Medical breakthrough: Cannabis gel is supposed to reduce seizures in epileptics

Medical Nilgun Salim
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A medicine based on cannabis was tested on patients diagnosed with epilepsy. According to the Australian experts, the drug might reduce the numbers of seizures writes Xinhua News.

The remedy is the subject of a clinic trial conducted for the first time in Australia by a group of scientists from Melbourne.

Terry O’Brien works as a neurologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and he is also the leader of the project. Terry stated that the main reason they are struggling to create this remedy is the 30% of the epileptics who suffers from a neurological form of the disease, which is also resistant to the traditional drugs.

O’Brien explained that the cannabis gel is a remedy in which the hallucinogenic properties of the plant were removed and it is more effective than the normal medicines administrated orally.

‘The Cannabidiol (a non-psychoactive component of cannabis) is first metabolized by the liver’ said O’Brien for News Limited.

‘This means that we do not know exactly how much of the drug reaches the brain because most of it is metabolized in the liver and stomach’ said the scientist.

‘Many people who suffer from uncontrolled epilepsy are very willing to try Cannabidiol and this is the first randomized control test conducted by adults in Australia and internationally’ added O’Brien.

In Australia, 500,000 people are diagnosed with epilepsy. The test was conducted on 180 patients. The effects were documented yet.

According to Herald Sun, the marijuana gel has to be rubbed on the arms of the patients. After its absorbed by the skin, the gel called ZYNOO2 it’s supposed to reduce the seizures in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.