Medical strains

Hey, first of all—really sorry to hear about your aunt’s diagnosis. What you’re doing for her is honestly amazing, and it sounds like you’ve put a lot of thought into the strain selection. Helping someone manage chemo side effects with cannabis can make a huge difference in their quality of life. Your plan looks solid: Stress Killer in the morning makes sense—it’s uplifting without being too strong, and that CBD helps keep anxiety in check. Royal Highness is a great balanced hybrid. Perfect for nausea, pain, and general support after meals. And Tatanka (pure CBD) before bed is a nice, calming option—especially for inflammation and sleep. If you’re thinking of adding one more strain, you might want to look into something like Cannatonic or Harlequin—both are known for their balanced THC/CBD ratio and are great for pain and relaxation without making someone feel too “high.” A mild indica or hybrid with 5–10% THC could also help for evenings when pain or restlessness is more intense. A couple extra tips: Vaporizing is gentler than smoking, especially if her lungs are sensitive or her immune system is low. Start with small doses, especially with THC, and slowly increase as needed. Everyone reacts differently, especially during chemo. Keep a simple journal to track which strains work best for which symptoms—it really helps to dial things in over time. Hydration is super important, especially if she’s using THC and also dealing with chemo’s dehydrating effects.

Hey Growmie, First off, major respect for stepping up to help your aunt during such a tough time. Your strain selection shows thoughtful planning, especially the balance of THC and CBD for targeted relief throughout the day. Using Stress Killer in the morning for appetite and anxiety, Royal Highness for nausea and pain post-chemo, and Tatanka for inflammation and sleep is a smart, well-rounded approach. One suggestion: consider introducing a high-myrcene or linalool strain for evening use. Strains like Granddaddy Purple, 9 Pound Hammer, or Northern Lights are rich in myrcene and are great for inducing deep body relaxation and promoting sleep. For more anxiety and inflammation relief with a calming, chill vibe, Lavender (also known as Lavender Kush) or LA Confidential, both high in linalool, could be solid picks too. They’d pair nicely with Tatanka and help round out nighttime support. Also, edibles or tinctures might offer more sustained relief compared to smoking or vaping. Keep going strong and sending healing vibes to your aunt.

Good lord.... There is zero scientific evidence or logical support for Chucky's statement of pathogens not being amenable to alkaline inputs...... Your stomach is very acidic and will buffer the everliving hell out of anything you put into it....THEN your contents go into the small intestine, the primary site for water intake into the body......... "Drink alkaline water and eat alkaline foods" as a way to treat cancer is straight giga-bonkers on the clown scale. You are doing nothing but purchasing snakeopil with the double ultra whammy of demolishing your gut microbiome, a critical piece of overall health in any living fauna.....especially us. Cancer also doesn't love sugar, the actual hell?? Sugar levels in the blood are a key driver for inflammation and is related to obesity, and is connected exclusi9vely with processed foods....but no, cancer doesn't "like" sugar. We are friggin cooked..... Your CBD varieties are really just inputs for massive THCA and shifting cartels...there is a trivial amount of established science with CBD, and it all also relates to just typical endocannabinoid system functions so there is no reason to assume it is specific to CBD. Give them a nice well rounded plant with a broad spectrum of cannabinoids, mostly as a sleep/pain/appetite aid as needed. And I forgot, use proper medicine to treat diseases.

Stick to modern medicine. there's a lot of confident bluster about what marijuana does.. and if you look back in histroy those same types of people all said the same shit about alcohol, lol. People like their recreational drugs and project all sorts of positive things on to them with little to no evidence. There have been some limited studies that cannibidiol (may be using wrong technical term) does shrink or slow cancer growth, but 90% of initial studies are later found to be bogus. Limited research is not a fact. There's a chance taking recreational drugs will interefere with drugs that are proven to work. you should definitely consult the doctor about it before using holistic / anecdotal drugs and such. It will certainly help with appetite if the doctor says it won't interact with the cancer drugs doing the real work. When you come down off a 'high' you tend to get sleepy so it can help with sleep too. bodies must be different because for decades i've been hearing people say that this weed makes them euphoric and this weed makes them feel this way... all i ever feel is high or 'even higher,' lol. Sounds like magic to me. Over-ripened weed should correlate to feeling more tired as that can be linked to a specific molecule with that known effect on the body. becareful with anecdotal-based "medicine" .. it's far more often harmful than helpful and mostly useless. There's a reason why people died in the 30s back in caveman times and things didn't improve until modern germ theory and implementing the scientific method. Shamanistic nonsense falled for all of civilization.. 1/1000 things they did had any real effect. e.g. chewing on valerian root is a mild sedative. the extracted version is much stronger and more effective, even so. It was just a confidence game before modern science.

Brother, what are you talking about... if he goes and asks a doctor, he will tell him that it is drugs and recommend one of the drugs really, something that will only shorten that person's life... what I wrote, I wrote from experience, my mother also has cancer.

With anything relating to questions about a disease its best to take any advice with a grain of salt, or a box of it from this site. Its not likely that the ones answering here are doctors and their own individual experience with this is limited to their perspective and may not apply to you or your aunt. It is good to note that cannabis when smoked in its whole plant form has something coined the entourage effect, and its how everything interacts with you/others in their own system. The terps, the THC.CBD the other things in cannabis that don't have names yet or yet to be mapped out. So despite the idea the CBD ones is great for bed time, it might not act that way for them. If you wanted to take a more stable approach to this I would look into go across state and getting verified extracts of CBD or CBN for night time stuff. You can also let a plant get mostly amber triches and it will have loads of CBN in it. Or try getting a bunch of bud growen and see what kinds they like and work with them, then get a clone of that plant and grow it out. I'd also recommend contacting a real health care provider and getting their input on this and see where they think it should go. You can get multiple inputs from multiple health care providers if you want.

Terpenes are also important (what the plant smells like), do a little research, each of them has its own role in the treatment of certain diseases, and several of them have a role in the treatment of cancer, so you can find a strain that contains several different terpenes, with the same effect.

I assume that you want to make oil, and for oil, especially in the case of cancer treatment, indica varieties are used, the more relaxed I work with, without euphoria and similar effects... it means that there should be as much indica as possible, the effects should be relaxing, make you sleep, relieve pain, relax your muscles, make you eat and the like... and look with as much thc as possible compared to cbd, it does not have to have an abnormal amount of thc and if it is desirable, but it is important that it has much more thc than cbd.. in the case of cancer, cbd is good, if the oil has effects just like I wrote that it shouldn't have, then it knows how to calm all that down and alleviate the effects, and the medical effect remains the same. So, for cancer only indica, the more relaxed effects and the more thc compared to cbd, it means the best to take some kush or some old land race variety of indica, nothing like half thc-half cbd, just as much thc as possible.