Cannabinoids for gastrointestinal diseases: potential therapeutic applications

“…pharmacological modulation of the endogenous cannabinoid system could provide new therapeutics for the treatment of a number of gastrointestinal diseases, including nausea and vomiting, gastric ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, secretory diarrhoea, paralytic ileus and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Some cannabinoids are already in use…”

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12517253

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