Treating Depression And Anxiety With Mushrooms
In a 2017 study of psilocybin and depression researchers at imperial college london gave psilocybin therapy to 20 patients with treatment resistant depression who reported benefits as long as.
Treating depression and anxiety with mushrooms. The trial finished in 2016 was the first modern study to target treatment resistant depression with psilocybin a psychedelic drug naturally occurring in around 200 species of mushroom. Some researchers and doctors agree though the topic is. Hippies tripping out on lsd or magic mushrooms. To date psilocybin has demonstrated modest although some authors claim promising results in clinical trials for the treatment of addiction depression post traumatic stress disorder and death.
But these powerful mind altering substances are now being studied seriously by scientists inside some of the country s foremost medical research. Microdosing s true believers say small doses of lsd or psilocybin mushrooms treat their chronic depression and anxiety better than an ssri.