Human Immunodeficiency Virus is better known as HIV. It actually damages or kills the human body’s immune system cells. The developed immunodeficiency syndrome is called AIDS. It is actually HIV infection’s advanced stage. In this article, let us learn if there are any possibilities of curing aids through cannabis.
Recently, scientists have spread awareness and made people understand that cannabis can be helpful for treating the symptoms of AIDS/ HIV.
The first symptoms of HIV infection might be flu-like symptoms and swollen glands. The flu-like symptoms may come and go for even a month or two after infection. However, drastic symptoms might not be seen until months or even years later.
HIV is widely spread when people have unprotected sex with a person who is infected. It might also spread when drug needles are shared or through exchange with the blood of an infected person. Furthermore, pregnant women having HIV will end up passing it to their babies.
AIDS deteriorating syndrome is an extreme complication of HIV infection prior to the arrival of protease-inhibitor drugs and has been related to major weight loss, cachexia, and other conditions, which weaken the immune system and cause unscrupulous infections. Cannabis has been a regular working substitute medicine for the condition, specifically in US because of its testified benefits on appetite and enhancement of other AIDS indications.
Thus, if properly monitored and prescribed, medical cannabis can offer vast benefits for the well-being and health of people who are suffering from various symptoms of HIV/AIDS. The scientists are even experimenting on the active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana to save people who are affected by HIV infection.
They have also found that THC can cure RIV virus in monkeys, which is almost similar to the HIV virus in humans. This is in fact good news and very encouraging, but the biggest disadvantage to this good news is the current law restriction on testing it on humans. With the altering of these prohibited rules, HIV infections have a huge opportunity of being cured through cannabis as it a real promising player in the race to end this disease.
