The Physical Effects of Marijuana on the Lung System

If a patient demonstrates one or more of these symptoms and signs, marijuana may be exerting physical effects on her/his Lung System:

Depletes Qi

Unbalanced marijuana may deplete the Qi and leave a person with a sense of sleepiness and lethargy.

Lung Fluids

Unbalanced marijuana can harm the lung system by drying up the fluid metabolism from the level of the lungs.

Thin Fluids

Taking marijuana without balancing it can damage the thin fluids and degenerate the lungs’ ability to distribute thin fluids throughout the entire body.

Lung Yin

Unbalanced marijuana may damage the lung Yin over time as a consequence of drying the thin fluids.

Cottonmouth

When the lung fluids dry up, the effect a person usually feels right away is cottonmouth.

Hot Poison in the Lungs

According to the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, marijuana has a spicy, warm to hot and poisonous nature. Long-term unbalanced marijuana use can pollute the lungs with hot toxic poisons. This may toxify the lungs over time, and the poison and its toxic by-products can begin to build and spread through the rest of the body.

Respiratory Issues
There’s a typical kind of chronic cough, wheezing, phlegm and bronchitis that unbalanced marijuana smokers can work up over time. Other breathing problems can come along with it as well.


Unbalanced marijuana can harm the lung system in at least three ways:

1) The physical heat of the smoke.

2) The residues that the smoke leaves in the lungs.

3) The hot and toxic nature of the marijuana itself, which burns up lung Yin and other deeper levels of fluids and Yin as it makes its way deeper into the body.

When marijuana burns up the thin fluids it affects the general fluid metabolism.

This creates phlegm.

Phlegm

Phlegm can lodge and foul any of the organs and force them to lose their functions. At the highest levels, phlegm distorts a person’s perceptions.


Immune Function

Unbalanced marijuana can confuse and devitalize immune function.

Confusing the Wei Qi

Unbalanced marijuana can confuse the Wei Qi:

1) It can harm the lungs on a physical level in the ways we’ve already described.

2) The lung Qi controls the surface of the body and the Wei Qi.

3) Unbalanced marijuana can affect the blood in a way that disturbs the distribution of the layers of Qi, blood and body fluids.

4) Unbalanced marijuana’s effect of burning up the digestive fluids can compromise the entire fluid mechanism.

5) Unbalanced marijuana may derange the spleen’s centralizing function.

6) Unbalanced marijuana’s long-term effects and/or its effects in highly compromised individuals can use all available kidney Qi, Yang and Yin to manage the high.

Adaptogenic/ Anti-adaptogenic Effect

When a person takes marijuana in an unbalanced way, it often creates an unfortunate reversal of marijuana’s wonderful adaptogenic qualities.

The difference between marijuana becoming an adaptogen or an anti-adaptogen has everything to do with how s/he uses or abuses marijuana.

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This is only a brief synopsis of my findings. For extensive details on my research and how to balance and optimize the effects of cannabis using Traditional Chinese Medicine, please refer to

Marijuana Syndromes
How to Balance and Optimize
the Effects of Cannabis
With Traditional Chinese Medicine


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New research comparing the effects of smoking cannabis vs. tobacco

JAMA reports that occasional marijuana use increases lung air flow rate and improves lung capacity, but also states that these effects are only statistical, would be unnoticeable to an individual using it and that the effect reverses over time to actually make it worse. On top of that, there were no heavy duty marijuana smokers in the study group, and the researchers were quick to note that there may be many other deleterious effects with heavier use that they could not measure. Then they backtrack to announce that marijuana use increases the chances of having a heart attack and lowers immune function.

The title of the article? Marijuana Smoke Not as Damaging to Lungs as Cigarettes, Study Suggests...

"I get very drowsy even though it's not late or otherwise close to my usual bedtime...”


This is only a brief synopsis of my findings. For extensive details on my research and how to balance and optimize the effects of cannabis using Traditional Chinese Medicine, please refer to

Marijuana Syndromes
How to Balance and Optimize
the Effects of Cannabis
With Traditional Chinese Medicine

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