Kae lom kae sen
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| Kind | Traditional medicine |
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| Part of the plant | Leaf |
| Language | Thai |
| Country | Thailand |
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| Still made | Yes |
Kae lom kae sen (ยาแก้ลมแก้เส้น) is a powdered medicine of Thai traditional medicine of seven drugs, mostly pepper and cannabis leaf. It is given for wind in the body's channels, muscle pain and numb hands and feet.[1]: 84 Vichai Chokevivat traces it to the Vejjasartwanna, an old medical textbook printed in 1917, which gives it against wind, the channels, aches, pins and needles and dead hands and feet.[2]: 334, 340 It was one of the 16 cannabis formulas that the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine named in January 2019 for use once the narcotics law allowed it.[3]
The national list of essential herbal medicines of 2023 gives it by weight. In 150 grams there are 80 of pepper seed, 40 of cannabis leaf, 10 of the root of chettamun phloeng, 8 of ginger and 6, 4 and 2 of three kinds of thian seed. It is taken at 1 to 4 grams twice a day before meals, with honey or lime juice, as a powder or in capsules.[1]: 84
In December 2019 leaf from the Kasetsart University campus in Sakon Nakhon went into 5,000 sachets of the formula.[4] At the Thai-medicine cannabis clinic of the Rajamangala University of Technology Isan in Sakon Nakhon it was the third most prescribed cannabis formula between February 2020 and January 2022.[5]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Herbal Products Division, Food and Drug Administration (2023). บัญชียาหลักแห่งชาติด้านสมุนไพร พ.ศ. 2566 [National List of Essential Medicines: herbal medicines, B.E. 2566] (PDF) (in ไทย). Food and Drug Administration (Thailand). ISBN 978-974-244-453-2. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- ↑ Chokevivat, Vichai (2019). "กัญชา เป็นยาวิเศษ จริงหรือ" [Cannabis: is it really a magic medicine?]. Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine (in ไทย). 17 (2): 324–340.
- ↑ "เปิด 16 ตำรับยาแผนไทยผสมกัญชา เน้น'แก้ลม แก้ปวด แก้เส้น' พร้อมจัดระบบหมอพื้นบ้าน!" [Sixteen Thai traditional formulas with cannabis revealed, chiefly for wind, pain and the sinews, with a system for folk healers]. Matichon (in ไทย). 25 January 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "ตรวจต้นกัญชาแปลงปลูกในม.เกษตรฯวิทยาเขตสกลนครพบมีคุณภาพเยี่ยม" [Cannabis plants in the Kasetsart Sakon Nakhon campus plot found to be of excellent quality]. Post Today (in ไทย). 3 December 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ Srithat, Dutsadee; Pranakhon, Ratree; Khamluerit, Phakamas; Tongkasee, Pongsathorn; Sansupa, Kanokwan (26 April 2022). "การให้บริการตำรับยาที่มีกัญชาปรุงผสมในคลินิกกัญชาทางการแพทย์แผนไทย มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลอีสาน วิทยาเขตสกลนคร" [The service of medicinal recipes containing cannabis mixed in Thai traditional medical cannabis clinics of Rajamangala University of Technology Isan Sakon Nakhon Campus]. วารสารวิชาการกัญชา กัญชง และสมุนไพร (in ไทย). 1: 1–9. ISSN 2985-0177.