Hemp has been successfully used as a health – promoting food as well as against a variety of ailments and has a tradition going back thousands of years in human history.

The hemp plant contains a multitude of valuable ingredients. The best known of these – and also the namesakes for this groupe of plants – are the cannabinoids, and there espacially the THC (delta 9 tetrahydrocannabidiol) and the non – psychodelic CBD (cannabidiol).

Further important ingredients are the terpenes and terpenoids, which are responsible for the scent and the typical aroma of the individual cannabis plants in addition to their broad spectrum of activity.

Further more there are amino acids, proteins, vitamins, flavinoids, fatty acids, minerals and other valuable substances. This variety of possible uses and the complexity of its ingredients give the hemp plant a special position in the kingdom of plants.