Do all plants produce Cannabinoids?

 

Originally scientists thought that cannabinoids were only found in Cannabis. Today we know as the ancients have always known, that Phytocannabinoids (plant cannabinoids) are present in many plants, for example Echinacea, Clove, Pepper, cocoa, broccoli, carrots, ginseng, legumes, liverwort, Magnolia, truffles, Maca, turmeric, ginger, flax, lavender, rosemary, cinnamon to name a few and even fungi.

I personally believe that all plants contain versions of cannabinoids that are essential for protecting plants again UV rays and cannabinoids are known to form part of plant’s internal defense mechanism.

Cannabinoids are really bioavailable terpenoids!

We must remember that plant cannabinoids have their genetic and botanical origins in the plants’ terpenes because terpenes and terpenoids do share a precursor with plant cannabinoids known as Olivetolic acid.

Here is a quote from the Metabolites Journal where you can do more research.

“In this context, it is interesting that cannabinoids and terpenoids share a common biosynthetic origin.”

You can read the full paper here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6670104/

This is why we know that terpenes (all classifications) are cannabimimetic meaning that they interact with the Endocannabinoid System because they have the same healing properties as cannabinoids. 

This also means that most plants can interact with the Endocannabinoid System and this naturally highlights the importance of plant medicine today.

To highlight my point I recently did a study of 3 South African plants that can offer healing for diabetic conditions. Cannabis sativa L, Sutherlandia frutescens and Protea repens aka Sugar Bush.

The common denominator in these 3 plants is a terpene known as Linalool that is known to modulate blood sugar levels. 

Linalool can also assist with pain, insomnia, memory, cognition, depression, cancer, bacterial infections, inflammation and is also very useful for heart health.

You can read my paper on diabetes on this link:

https://xhosastyles.blogspot.com/2022/05/healing-diabetes-with-herbal-tea.html