Cannabis for Health: The Essential Guide to Using Cannabis for Total Wellness

by Mary Clifton, Barbara Brownell Grogan

Overview

An engaging, authoritative, and accessible guide to using cannabis for wellness. Including a quick-reference chart to key cannabis strains and their health benefits, this book is one you’ll want to keep close at hand.
 
Considered “magic” in ancient medicinal circles, cannabis has a true, documented history of healing. Not only does it contain the restorative plant nutrient cannabidiol, or CBD, which is gaining stature as an antidote for various conditions from pain and nausea to arthritis and post-traumatic stress, cannabis also carries some 100 other cannabinoid nutrients that heal, including the once-banished psychoactive but powerfully medicinal THC. Barbara Brownell Grogan and Dr. Mary Clifton, two experts on cannabis, give newcomers the crucial knowledge they need to begin their healing regimen safely. Because different strains work for different people in different ways, the cannabis plant is far from “one size fits all.” Cannabis for Health discusses the various types and potencies, and what healing benefits each offers. It focuses on some high-profile strains—including power-healers—how they address 30 key conditions, and how they have served others. As this is neither a cookbook nor a dosing book, it relies on testimonials by users and physicians to guide people in their choices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454942610
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	06/22/2021
Series:	Cannabis Wellness , #2
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	434,403
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Mary Clifton is a board-certified, licensed, internal medicine doctor practicing in Manhattan. She is a recognized expert in CBD and cannabis and the founder of CBDandCannabisInfo.com. A published researcher and bestselling author, and a leading voice in telemedicine, her passion is to help patients and practitioners create a fast reset for their health and lives.

Barbara Brownell Grogan is the former editor-in-chief of National Geographic Books, where she launched a line of bestselling books based on the human body, nature’s medicine, and healthy living. She is currently principal for Rivanna Publishing Ventures and editor-in-chief of Potomac Global Media, working with a range of publishers to develop books for adults and children that support her mission to celebrate little-known aspects of the natural world and its extraordinary people, with titles including the upcoming Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Tales and Speak Up, Speak Out: The Extraordinary Fighting Life of Shirley Chisholm. Grogan co-authored a milestone publication, National Geographic OCEAN: A Global Odyssey, with renowned oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer in Residence Sylvia Earle, scheduled to publish in November 2021. Grogan is a certified health coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and has authored five books on natural and holistic healing, including Quarto’s 500 Time-Tested Home Remedies and the Science Behind Them. Most recently she published Cannabis for Health: The Essential Guide to Using Cannabis for Total Wellness with Dr. Mary Clifton (Sterling June 2021).
 

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Part 1 Plant Magic

In Praise of Cannabis 1

What Is Cannabis? 2

The Endocannabinoid System (ECS) 3

Part 2 Magic into Medicine

The Road to Medical Marijuana 7

Making Medicine Today 9

Legal Questions 11

Cannabis and the Workplace 13

Testing 13

Beating the Test 14

Detox and Cleansing Methods 15

Legalize! 16

Part 3 The Lowdown on the Healing High

Body Breakdown: Five Foes 21

Getting Back On Track: The Six Pillars of Integrative Nutrition and ECS Tone 22

Balanced Diet 22

Exercise 23

Sleep 23

Stress Management 23

Spirituality 23

Socialization 23

Part 4 The Cannabis Dispensary

Choosing Products 25

Modes of Administration 26

Vape Pen 26

Flower 27

Cannabis Pipe 28

Water Pipe 29

One-Hitter 30

Rolling Paper 30

Tincture or Edible 31

Part 5 Power Healers

Cannabis Strains and Their Health Benefits 33

ACDC 33

Chemdawg 34

Chernobyl 34

Cherry Pie 34

Crimea Blue 34

Crystal Coma 34

Death Star 34

Dr. Grinspoon 35

Durban Poison 35

Euphoria 35

G-13 35

Ghost 36

Girl Scout Cookie 36

Godfather OG 36

Grapes 36

Harlequin 36

Haze 37

Headband 37

Jack Herer 37

Kosher Kush 37

Lavender 38

Mazar 38

Medicine Man 38

NYC Diesel 38

OG Kush 38

Purple Kush 39

Red Congo 39

Romulan 39

Skunk 39

Sour Diesel 39

Sunset Sherbet 39

Tangle 40

Trainwreck 40

Wedding Cake 40

Part 6 Power Healing with Cannabis

Treatments for 33 Conditions 43

Accidents 44

Addiction and Withdrawal 46

ADHD 49

ALS 51

Anxiety 53

Autism Spectrum Disorder 57

Brain Health 61

Cancer 66

Depression 70

Digestive Health 73

Elder Care and End of Life 77

Epilepsy and Seizures 80

Eye Health 85

Headache 87

Heart Health/Heart Disease 90

Immune System Health 93

Inflammation 96

Influenza 98

Insomnia 101

Intimacy and Fertility 103

Lung Disease 107

Lyme Disease 111

Metabolic Syndrome 114

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) 117

Pain (Acute and Chronic) 120

Parkinson's Disease 125

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 128

Psychological Conditions (Bipolar Disorder [Manic Depression] and Schizophrenia) 131

Skin Conditions 134

Stress 136

Tics and Tourette Syndrome (TS)/Stuttering 139

Weight Management 141

Women's Health 145

Glossary 151

Selected Bibliography 157

Acknowledgments 168

About the Authors 170

Index 172

Photo Credits 179

Other Books in the Series 180