musculoskeletal pain
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I wonder whether terpene profiles affect medical usefulness, as well as cannabinoids.
It is known that different types of musculoskeletal pain relate to different tissues. What are the adjectives you use to describe your pain?
Muscle. Cramping, dull, aching.
Nerve root. Sharp, shooting.
Nerve. Sharp, bright, lightning like.
Sympathetic nerve. Burning, pressure like, stinging, aching.
Bone. Deep, nagging, dull.
Fracture, Sharp, severe, intolerable.
Vasculature. Throbbing, diffuse.
Ok, so the last two you want to think about a doctor before reaching for your stash. We’re not trying to replace medicine, but to augment it.
Maybe this research has been done? I haven’t found it. I want to know if there is a pattern in terpene profiles across different strains people are having success with? Especially for targeting discrete
types of pain.
And if the work has been done already I’m still interested to follow up with each of you what works and why. This way we’ll (theoretically, anyway) get some results that - at an amateur level - are repeatable across the board.
With this in mind I am proposing a data harvest that will include information like:
Plant:
Strain (if known) ie. THC:CBD%ages
Known
terpenes (by either test or taste)
Trichomes at harvest, milky vs amber
Whether
slow dried and
cured
HST: Whether plants forced into drought in 7th week of flower (known to increase terpene production)
Pain:
Type and/or
location of pain
A way to
grade pain felt on a scale between banging and bitching. (I struggle with this one, myself). This is supposed to be subjective.
Grading relief on similar, plus
duration of relief
Medicine:
Form of
ingestion: smoking, vaping herb, vaping extracts, dabbing, edibles, oils solvent or solventless, oral or per rectal delivery.
Frequency/quantity of
dose.
Did
you make your own extract, if so
how?
What have I missed?
If anyone wants to help pursue this I will crunch the data. I’ll start by putting a questionnaire together - the shorter the better.
Thoughts?
(PS. Don’t worry there will be plant pics!)