Ok so terpenes do alleviate pain/inflammation but according to this research, only when injected. They suggest oral/Inhalation admin is placebo. Interesting study, I suggest reading the entire article! Of course these people have a vested interest in suggesting that smoking/vaping don’t work & this was a mouse model. Anyone here can tell you it’s not placebo.
I hope one day AI replaces mass mouse torture for our science.
I’ve drank enough terpenes (there is some beverage companies that make them into drinks) to know that there isn’t really an effect thru that method of administration.
Over all, it seems like a really good news for cannabis smokers as well, isn’t it?
It clearly suggests that terpene has significant (doesn’t mean a big but means it did not happen coincidently and had a true effect) influence in pain relieve.
And I think many substances in the world has better effect from injection than oral/inhale, isn’t it? Like injection you straight put terpenes to your blood stream and oral/inhale has to digest or filter trough your tommy and lungs LOL.
Also, it just says, oral and inhale method had less terps bioavailability and that they need further research about this (but this is not the interest of the paper, they are aimed to see if terpene has impact on pain/inflammation sort)
So they only suggested a good thing for us, i think!