Magic mushroom ingredient psilocybin could be key to treating depression - studies

[umbertino]

Immediate reduction in depression and anxiety for up to eight months seen in patients with advanced cancer given a single dose of psilocybin

Sarah Boseley Health editor

Thursday 1 December 2016 09.40 GMT

The drug psilocybin in pill form. Two trials have shown a single dose reduced depression and anxiety caused by cancer and that the effect can last up to eight months.

Photograph: NYU Langone Medical Center

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/01/magic-mushroom-ingredient-psilocybin-can-lift-depression-studies-show

[bostonangler]

Mmmmm Magic Mushrooms

 

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[Flash101]

Back in my day masculine was the magic ingredient, use to pick m fresh every morning when I was @ Stanford Palo Alto Menlo Park Ca 

 

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[adhoc10]

remind me....who thought the war on drugs was a good idea?

[Theseus]

Best cure fore depression...RV of IQD. Well until the money runs out!