Does CBD help to treat epilepsy?

Of all the benefits of CBD, the use of CBD for epilepsy treatment evidence is the most conclusive.

Early evidence from laboratory studies, anecdotal reports, and small clinical studies over a number of years suggest that cannabidiol (CBD) could potentially help control seizures. 

Evidence concerning the potential anti-seizure efficacy of cannabinoids reached a turning point with the completion of the first high-quality, placebo-controlled trials of a purified oil-based liquid CBD preparation in patients suffering from acute epileptic seizures.

A December 2017 research paper concluded that there is now class 1 evidence that CBD improves seizure control when added on to other AEDs in patients with two difficult-to-treat epileptic encephalopathies: Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

You can read more about how CBD helps to treat epilepsy and seizures, particularly in children, in our blog post here.