As the story goes, somebody ate an apple they weren’t supposed to eat a real long time ago and it resulted in women’s uteruses hating them once a month, or twice when they’re feeling especially devilish.
Seriously, menstrual cramps hurt. And for women who’ve been seeking ways to ease the god-awful pain that can only accurately be described as kneading your insides with a rolling pin, there’s weed. Good ol’ fashioned weed. Yep, the very same weed that’s already been helpful to people battling cancer, arthritis, glaucoma, and countless ailments may also treat menstrual cramps. And, as urologist and noted sex health expert Dr. Jennifer Berman pointed out to Broadly, treating period cramps with marijuana isn’t crazy-talk.
“When a woman experiences menstrual cramps, the uterus is contracting,” Dr. Berman told the website. “The muscle goes into spasm, and it releases inflammatory mediators that exacerbate pain. Cannabis, in general, works to relieve muscle spasms by increasing blood flow and decreasing muscle contractions. When you increase blood flow, you help to restore oxygenation to the tissue, thereby decreasing inflammation and lessening discomfort.”
And just how are women supposed to get weed up their vaginas? There’s a suppository for that.
Mathew Gerson’s Foria company debuted a “THC-enhanced lubricant to increase female pleasure” called Foria Pleasure in Spring 2014 that turned out to also ease women’s menstrual cramps. “Large numbers of women were sharing with us the pain-relieving benefits they were experiencing using Foria Pleasure [the spray],” Gerson said. “Not just for menstrual cramps, but for endometriosis and pelvic pain.”
Naturally, Gerson and Dr. Berman got together to come up with Foria Relief, “the first vaginal suppository designed to ease menstrual cramps.” Made from medical cannabis oil, distilled THC oil, and cocoa butter, the website claims Foria Relief “uses a delivery system intended to maximize the muscle relaxing and pain relieving properties of cannabis without inducing a psychotropic ‘high'”.
The $22 suppositories are about an inch-long and are made from cocoa butter, which means you’ll need to wear a panty liner since the cocoa butter is going to melt. Each suppository contains 60mg of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) to help with blocking pain and 10mg of CBD (cannabidiol) to quell inflammation. The company advises women to insert the suppository “as far up as you can go” when using Foria Relief for results, which some women experience as soon as 15 minutes after insertion.
Speaking for myself, I’m much more inclined to try these than the vagina detox balls. My uterus isn’t depressed or in need of detoxing, but it does get angry and needs to chill the hell out sometimes. Maybe it just needs to get high?
(Via Broadly)
