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Focus Altern Complement Ther 2006; 11: 148

Herbal Medicine

Cannabis sativa for morning sickness?

Cannabis sativa may be used therapeutically to mitigate pregnancy-induced nausea and vomiting. This paper presents the results of a survey of 84 female users of medicinal C. sativa, recruited through two compassion societies in British Columbia, Canada. Of the 79 respondents who had experienced pregnancy, 51 (65%) reported using cannabis during their pregnancies. While 59 (77%) of the respondents who had been pregnant had experienced nausea and/or vomiting during pregnancy, 40 (68%) had used cannabis to treat the condition, and of these respondents, 37 (over 92%) rated C. sativa as ‘extremely effective’ or ‘effective’.

Westfall RE, Janssen PA, Lucas P, Capler R. Survey of medicinal cannabis use among childbearing women: patterns of its use in pregnancy and retroactive self-assessment of its efficacy against ‘morning sickness’. Complement Ther Clin Pract 2006; 12: 27–33. [Abstract]
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