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Topical CBD quickly and effectively kills off deadly fungal infections | The discovery comes as the World Health Organization urgently calls for new treatments for potentially deadly fungal infections.
Two bioactive ingredients in cannabis have been found to have antifungal properties when applied topically, according to a groundbreaking new study. The discovery comes as the World Health Organization urgently calls for new treatments for potentially deadly fungal infections.
For the first time ever, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported on the urgent need for improved tests and treatments for fungal infections and listed the potentially deadly Cryptococcus neoformans as a priority. New research led by Australia’s Macquarie University has demonstrated that two of the bioactive ingredients in cannabis, the cannabinoids cannabidiol(CBD) and cannabidivarin(CBDV), have impressive antifungal properties when used topically. “When Cryptococcus neoformans gets to your nervous system, it causes life-threatening meningitis,” said Dr Hue Dinh, the study’s lead author and a postdoctoral research fellow in Macquarie’s School of Natural Science.
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