Thamlai Phra Sumen
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| Kind | Traditional medicine |
|---|---|
| Part of the plant | Flower |
| Also called | Ya Thamlai Phra Sumen |
| Language | Thai |
| Country | Thailand |
|---|---|
| Still made | Yes |
Thamlai Phra Sumen (ยาทำลายพระสุเมรุ) is a powdered medicine of Thai traditional medicine made of 23 drugs, among them cannabis flower. It is given for the wind disorder lom plieo dam and, as a supporting medicine, for muscle weakness after paralysis.[1]: 87[2]: 41 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] Vichai Chokevivat traces it to the second volume of Khun Sophit Bannalak's textbook of Thai traditional medicine, printed in 1961.[4]: 334, 340
The national list of essential herbal medicines of 2023 gives the formula by weight. In 714 grams, peeled pepper seed makes up 462; hatsakhun thet and camphor 21 each; the two myrobalans 20 and 19; buk ro 18; the root of chettamun phloeng 17; cannabis 16; dried ginger 15; five kinds of thian seed from 14 down to 10; two kot 9 and 8; sweet flag 7; rock salt 6; long-pepper flower 5; cloves 4; cardamom 3; mace 2 and nutmeg 1. It is taken at 2 grams twice a day before meals, as a powder or in capsules, and is not given to children under 16.[1]: 87 The cannabis is the inflorescence, 2.24 per cent of the formula.[2]: 41, 43
At the department's hospital in Bangkok, patients given it between October 2019 and December 2020 were treated mostly for muscle pain, paralysis, numbness, sleeplessness, osteoarthritis of the knee and Parkinson's disease.[2]: 41 At the Thai-medicine cannabis clinic of the Rajamangala University of Technology Isan in Sakon Nakhon it was the second 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Boontham, Apakorn; Nootim, Preecha; Dilokthornsakul, Piyameth (January–April 2022). "รูปแบบการสั่งใช้ ความปลอดภัยและผลต่อคุณภาพชีวิตของตำรับยาทำลายพระสุเมรุ" [Treatment pattern, safety and effect of Ya Thamlai Phra Sumen Thai traditional medicine formula on patients' quality of life]. Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine (in ไทย). 20 (1): 41–54.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.