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PSILOCYBIN

Psilocybin

(Magic) Mushrooms' Medical Benefits

Warning/disclaimer: Do not consume any psychedelics such as

psilocybin mushrooms if you have emotional or psychological

upheaval in your life, schizophrenia, or early onset of mental ill-

ness. Do not operate any type of vehicles. Do not drive. If you

are prescribed any medications with MAOI (harmine and harma-

line), often found in prescription anti-depressants, check with

your doctor if you are not 100% sure. Sixty-five percent of psilo-

cybin is excreted in the urine within eight hours of ingestion,

with the rest taking weeks to leave the body.

medical cannabis. I found it strange and disheartening. Yes,

psilocybin mushrooms do have medical qualities; there are

many studies old and new with credible scientific facts proving

it, from relieving neurovascular headaches (cluster headaches)

to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to anxiety in the dying

to a mystical/religious experience, with some people still feeling

upbeat months later. Psilocybin is one of the least toxic of cur-

rently studied hallucinogens. Potential for physical addiction

and/or dependence is generally minimal, if at all.

The following article was constructed from interviews with Grant

W. Krieger, founder of the Grant W. Krieger Cannabis Research

Foundation (http://KriegerFoundation.com), Krieger Foundation

members with medical psilocybin mushrooms experiences, my

own experiences (30+ years), credible books, and the Internet.

A double blind study was completed, with very interesting

results, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, led by Roland R.

Griffiths, published in Psychopharmacology: “Sixty-one percent

of subjects reported a ‘complete mystical experience’ after their

psilocybin session, while only 13% reported such an outcome

after their experience with methylphenidate [Ritalin]. Two

months after taking psilocybin, 79% of the participants report-

ed moderately to greatly increased life satisfaction and sense of

well-being.”

Grant W. Krieger Cannabis Research Foundation has been doing

many years of medical cannabis and medical mushroom

research, with a large number of medical-needs people.

When the topic of writing an article on psilocybin mushrooms’

medical qualities was brought up on the TreatingYourself.com

website, there were many closed-minded people wanting to

stop the article from being published. Surprisingly, these same

people have suffered the exact same attitudes in regards to

The human body needs proper rest/sleep to function properly,

which includes healing itself. Despite a common belief, rapid

eye movement (REM) sleep is not the best sleep for the human

body. During the REM sleep stage, the activity of the brain is

similar to that during waking hours. The deepest and most reju-

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venating stage of sleep is the Delta sleep stage. Delta sleep is

essential for a human body to function properly. A small amount

of psilocybin will help the body enter Delta sleep easier and for

longer periods of time.

One of the many people Krieger worked with was an elderly

gentleman over 80 years old. He was stricken with cancer in pal-

liative care, incapacitated in a wheelchair, and unable to do any-

thing on his own. He couldn’t speak and drooled uncontrollably.

Additionally, he was a double-leg amputee at the knees as a

teenager but was able to use artificial legs for most of his adult

life. His caregiver (daughter) was dead-set against cannabis, let

alone psilocybin mushrooms. After Krieger properly educated

the daughter she agreed to try a natural way of helping her

father.

Krieger suggests a person take .05 grams (amounts vary

depending on each individual) at the exact same time every

night 30 to 40 minutes before bedtime. The reason for this is

to establish a rhythm (reset the human body’s biological clock

if you will). As each week passes the dose is increased by a

small amount over a period of time. Each person is different, of

course, so the amounts and lengths of time (days, weeks) have

to be adjusted accordingly.

Krieger gave her strict instructions to administer cannabis but-

ter and psilocybin mushrooms daily at the same time everyday

without fail. One month later, when Krieger returned for a visit,

the elderly man was able to sit up properly and carry on a con-

versation; however, he was still in somewhat of a fog due to the

prescribed pharmaceutical medication morphine. After 3

months, on a return visit, the elderly man had blisters on the

stumps of his legs. Krieger asked what happened. The elderly

man proudly told Krieger that he was able to put on his artifi-

This happens by turning off the serotonergic neurons’ filtering

of information while you’re awake. The same effect happens nat-

urally when you enter Delta sleep, which is why humans tend to

dream. The brain’s medial temporal lobe is rich in serotonin

synapses. Psilocybin affects the 5HT2 receptor in particular and

alters states of consciousness. The serotonin system (5-HT) is

one of the most important and largest of the brain’s synaptic

chemical messengers. Serotonin synapses in the brain control

functions like sleep, mood, and general arousal.

“Krieger gave her strict

instructions to administer

cannabis butter and psilo-

cybin mushrooms daily at

the same time everyday with-

out fail. One month later,

when Krieger returned for

a visit, the elderly man was

able to sit up properly and

carry on a conversation;

however, he was still in

somewhat of a fog due to

the prescribed pharmaceuti-

cal medication morphine.”

cial legs for the first time in many years and walk around the

house and go on short walks. He had also gone shopping with

his daughter, walking the whole length of a large shopping mall.

“I’ll just have to toughen up my stumps again,” the elderly man

proudly announced. Additionally, he was slowly cutting back on

his prescribed pharmaceutical medications. After 4 months the

elderly man was wrestling on the floor with his grandchildren

and was able dance at both of his sons’ weddings. The daugh-

ter decides to tell the father’s doctor what has actually made

the incredible improvements in her father’s health. The doctor

convinces the daughter to stop the cannabis butter and psilo-

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cybin mushroom treatments immediately. The elderly man died

two weeks later.

a hangover in the morning, whereas the psilocybin mushroom

didn’t. The mushrooms actually gave her a more upbeat feeling

the next day and she was able to function better.

Another person Krieger worked with was a dying lady (medical

doctors’ opinion), incapacitated in a wheelchair unable to do

anything, with multiple sclerosis. Krieger had her on cannabis

Bert is also on psilocybin mushroom therapy and consumes

cannabis butter for medical reasons. He was injured in an indus-

butter and .05 of a gram of psilocybin mushrooms for one

month. After the month, the lady was able to get 4 hours of

Delta sleep each night. The woman’s husband (caregiver) took

Krieger aside and asked him, “Are you performing black magic

in my home?” With his wife being able to sleep, and him final-

ly getting rest, the couple’s health seemed to be improving

already. During the second month, the dose of psilocybin mush-

rooms was doubled to .1 gram and the lady’s Delta sleep

increased to at least 6.5 hours per night. The third month there

was another increase in the dose of psilocybin mushrooms.

Afterwards, the couple was getting at least 8 hours of sleep

each night. Six months later, with massage therapy added, the

lady was walking around and able to enjoy a quality life once

again. She was eventually able to end the psilocybin mushroom

dose and massage therapy for 18 months before having to go

back on the mushroom therapy for a period of time.

trial accident. Before starting cannabis and psilocybin mush-

room therapy he had to sleep sitting up in a chair and was only

getting an hour of sleep at a time, at best, due to his pain. He

wouldn’t take pharmaceutical sleeping pills because he has two

family members who have physical addictions to them. The first

time Bert met Krieger, he noticed some serious issues with Bert

right away. After having a conversation and physically checking

him, Krieger recommended cannabis butter, psilocybin mush-

rooms, and massage therapy. Bert was desperate and immedi-

ately agreed to try Krieger’s recommendations. On his way home

with a free supply of cannabis butter and psilocybin mushrooms

given to him by Krieger, he was stopped by the RCMP and

charged with possession of cannabis and psilocybin mush-

rooms. Krieger had his lawyer call the crown prosecutor and the

charges were dropped before a trial could even begin. Why were

the charges dropped? It was medicinal use of cannabis and

psilocybin mushrooms.

Another elderly lady seemed to grow an inch, even though the

elderly don’t grow. Krieger explained that it was due to the

cannabis butter, psilocybin mushrooms, and massage therapy,

which allowed the muscles to relax and the back to straighten

up properly.

I have included a quote told to me from a non-cannabis con-

sumer suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). “If I

can do 1 to 2 grams of psilocybin mushrooms every 4 or 5 days

I do not suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder effects.”

Here are two more examples (both Donna and Bert started their

mushroom therapy at 0.5 g):

Keith Fagin

Calgary 420 Cannabis Community Founder

http://Calgary420.ca/

Donna (Sedative Ocean) is on psilocybin mushroom therapy and

consumes cannabis butter for medical reasons. Donna found it

took about 7 to 10 days to adjust to a schedule. Within one

month she felt her biological clock had been reset properly,

because she was sleeping normally. Donna had used pharma-

ceutical sleeping pills in the past but found that they gave her

Editors Note: Everyone’s entitled to his/her opinion! That said I

would have to disagree with Keith about all TY members being

against our Mushroom Feature. Only a handful was against it

and not the majority of the TY online community.

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PSILOCYBIN

Psilocybin

as Medicine in the

Twenty-First Century

Ban Phang Ka

here has been a long history of the use of low doses

of potentially psychedelic drugs for the treatment of

a wide array of physiological and psychological con-

ditions. There are several over-the-counter remedies

that qualify, like Dramamine, Benedryl, and dex-

tromethorphan, which are respectively used to treat

nausea, allergies, and cough. More frequently, drugs that quali-

fy are only provided through prescription. For example, the ergot

alkaloid ergonovine and its synthetic analog methylergonovine

are both used in obstetrics because of their oxytocic properties.

At doses approximately ten times those utilized for their medical

uses, the five chemicals listed above produce disassociating and

psychedelic effects, respectively. Another class of drugs used in

psychiatry, with a history of use as psychedelics, is the

monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), which are commonly pre-

scribed to treat depression.

Despite these observations, many of our readers might be startled

to learn that the psychedelic indolamine psilocybin has been sug-

gested to be beneficial for a variety of medical conditions.

Psilocybin is the more stable of the two primary active chemicals in

psychedelic mushrooms. The FDA has approved two preliminary

studies into the use of psilocybin. One study is investigating treat-

ing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with psilocybin. The other

study is testing psilocybin’s ability to reduce physical pain, and the

anxiety and depression associated with fear of dying in stage IV

cancer patients. Researchers at Harvard Medical School are current-

ly seeking approval for a third study into the even more promising

use of sub-recreational doses of psilocybin and LSD25 as treat-

ments for cluster headaches. These three preliminary studies,

backed by a troop of case reports, may potentially open the door

for future clinical trials into therapeutic uses of psilocybin.

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