Michele Ross - CBD Oil for Health: 100 Amazing Benefits and Uses of CBD Oil

CBD oil, also known as cannabidiol, or hemp, oil, is a natural plant extract that has been used for thousands of years to promote health and wellness. Filled with potent antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, it is a wonderful tool for both easing symptoms and reducing the likelihood of them occurring. Today, CBD oil is easier than ever to find in local grocery and health stores and online, as more and more people recognize its healing properties. In fact, recent studies show that the benefits of taking CBD oil range from lowering blood pressure and combating nausea, to protecting the brain and boosting your mood. And while CBD oil comes from Cannabis sativa, it contains little or no THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive chemical responsible for the high produced by smoking or eating marijuana.

CBD Oil for Health offers one hundred easy tricks and step-by-step instructions for putting this amazing little botanical to work for you. With recipes ranging from stomach-soothing shakes and migraine rollerballs, to relaxing massage oils and sleep-promoting tea, youll find something to fit your health needs, and get a daily dose of rejuvenating self-careall with the healing power of plants. And CBD oil is just as powerful for the outside of your body as it is for the inside of it: Youll find recipes for beauty treatments that are fun to make and effective. Transform your hair, nails, and skin with DIY anti-aging and healing therapies such as homemade acne masks, relieving sunburn lotion, and moisturizing shampoo for your scalp.

But before diving into the recipes in this book, be sure to take a look at the following section on CBD oil basics. Here, youll learn more about the history and properties of CBD oil, as well as how to choose the best CBD oil for you. There are also helpful dosing and storage instructions, so you will be able to make the most of each recipe. Its time to rebalance your body and shine from within.

CBD oil can seem complex at first. Cannabinoids, hemp, broad-spectrum, terpenes: There are a lot of terms floating around when it comes to this little product. You may have never even heard of the endocannabinoid system and why its so important that CBD oil activates it. Fortunately, this section is here to help. Youll learn the ins and outs of CBD oilfrom what it is and its deep-rooted history to the different chemical components of CBD oil and what benefits each offers for your mental and physical health. Youll also take a closer look at the different types of CBD oil, why you might buy one over another, and how to safely use CBD oil. With a proper understanding of what CBD oil is and how it works, youll be able to confidently purchase your own CBD oil and use it for the health and beauty benefits in this book.

CBD oil is an extract made from the hemp plant. Also known as Cannabis sativa, hemp is grown across the world for countless industrial and food applications. While CBD oil can be made from any part of the hemp plant besides the seeds, fiber from the stems can also be manufactured into paper, clothing, and rope, and seeds can be processed to create edible products such as hemp seed oil. CBD stands for cannabidiol, which is the most abundant of several cannabinoids found in the oil. You will explore the different chemical elements of CBD oil and their benefits later in this section.

Your brain cells communicate to each other with chemical signals called neurotransmitters. The largest neurotransmitter system in the body is called the endocannabinoid system, and is made of chemical signals called endocannabinoids and receptors called cannabinoid receptors. There are more endocannabinoids in your body than there are dopamine, serotonin, GABA, or any other neurotransmitter, and cannabinoid receptors are found in every single part of your body.

The main active ingredient in CBD oil, cannabidiol, actually boosts levels of your main endocannabinoid, anandamide, which binds to cannabinoid receptors and activates pathways that reduce inflammation, pain, and unease. CBD can even activate receptors outside the endocannabinoid system, like serotonin receptors, which regulate key body functions like sleep, appetite, mood, and even sex drivemaking CBD oil a versatile tool for restoring balance to the brain and body.

Cannabis oil rich in CBD (as well as THC) was used medically as early as 1800 B.C ., with ancient Egyptian, Indian, and Chinese medical texts referring to it. Moving forward in time, people in the first American colonies and even George Washington himself grew hemp; in the 1800s, Englands Queen Victoria used CBD oil to treat menstrual cramps.

In 1906, however, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mistakenly lumped together hemp and cannabis, and labeled them as dangerous and addictive drugs. As a result, medical use of cannabis in the United States sharply declined. The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970 made cannabinoids (including CBD) illegal, further diminishing its use.

Fortunately, in 1980, Israeli scientist Dr. Raphael Mechoulam found evidence that CBD oil could reduce seizures in children; in 2013, a documentary airing on CNN brought CBD oil into the mainstream media. Recently, the 2018 Farm Bill legalized industrial hemp production and removed CBD from the CSA, making CBD oil fully legal in the United States. Since CBD was legalized, scientific research on it has exploded, with over 2,750 peer-reviewed studies published on its benefits.

CBD oils unique combination of hundreds of phytochemicals acts on every cell in the body and brain, providing numerous benefits for your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Well go over each one of these important chemical properties of CBD oil and describe how it works.

Cannabinoids are groups of chemical compounds produced by the Cannabis sativa plant; each cannabinoid activates our bodys endocannabinoid system differently to produce different health and beauty benefits. Cannabidiol or CBD is one of the more than one hundred cannabinoids that come from the cannabis plant. Despite the name, CBD oil contains many different cannabinoids. The cannabinoids most enriched in CBD oil are the following:

• Cannabidiol (CBD): Making up 40 percent or more of CBD oil, CBD works primarily by increasing levels of the endocannabinoid anandamide as well as activating serotonin receptors.
• Cannabidiolic acid (CBDA): The parent of CBD preserved in some raw CBD oil products, CBDA is effective at boosting mood and reducing nausea.
• Cannabinol (CBN): The THC in full-spectrum CBD slowly breaks down over months and turns into CBN, a powerful sedative and analgesic that makes up less than 0.3 percent of CBD oil.
• Cannabigerol (CBG): Certain hemp strains are rich in CBG, which is nonpsychoactive and has strong antibacterial, anticancer, and anti-inflammatory properties. CBG can make up anywhere from 1 percent to 20 percent of CBD oil.
• Cannabichromene (CBC): This cannabinoid fights cancer and inflammation while boosting brain cell growthall without the high of THC, and makes up less than 1 percent of CBD oil.
• Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC): The psychoactive cannabinoid that gets you high is not found in broad-spectrum CBD oil or CBD oil made from isolate, which is discussed later in this section. THC makes up less than 0.3 percent of full-spectrum CBD oil, so it wont have the same psychological effects on you, but will still be effective in relieving pain and reducing inflammation and spasms.