Cannabidiol found to dramatically decrease frequency of epilepsy seizures

Even as the pharmaceutical industry has continued to develop a steady stream of new drugs for treating epilepsy, not much has changed in terms of the overall number of drug-resistant cases of the neurological disease – suggesting that the drugs just aren’t working. This is why many people are now turning to all-natural cannabidiol instead.

A recent scientific review of cannabidiol, a major constituent of the cannabis plant that’s commonly referred to as CBD, found that this powerful cannabinoid actually works better than pharmaceuticals at keeping epilepsy under control – though how it does this is still unknown.

Researchers from the United Kingdom looked at three different papers for their review discussing the clinical uses of CBD for treating multiple variations of epilepsy. The first describes a small case series in which CBD was used to treat a rare pediatric epilepsy syndrome known as febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome, or FIRES.