Psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms may help with anxiety and depression in cancer patients
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/psychedelic-compound-found-in-magic-mushrooms-may-help-with-anxiet...
A one-time, single-dose treatment of psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, combined with psychotherapy appears to improve the emotional wellbeing of cancer patients for up to five years, researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine have found.
In a landmark study carried out in 2016, the team found that psilocybin combined with psychotherapy sessions produced immediate, substantial, and sustained improvements in anxiety and depression and led to decreases in cancer-related demoralisation and hopelessness, improved spiritual well-being, and increased quality of life in a group of 29 cancer patients.
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A long read but fascinating to me that mainstream medicine is actually stepping right out of the box to consider such remedies.
