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UK: Cannabis may help relieve bowel disease
Anna Seward The Telegraph
Monday 01 Aug 2005 Drugs derived from cannabis plants could help to relieve symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease, according to research published today. Researchers examined anecdotal evidence that cannabis eases the unpleasant symptoms associated with the disease. Their findings, published in the journal Gastroenterology, will give hope for sufferers of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, forms of IBD which affect up to 180,000 people in Britain. The disease causes recurrent bouts of severe abdominal pain, diarrhoea, fever and weight loss, and puts sufferers at a greater risk of bowel cancer. Patients are usually treated with steroids to reduce the inflammation and surgery is sometimes required to remove damaged parts of the intestine, but there is currently no cure for Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. Dr Karen Wright, of the department of pharmacy and pharmacology at the University of Bath, who led the study, said that using cannabinoids, a cannabis extract, helped the body recover from some effects of the diseases and heal the gut lining.
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