CBD is being called a wellness miracle and according to some studies has shown unbelievable healing properties for various conditions.
Scientists in Australia have found that CBD killed all the strains of bacteria they tested in a lab. Some of these strains are highly resistant to existing antibiotics.
Additionally, the bacteria did not become resistant to the drug after being exposed for 20 days.
Study leader Mark Blaskovich, senior research chemist at the Centre for Superbug Solutions, told Newsweek: “We still don’t know how it works, and it may have a unique mechanism of action given it works against bacteria that have become resistant to other antibiotics, but we still don’t know how.”
“So far, we have only shown it works topically, on the skin surface. To be really useful, it would be good if we could show that it treated systemic infections e.g. pneumonia, or complicated tissue infections, where you have to give it orally or by intravenous dosing. A very preliminary study didn’t show that it works in these more difficult models.”
“The most challenging part [of the study] was getting the correct permits to handle cannabidiol in our laboratories, as the Queensland government regulates who can use/handle it—even though the material we are using is completely synthetic, it falls into this grey area under the definitions of cannabinoids,” he explained.
