Landmark Studies Find that Active Ingredient in Magic Mushrooms May Ease Severe Anxiety and Depression
Antidepressants may not help the approximately 40 percent of people with cancer who suffer from a mood disorder. Now, two research teams–one from Johns Hopkins University and the other from New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center–have published randomized, blinded studies published in The Journal of Psychopharmacology, the results of which show that a single dose of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can provide relief from the anxiety and depression in patients being treated for cancer.
The researchers provided treatment to participants who had life-threatening cancers as well as a psychiatric diagnosis of anxiety or depression. In the Johns Hopkins study, after six months, 78 percent of the participants were less depressed than they started, as rated by a clinician, and 83 percent were less anxious. The New York University study was very similar, with 60 to 80 percent of the participants seeing improvements in various measures of depression and anxiety after six months.
Journal article:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269881116675512
Story via The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/the-life-changing-magic-of-mushrooms/509246/
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ReplyDeleteThe real question is, will the body eventually get used to the psychiatric medication for depression and anxiety?
ReplyDeleteBecause all of the ones I've used for severe depression/anxiety, it hasn't really helped me all that much.
ReplyDeleteAlan James typically the body does not get used to psychedelics. If you use them too often the effects are diminished. There needs to be a waiting time between "trips".
ReplyDeleteWe were making great progress using psychedelics in the 1960's, but the government decided that its was too much a risk (to the established order)and declared them illegal in the mid 1960's. Little research has been done since. Set and setting is quite important, so hospital and research labs are not the best places to hold these experiences. At least we are looking at them again.
ReplyDeleteWell, those mushrooms certainly look happy. :)
ReplyDeleteThe mushrooms in the picture are amanita muscaria. They do not contain psilocybin at all.
ReplyDeleteThe Amanita muscaria does not contain psilocybin or psilocin. Rather, the hallucinogenic chemicals this mushroom contain are muscimol and ibotenic acid.
ReplyDeleteHowever, they look magic to me for a reason...so the suggestive animation stays.
Corina Marinescu Look at pictures of omphalotus nidiformis, they really look magical!
ReplyDeleteBecause of the bioluminescent properties? Let's keep it on the red note...after all Santa is coming next week ;)
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