{"id":2280,"date":"2022-09-05T03:11:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2022-09-05T03:11:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:11:13","slug":"medical-cannabis-shows-promise-as-potential-migraine-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Medical cannabis shows promise as potential migraine treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Migraine\u00a0\u2014 the severe, recurring headaches often accompanied by other symptoms \u2014 affect\u00a0more than 1 billion peopleTrusted Source\u00a0around the world every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Migraine headaches are also the\u00a0second leading cause of disabilityTrusted Source\u00a0globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors primarily treat migraine with different types of pain medications, all of which have potential side effects.\u00a0Past researchTrusted Source\u00a0shows two-thirds of people with severe headaches and migraine sometimes delay or avoid taking prescribed medications due to side effects concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a new\u00a0study, researchers at the University of Arizona say they have found evidence supporting the use of\u00a0medical cannabis\u00a0for the treatment of migraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scientists say medical cannabis can help lower a person\u2019s migraine frequency per month and reduces\u00a0nausea and vomitingTrusted Sourceassociated with migraine attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/medical-cannabis-shows-promise-as-potential-migraine-treatment#Further-research-needed\">Medical News Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migraine\u00a0\u2014 the severe, recurring headaches often accompanied by other symptoms \u2014 affect\u00a0more than 1 billion peopleTrusted Source\u00a0around the world every&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}