China cannabis

In ancient China, Cannabis was used together with other herbs for rheumatic pains, disorders of the female reproductive tract, absent-mindedness, malaria (probably for the headache caused by the disease) as well as for beri-beri [3, 16-18]. When however, the fruits of hemp were taken in excess, it was known that they could cause seeing devils . Cannabis in wine was used as an anaesthetic in major operations [19]. As Cannabis is only a minor pain killer, one can assume that large stupefying doses were administered. 

There is evidence for Cannabis use as early as 5,000 B.C. in Central Europe and there are probable references to it in the earliest writings of China and Egypt. The frozen tombs of the inhabitants of Siberia in about 500 B.C. have yielded quantities of seeds along with a variety of devices for burning them. A very hot, dry climate appears necessary for producing grass with high psychedelic activity, which may account for the failure to use Cannabis as an intoxicant in Northwestern Europe. ... 

Cannabis is one of civiiization s oidest cuitivated nonfood plants, and does not seem to exist anymore in its wiid form (figure 10.1). In addition to its psychoactive effects, the cannabis plant has also been used for its fibers. Hemp fibers have been found in China dating from 4000 B.C.E., and hemp ropes were dated to 3000 B.C.E. in Turkestan, but it is not certain that cannabis was used for psychoactive purposes at those piaces and times (Schuites and Hofman 1992). 

Hemp Cannabis sativa Flowers, leaves Marihuana tetrahydrocannabinol Smoked Sedative Worldwide Origin China... 

Cannabis sativa L. (hemp) is a dioecious annual flowering plant. Marihuana is the Spanish name for the dried leaves and female flowering tops of the hemp plant. Hashish is the resin which originates from these female flowering tops. The hemp s natural homeland is most likely in the regions north of Afghanistan and the Altai mountains of southern Siberia (Russia). It is not clear when and where cultivation of hemp Cannabis sativa L.) started. It seems most likely that the cultivation of hemp may have originated in northeastern Asia (north and north-east China and southeastern Siberia). 

Li Hui-Lin An archeological and historical account of Cannabis in China, Econ Bot 28 437M48, 1974. 

Native to Central Asia and long cultivated in Asia, Europe, and China. Now a widespread tropical, temperate, and subarctic cultivar. Cannabis saliva has been cultivated for more than 4500 years for different purposes, such as fiber, oil, or narcotics. The oldest use of hemp is for fiber, and later the seeds were used for culinary purposes. Plants yielding the drug were discovered in India, cultivated for medicinal purposes as early as 900 BC. In medieval times, it was brought to North Africa, where currently it is cultivated exclusively for hashish or kif. 

Cannabis sativa L. China Vitamin Bj vitamin B2 muscarine, choline, trigonelline, l(d)-isoleucine betaine, cannabinol, tetra-hydrocannobinol, cannabidiol.33 Purgative, stimulate intestinal mucosa causing an increase in secretions and peristalsis. 

As with the opium poppy, the hemp plant (cannabis sativa) was also known in ancient times. It probably was first grown in Central Asia and China but soon spread to India and the Middle East. Ancient healers found that the plant could reduce pain, promote relaxation, and stimulate the appetite—all ways of helping a sick person recover. 

Cannabis was used in China and India, spreading slowly through Persia to the Arabs, and it probably was introduced into European and American materia medica about the time of Napoleon. 

The hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, has been known for its commercial use as a source of hemp for the manufacture of rope, sacking and so on for well over 2000 years. The hemp seeds have also been used as a source of oil, as an animal feed and as a form of soap, while the leaves were first used in China because of the psychoactive ingredients they contained. From China, the... 

The earliest reference to mind-altering effects from Cannabis appears in the Atharva-Veda of the second millenium B.C., when it was already regarded as one of the five sacred plants of India. Ernest L. Abel in his Marihuana The First Twelve Thousand Years, describes much of the early use of Cannabis in the daily life of China and India. Schultes and Hofmann in Plants of the Gods document its use in Tibet ... 

Of the three species of Cannabis, the sativa type was the first to be spread widely around the globe, probably because of its having strong fibers and lots of edible seeds. The earliest known pharmacy book, published in China in the third millenium B.C. recommends hemp for everything from rheumatism to constipation—even absent-mindedness. 

Throughout history, Cannabis has been appreciated as a healing herb. By the time of Christ it was used in India and China for the relief of pain, reduction of fever, surgery, stimulation of appetite and treatment of diarrhea, dysentery, bronchitis, migraine, insomnia and a variety of neurological diseases. Between 1840 and 1900, more than a hundred contributions were made to the Western medical literature that recommended Cannabis for one ailment or another. 

F The use of Cannabis sativa dates back to around 2700 B.C. in China, where it was recommended by Emperor Shen Nung for the treatment of various ailments. 

Cannabinoids are a specific class of psychoactive compounds present in Indian cannabis (Cannabis sativa), including about 60 different molecules, the most representative being cannabinol, canna-bidiol and several isomers of tetrahydrocannabinol. Knowledge of the therapeutic activity of cannabis dates back to the ancient dynasties in China, where, already 5,000 years ago, cannabis was used for the treatment of asthma, migraine and some gynaecologic disorders. Said use later became so established that about in 1850 cannabis extracts were included in the US Pharmacopaeia and remained therein until 1947. 

The earliest record of man s use of cannabis comes from the island of Taiwan located off the coast of mainland China. In this densely populated part of the world, archaeologists have unearthed an ancient village site dating back over 10,000 years to the Stone Age. 

Wherever the people of the ancient world roamed, they carried with them the seeds of the precious cannabis plant. From China in the east to the Rhone Valley in the west, the seeds were spread. Cold weather, hot weather, wet or dry, fertile soil or barren, the seeds were not to be denied. 

As presently classified, cannabis is included along with the hops plant (Humulus) in a distinct family called Cannabaceae, although some botanists still prefer to assign it to the Moraceae family which also includes the mulberry plant to which cannabis was closely tied in ancient China. 

The origin of the cannabis plant is generally placed in Central Asia, and from there it is believed to have spread to China, India, Persia, the Arab countries, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. 

Li, H. L. An archaeological and historical account of cannabis in China. Economic Botany, 1974, 28, 437-448. 

Touw, M. 1981. The religious and medicinal uses of Cannabis In China, India and Tibet Journal of Psychoactive 13 (i) ... 

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