Leontina Elena Filipiuc, Daniela Carmen Ababei, Teodora Alexa-Stratulat, Cosmin Vasilica Pricope, Veronica Bild, Raluca Stefanescu, Gabriela Dumitrita Stanciu, Bogdan-Ionel Tamba
The most important discoveries in pharmacology, such as certain classes of analgesics or chemotherapeutics, started from natural extracts which have been found to have effects in traditional medicine. Cannabis, traditionally used in Asia for the treatment of pain, nausea, spasms, sleep, depression, and low appetite, is still a good candidate for the development of new compounds. If initially all attention was directed to the endocannabinoid system, recent studies suggest that many of the clinically proven effects are based on an intrinsic chain of mechanisms that do not necessarily involve only cannabinoid receptors...
November 1, 2021: Pharmaceutics