Caryophyllene for inflammation

If you’re someone who likes strains of cannabis for your health and wellness, you may want to look at beta-caryophyllene to help with a variety of problems, including inflammation. While it’s not found in every strain, and every single  strain is quite different, this is something that has a unique property that’s added to the cannabis plant. Terpenes of course, are something that’s good for plant protection, but it’s also something that also helps us humans in different ways. Caryophyllene which is something that has a peppery smell to it, is one of the best terpenes out there for inflammation and chronic pain, and it does have the potential to speed up the healing of various wounds and injuries, according to a study done in 2019. 

How it works 

This is something that works by using the endocannabinoid system. Cannabinoids of course, are used for pain relief and treatment, through the activation of your CB1 and your CB2 receptors, and this is something that works to help with treating pain. It also a sesquiterpene that’s found in some of the various essential oils that are out there and even some spices such as cinnamon, oregano, and black pepper. 

This does bind directly to the CB2 receptors, and it was an agonist for this. For those who don’t know the terms, basically your have a whole system that’s in your body for controlling virtually everything that’s there, including pain responses. Caryophyllene does work as an agonist, which is a fancy name for a binder of chemicals, which then does reduce the response of pain. for thousands of years, people used this as a way to treat various problems, including pain, spasms and the like, and this is something that’s powerful, fights pain, and it offers a variety of different effects on the body. 

So it does work with the body to ensure that you have different pain symptoms treated, and the issues taken care of. 

Cancer studies 

Did you know that caryophyllene is something that actually has been found to possibly help with the treatment of cancer. It has anti-cancer properties and is something that’s not as recognized compared to other cannabinoids, especially THC, which does have tumor-slowing potential, but there is evidence that demonstrates that the compounds in this may be interesting for possibly treating cancer in the future. 

In a study done in 2016, it wsa found that caryophyllene is something that has pain-reducing aspects to this, and it is something that they acknowledge may be good for meriting research in the future. Right now though, we don’t know much about this, but we do believe that since it’s good for reducing pain and inflammation, that it may also have some anti-oxidant properties to this too, which is responsible for the reduction and also elimination of free radicals within the body, helping the body properly recover as well. 

With that said, caryophyllene is not a substitute for regular treatments of different problems in the body, including any cancer treatments which you may have, but it could be good as a way to supplement all of this. This terpene is present in quite a few of the strains, and if you’re curious about this, you can definitely talk to someone at a dispensary, along with your doctor to find out if this may help with pain relief, since it might be something that’s good for reducing pain, controlling your body’s immune response and also making it easier for you to properly take care of the body, and to reduce the problems that you might have in the future.