Ingredient in magic mushrooms is shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 01:21 in Health & Medicine

In findings that could pry open a door closed for nearly half a century, researchers have found that psilocybin — a hallucinogen long used in traditional healing rituals — eases the depression and soothes the anxiety of patients contending with serious illness and the prospect of imminent death....

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