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The Pieyed Piper

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Maybe people, politicians, scientists and Doctors will finally realize this and stop prescribing synthetic drugs. And get back to nature.

The study included 12 patients who took a small dose of psilocybin -- the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms" -- while under the supervision of trained therapists. In a separate session, the participants took a placebo pill, which had little effect on their symptoms.

By contrast, one to three months after taking psilocybin the patients reported feeling less anxious and their overall mood had improved. By the six-month mark, the group's average score on a common scale used to measure depression had declined by 30 percent, according to the study, which was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

"We were pleased with the results," says the lead researcher, Charles Grob, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, in Torrance, Calif.

Notably, the psilocybin did not aggravate the patients' anxiety or provoke any other unwanted effects besides a slight increase in blood pressure and heart rate.

During the psilocybin sessions, which lasted six hours, the patients lay on a couch and listened to music through headphones.

Although they spoke only briefly to the therapists while under the influence of the drug, they continued to meet periodically with the research staff for six months to discuss their experience and to fill out questionnaires assessing their mood and anxiety levels.

"I think we've established good grounds for continuing the research," Grob says. "That's the goal right now, just to develop more studies."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/09/06/magic.mushrooms.ease.anxiety/index.html?hpt=T2

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sees someone is on an alternative medicine kick...

Can't tell you the number of times my wife has to deal with a know-it-all dumbass that comes through the office exhasperated trying to "heal" themselves with alternative means. Then try to tell HER how wouldn't this or that would work in place of what she's trying to prescribe to fix the problem. Look...don't make an appointment with the doctor/PA/FNP if you think you can fix the damned problem with a root or something. Sometimes science gets it right.

New-age alternative medicine types are as annoying as jehovah witnesses at an emergency room.

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