CANNABIS – The Revival of an Ancient Women’s Herb With Shabnam
Cannabis – the revival of an ancient women’s herb
From Egyptian antiquity to the fifteenth century, women relied on a vast knowledge of medicinal plants for their health. Herbal formulations for regulating their fertility, facilitating childbirth, and intensifying orgasm, to name a few!
So, what exactly happened?
If women once had access to effective herbal preparations for different women’s health conditions, why is this knowledge lost to them in modern times? One possible answer could be the suppression of this knowledge by religious and legal patriarchy in the form of systematic witch-hunts for more than 300 years. This wave of execution of women’s healing art –AKA herbalism–, drained the flow of herbal knowledge in its passage from the pre-modern to the modern era. Luckily, however, the nature of knowledge is insuppressible. It wisely finds its way through geographical and temporal boundaries and rises like a phoenix when the cultural container is mature enough to embrace it. One botanical agent that exemplifies this lost and found knowledge is cannabis. The fusion of two female taboos The ancient as well as more modern writings of traditional healers, physicians, and scientists suggest that cannabis may be a valuable botanical addition to the treatment of common women’s health conditions.
So is it just an interesting coincidence that the reproductive part of the female cannabis plant matches so well with the physiological needs of the female reproductive system? Probably not, as even in ancient Germanic culture, cannabis was associated with the Germanic love goddess, Freya.
When we look closer, cannabis and women’s health have so much in common, as both topics have been neglected by the public, science, and regulators for many, many years.
As millions of women experience discomfort such as pain during menstruation or sexual intercourse that is not communicated transparently, cannabis as a female taboo plant can alleviate many of these female taboo pains! And rather than superficially masking the symptoms, cannabis provides women with a new perspective of their mind-body relationship and the potential to offer healing in the process. Perhaps that’s why women’s movements coincide with the rise of legal cannabis a joint paradigm shift that is inherently female.
Our story began with this realisation .
Women’s unmet health needs – from menstruation to masturbation – led us to create theFemCan (Laia’s FemBalance brand). These legitimate needs have been neglected by the medical community, the scientific community, and the industry long enough. Therefore, we decided to combine these two powerful taboos that could greatly benefit each other -cannabis and women’s health! We have made it our mission to promote topics related to women’s health and bring them into the social spotlight. The basis of our product development is the needs of women during different phases of our menstrual cycle. This makes us the first company to offer natural solutions for every menstrual cycle phase. We rely on the power of traditional herbal
medicine, such as cannabis, in combination with modern active ingredients like functional terpenes. But the products are only the beginning! Our actual mission is to create a movement that brings women in touch with their power and takes women’s health to a new level.”
