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Cannabis flos refers to flowers of cannabis in pharmaceutical quality. Cannabis flos is a suitable medicinal product for vaporization and lung inhalation. The vapor of Cannabis flos contains cannabinoids and terpenes in therapeutic concentrations.
The content of THC, cannabidiol and the chemical precursors ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinolic acid and cannabidiolic acid must be declared.
Quality is defined in the German Pharmacopoeia (DAB).
HMPC: currently no monograph available.
ESCOP: not processed
Commission E: not processed
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see under Tetrahydrocannabinol, see also under Cannabis
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- https://arzneipflanzenlexikon.info/hemp.php
- Blaschek W (2015) Wichtl tea drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Munich. S 140-143
- https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/herbal-monograph/draft-public-statement-cannabis-sativa-l-flos_en.pdf
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer