Magic Mushrooms Helps Cancer Patients To Relieve Anxiety, Depression
Cancer patients are more anxious than anyone else and even about everything, but through ‘Psilocybin’, a compound found in magic mushrooms, anxiety can be relieved.
People who are diagnosed with cancer seems so hopeless because of this serious disease which taking lives of people worldwide. Patients won’t go to work, school, or even involve in any extracurricular activities.
Patients were getting depressed and anxious about their current situation and also fearing of losing their lives but through some medications and treatments cancer can be cured and gives cancer patients a second life that they can enjoy.
Even though treatments and medications can cure cancer, there are also patients who were getting worse due to the stage of cancer they are suffering which may lead to death.
Tammy Burgess, 55-year-old was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, overcomes her fear, depression, and anxiety through the help of psilocybin, a mind-altering compound found in magic mushrooms.
Psilocybin is a substance banned in the United States for some reasons. The substance was banned in the U.S because it was listed as Schedule 1 substance including “Mary Jane.”
This substance could alleviate depression and anxiety in cancer patients based on the small clinical trial participated by Burgess together with 29 more participants. A single dose of psilocybin could ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients but contains a few side effects, according to the Journal of Psychopharmacology research.
The effect of this substance could last 4 up to 6 hours, which could reduce and treat psychiatric conditions. Too much consumption of magic mushrooms can cause nausea, vomiting, and the worst even death.
“The most interesting and remarkable finding is that a single dose of psilocybin, which lasts four to six hours, produced enduring decreases in depression and anxiety symptoms, and this may represent a fascinating new model for treating some psychiatric conditions,” said by Roland Griffiths, a neuroscience professor at Johns Hopkins quoted by mashable.
