CBD is helpful in the prevention and the treatment of some viruses including covid and hepatitis C, but there are others that aren’t actually affected. There have been some in vitro studies and some controlled environments that suggest that this may be helpful for some viruses, but not for every single one of them out there.
The Effectiveness in Studies
Right now, studies show that the extracts of this, including CBD and the like, improve the natural response that’s there to treat along with the prevention of some viral infections. With the pandemic still being a big thing, there are studies that look at how effective the current medications are against the treatment of the COVID-19 virus.
CBD actually came out as a possible treatment for COVID due to the way it treats the symptoms, one of them being infection. It also lessens the symptoms of this, and it also prevents the replication of the virus within the lung cells of humans. Before this sudden surge of this information on it, there was some research already that was showing that CBD may be a good antiviral. It can help against hepatitis C, but not against hepatitis B viruses.
It also found that it may help with Kaposi’s sarcoma associated herpes viruses and it was also seen that it could actually trigger cell apoptosis as well.
How this works
While cannabis is something that’s been used for a long time as a specific kind of medicine, this is something that's only recently gained traction.
The different effects of this tend to be twofold.
The first thing that it does is it helps with the inflammatory responses, so it prevents the autoimmune damage that’s out there. it then works directly with your immune system in order to replicate and prevent the way that the virus is spread.
For COVID, it actually is something that does infect the host cells and replicate.
It actually is used to stop the replication process of the covid virus.
In order for something to infect your cells, the virus needs to enter, and the SARSA-CO-V-2 was discovered when it binds directly to your ACE2 receptors, which is a protein that's found outside of the cells where humans are, and then the RNA gets in there to make the viral copies.
CBD and the metabolites of this actually prevent the RNA from getting into the host cells, and also prevents the genes from also being expressed as well. It also prevents the host cell from copying, but also it can destroy the RNA, and then, remove the entire infection.
For hepatitis C, this can lead to major damages, and usually, liver fibrosis is one of the big implications of this.
CBD can help directly with this. Since liver fibrosis occurs when the immune system attacks these healthy cells, this can actually prevent this damage from happening, destroying the tissue that’s there, and preventing the extracellular proteins from building up that would cause liver failure.
Right now, we don’t really know how deep this can get. It can, however, help with reducing the way that the hepatitis C cells do spread within the liver.
Right now, the treatment is still in the in vitro stages, and it has yet to hit the clinical trials, the non-toxicity of the CBD and the oil itself also hints at this working as a form of antiviral treatment.
Some people have found that it works to put this on different sores, and also can work with chicken pox and cold sores, in order to spread the healing.
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