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Strain-Specific Medicine

🩺 Medicine First mentioned: Ep. 037

The practice of selecting specific cannabis cultivars with known cannabinoid and terpene profiles to treat particular medical conditions. Unlike generic cannabis prescriptions, strain-specific medicine matches the biochemical composition of a cultivar to a patient's needs.

Cheryl T Rose described how trying different strains led her to discover that a high-CBD cultivar now known as 'Haley's Comet' dramatically reduced her daughter's seizures from 40 per day to near-zero within nine months.

Ep. 037 Cheryl T Rose, Dravet Syndrome & Strain-Specific CBD Dosing