations. I experienced this first-hand with my father when he
was in the active stages of dying from cancer. While the pain was under control, the drugs made him confused and it didn’t allow us to get close to him in the way we needed in last days, and weeks. We
didn’t know what else to do. The doctors told us they could not prescribe cannabis in the hospital.

Shamans and medicine men and women have known for thousands of years that the cannabis plant offers an excellent way to relieve pain. In the olden days when cannabis wasn’t that strong people would smoke the whole plant and experience all sorts of benefits, including psychotropic ones.

Thanks to the brave work and research by parents, scientists and physicians alike, people like Dr. Alan Shackelford and Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, we can now give active pain relief components to cancer
patients and those suffering from chronic pain, without giving them the high. The answer is in cannabidial, one of the molecules created by the cannabis plant. Also known as CBD (see CBD Oil UK) it is the mellower of chemicals in the marijuana plant, offering long-term pain relief without the high. It can be isolated in high concentrations giving much of the plant’s benefit to the patient without getting them stoned.

While the “high” aspect of cannabis definitely should not be discounted in part of the therapy for many people who use the plant as relief, it is questionable about how well one can work, drive –– or if you are a child –– can function on the entire cannabis plant including that with THC.

CBD, especially in the properly dosed oil format can be used in conjunction with conventional pain treatments to modulate and hopefully reduce the dose or remove the use of the addictive conventional therapy altogether.

If you’re interested in learning more about or trying CBD, check out this review of the best CBD oils.

The topical medications have been used for a long time now for mild health issues and are also recommended by doctors in various circumstances or sometimes even for specific problems. Primarily you might have witnessed the usage of the topical medicines in skin related diseases or issues, or possibly for muscle pains.

You might have guessed by now that you have been using it in the forms of ointments, creams, solutions, gels, foams, and drops which you apply on your skin or mucous membranes. There are various advantages behind the usage of such medicines, and that’s the reason why they exist in the first place. One of the most significant benefits of using topical medication is the idea of alternative medicine. Professionals at time fear to give you certain medications orally because of the other medicines you are consuming. They don’t want your body to experience an unwanted reaction which can be hazardous.

This is the reason why they end up choosing topical medicines as an alternative.

It is also massively used for muscle pain, spasms, and other body part muscle pains. But recently the introduction of cannabis with the combination of different natural ingredients is changing the dimensions of the topical medication industry. The concept once looked with inhibitions by the practitioners is now being welcomed with open arms by the pharmaceutical industry. A lot of research was done, and finally, CBDMEDIC has come up with topical ointments and creams for sports injuries, arthritis, muscle, and joint pains, etc.

Cannabis topical (THC Free), when prepared with other natural ingredients, has known to produce effective results for temporary pain relief symptoms. CBDMEDIC is the first and only family of topical medications that have worked on combining the advanced science with natural organic ingredients such as menthol, camphor, hemp extract which is – Cannabis sativa L (THC free and non-psychoactive) and other finest natural ingredients. CBDMEDIC pain relief products are known to work fast for temporary relief of the pain symptoms.

Today, after a ground-breaking research and a new technology, CBDMEDIC products are FDA- registered legitimately and in conformance with FDA manufacturing requirements.

CBDMEDIC is right now the pioneer when it comes to the manufacturing of such topical medications. These topical medications have also been claimed to have the following advantages over the other traditional topical medications.

• Localized Pain Management – For body areas such as back, knee, hands, and other work injuries.
• Reduces Arthritis – It is quite common in the arthritic condition that one goes through swelling and inflammation in the joints. The CBDMEDIC formula reduces the inflammation by activating the CB2 receptors.
• Alleviates Symptoms of Sports related activities and injuries such as IT Band Syndrome, Plantar Fasciitis and Shin Splints.

People have openly started using CBDMEDIC products to get themselves temporarily free of their pain driven conditions with some cause or the other. CBDMEDIC products are available just in the forms of creams and ointments. When you apply any ointment, it is in contact with your body on a peripheral basis which means it cannot enter your bloodstream. And this also promises zero non-psych activity.

For a while now, the scientific community has known that global warming is caused by manmade emissions in the form of greenhouse gases and global cooling by air pollution in the form of aerosols.  However, new research published in Science by Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Daniel Rosenfeld shows that the degree to which aerosols cool the earth has been grossly underestimated, necessitating a recalculation of climate change models to more accurately predict the pace of global warming.

Aerosols are tiny particles that float in the air.  They can form naturally (e.g., desert dust) or artificially (e.g., smoke from coal, car exhaust).  Aerosols cool our environment by enhancing cloud cover that reflect the sunlight (heat) back to space.

As for the first, clouds form when wind rises and cools.  However, cloud composition is largely determined by aerosols.  The more aerosol particles a shallow cloud contains, the more small water droplets it will hold.  Rain happens when these droplets bind together.  Since it takes longer for small droplets to bind together than it does for large droplets, aerosol-filled or “polluted” clouds contain more water, live in the sky longer (while they wait for droplets to bind and rain to fall, after which the clouds will dissipate) and cover a greater area.  All the while, the aerosol-laden clouds reflect more solar energy back into space, thereby cooling the Earth’s overall temperature.

To what extent do aerosols cool down our environment?  To date, all estimates were unreliable because it was impossible to separate the effects of rising winds which create the clouds, from the effects of aerosols which determine their composition.  Until now.

Rosenfeld and his colleague Yannian Zhu from the Meteorological Institute of Shaanxi Province in China developed a new method that uses satellite images to separately calculate the effect of vertical winds and aerosol cloud droplet numbers.  They applied this methodology to low-lying cloud cover above the world’s oceans between the Equator and 40°S.  With this new method, Rosenfeld and his colleagues were able to more accurately calculate aerosols’ cooling effects on the Earth’s energy budget.  And, they discovered that aerosols’ cooling effect is nearly twice higher than previously thought.

However, if this is true then how come the earth is getting warmer, not cooler?  For all of the global attention on climate warming, aerosol pollution rates from vehicles, agriculture and power plants is still very high.  For Rosenfeld, this discrepancy might point to an ever deeper and more troubling reality. “If the aerosols indeed cause a greater cooling effect than previously estimated, then the warming effect of the greenhouse gases has also been larger than we thought, enabling greenhouse gas emissions to overcome the cooling effect of aerosols and points to a greater amount of global warming than we previously thought,” he shared.

The fact that our planet is getting warmer even though aerosols are cooling it down at higher rates than previously thought brings us to a Catch-22 situation: Global efforts to improve air quality by developing cleaner fuels and burning less coal could end up harming our planet by reducing the number of aerosols in the atmosphere, and by doing so, diminishing aerosols’ cooling ability to offset global warming.

According to Rosenfeld, another hypothesis to explain why Earth is getting warmer even though aerosols have been cooling it down at an even a greater rate is a possible warming effect of aerosols when they lodge in deep clouds, meaning those 10 kilometers or more above the Earth. Israel’s Space Agency and France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) have teamed up to develop new satellites that will be able to investigate this deep cloud phenomenon, with Professor Rosenfeld as its principal investigator.

Either way, the conclusion is the same.  Our current global climate predictions do not correctly take into account the significant effects of aerosols on clouds on Earth’s overall energy balance.  Further, Rosenfeld’s recalculations mean fellow scientists will have to rethink their global warming predictions—which currently predict a 1.5° to 4.5°-degree Celsius temperature increase by the end of the 21^st century—to provide us a more accurate diagnosis—and prognosis—of the Earth’s climate.