Posted on 05/17/2016 1:03:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
Psilocybin, which is found in magic mushrooms, was administered to depression patients in a pill Credit: TELEGRAPH
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A hallucinogenic chemical found in magic mushrooms has successfully lifted severe depression in previously untreatable patients.
Scientists at Imperial College London induced intense psychedelic trips in 12 people using high doses of the banned substance psilocybin.
A week after the experience all the volunteers were depression-free, and three months later five still had no symptoms of the condition.
Published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, the study welcomes the results as “promising, but not completely compelling".
Its authors are now seeking further funding from the Medical Research Council and other bodies to carry out fuller trials.
They conceded, however, that the use of a placebo control, a crucial component of thorough clinical trials, would be difficult as it would be obvious who was having a hallucinogenic experience and who was not.
The psilocybin is believed to cause relief from depression by targeting receptors in the brain and disrupting the Default Mode Network, which is responsible for sense of self and is overactive in depressed people.
However, the scientists did not rule out that the psychedelic trip could have caused an “awakening”, of the kind achieved by spiritual teaching, which also helped lift the depression.
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And here I always thought that was from whiskey!....................
Ingesting too much anything can kill you!..................Even water........................
So that’s how he does it!.......................
The ones here grow like little purple umbrellas in the early morning and usually wilt and melt before noon........................
Many psychiatric drugs mimic the effects of mushrooms and marijuana with less side effects.
Always reminded me of eating a cat dropping.Moderation in all things.
Except Freeping!
Mushroom cow pie quiche. An old vegetarian favorite.
You used to be able to order the spores through the mail.
Perhaps they have stopped this.
Sunshine is the magic medicine for depression and even for some of the things that are lumped under the Bipolar brand;
sunshine, or if you work nights, vitamin D-3. I have turned on one diagnosed bipolar and two pretty severe manic depressives to this notion and they have evened out and the two that were taking anti depressants have stopped. Another woman, a waitress at Waffle House whom I saw at the counter infrequently, on Methadone who was trying to actually end her addiction took my advice and started taking the D-3 and getting out in the sun when she could has since dropped the methadone and the Prozac and has been blissfully NORMAL for almost a year. I had not known about the Methadone until she told me she had dropped it.
There is also some research that LSD can be used to treat alcohol and drug addiction.
I've also heard rumors that folks in silicon valley do low dose LSD to stimulate their creativity.
“Prob’ly keep us both alive.”
Easy, you know the way it’s supposed to be.
Can spot it in the woods an' all that
UST'A trip weekly back in the late 60's/early 70's
Expert witness ping!
Hmm..No wonder I have not suffered a serious bout of depression since before my college days. Of all the stupid things I have done in my life, the mushrooms were the most fun.
Don’t ask me either. ;o)
With the cancer patients it was more about confronting their fear of dying and psychodelics administered in a controlled environment were quite successful in transforming the patient’s outlook. More at the link...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/health/lsd-reconsidered-for-therapy.html
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