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• <br /> 0 <br /> Cannabis sativa: • <br /> • <br /> . • one of the most important med <br /> by Glen Martin Swartwout, A.B. (Dartmouth College), B.D. (honorary, Universal <br /> Brotherhood Movement, licensed Minister), O.D. (State University of New York, licensed <br /> Doctor of Optometry), F.I.C.A N. (Fellow, International College of Applied Nutrition), <br /> F.C.S.O. (Fellow, College of Syntonic Optometry), with a doctorate in natural medicine <br /> from Clayton School <br /> The World Health Organization has acknowledged that traditional • <br /> herbal medicines are absolutely essential to the healthcare of the world's <br /> population. There is no question of caring for world -wide health needs <br /> without herbal medicine. There is no question regarding the sustainability <br /> and ecological wisdom of such an approach. What is in question in <br /> America in the latter portion of the 20th Century is the health and medical RECEIVED <br /> freedom to access a God -given source of healing. _ By <br /> ���County Council <br /> Cannabis sativa in Herbal Medicine <br /> Genesis 1:29 states that God has given us every herb, bearing seed to <br /> use for food and medicine. <br /> Cannabis sativa was historically, and is still, a major herbal and <br /> homeopathic medicine. <br /> • <br /> King's American Dispensatory lists the effects of as "anodyne, <br /> hypnotic, antispasmodic and phrenic, producing sleep even where <br /> morphine has failed, and without impairing the appetite, repressing the <br /> secretions, or causing constipation like opium and its preparations. It <br /> frequently allays pain, and has been found of great benefit in hysteria, <br /> chorea, and other nervous affections." In moderate doses, it "lessens pain, <br /> checks spasmodic action, improves the appetite, causes sleep, [and] <br /> exhilaration of spirits." "Medicinally, in small doses, its effects are less <br /> intense than those of opium, and the excretions are not so much suppressed <br /> by it; it does not disturb digestion, rather increases the appetite, seldom <br /> induces sickness of the stomach, never causes congestion, and disturbs the <br /> expectoration far less than opium, also effects [s.i.c.] the nervous system <br /> much less, and produces a more natural sleep without interfering with the • <br /> actions of the internal organs. Cannabis is one of the most • important <br /> of our remedies [emphasis added], but like our best agents, it must no be <br /> Cotes. Na. <br /> Fite <br /> Presented CO"" `"— <br /> Bet <br /> Rot. r> AEC 2 3 1998 <br />