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Conventional medicine provides very few treatment options for neuropathy. You can take painkillers or tough it out, and that\u2019s pretty much it.<\/p>\nConventional medicine provides very few treatment options for neuropathy. You can take painkillers or tough it out, and that\u2019s pretty much it.<\/p>\n
But a new study published in Supportive Care in Cancer<\/em> may change all that.<\/p>\n Results revealed how a specific natural oil can drastically improve, even eliminate, neuropathy pain and other complications.<\/p>\n Scientists from three medical and academic institutions in Denmark teamed up to test the effects of cannabidiol (CBD) oil on neuropathy.<\/p>\n Some chemotherapy agents like carboplatin and paclitaxel (Carbo-Tax) and capecitabine and oxaliplatin (CAPOX) are known to cause severe peripheral and even central neuropathy in which swallowing is affected. <\/p>\n The scientists recruited 54 cancer patients who were scheduled to receive these chemotherapy agents between March and December 2021.<\/p>\n The participants received CBD oil and were compared with other cancer patients receiving no treatment for neuropathy.<\/p>\n The CBD dose was 150 milligrams twice a day for a daily total of 300 milligrams.<\/p>\n Participants started the treatment 1 day before the beginning of their chemotherapy sessions and continued the treatment for 8 days.<\/p>\n Researchers measured the patients\u2019 progress or lack thereof via self-report questionnaires completed before the commencement of treatment and every day thereafter until the end of the 8-day period.<\/p>\n Researchers also performed multi-frequency vibrometry before the treatment and again after 4 days of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n Multi-frequency vibrometry is a scan that measures the amount of information that passes through our sensory nerves. It is a way to check whether these nerves conduct the right amount of information or too much information, as in people with neuropathy.<\/p>\n Can you guess what they found?<\/p>\n 1. The CBD-treated patients showed the least amount of change on the multi-frequency vibrometry scans, indicating that their sensory nerves did not suddenly start passing inappropriate pain signals like those of the untreated patients.<\/p>\n 2. The CBD-treated patients reported experiencing less pain.<\/p>\n 3. The CBD-treated patients reported experiencing less cold sensitivity to touch and less discomfort when swallowing cold liquids.<\/p>\n 4. The CBD-treated patients reported experiencing less difficulty swallowing.<\/p>\n 5. CBD worked best for pain relief in those who received Carbo-Tax and best for cold sensitivity and swallowing in people who received CAPOX.<\/p>\n Whether CBD oil works equally well for diabetic neuropathy patients is not something we can definitively conclude from this study.<\/p>\n And CBD oil didn\u2019t eliminate or prevent neuropathy in this study although it made it better.<\/p>\n