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Brief history History of psychedelics
of Psychedelics
in western Medicine medicine
The use of herbs for both external and internal
healing has existed since ancient times. Meanwhile,
people of that age learned about each plant and its
healing effects.
Cases of the use of hallucinogens have been known
since the time of the ancient tribes, but these
types of plants could only reach civilized Europe
after colonization. Before the Victorian era, opioid-containing
plants were already consciously but
intuitively used in Europe to treat certain ailments
and problems. After this period, in the late 19th
century, a German pharmacist became acquainted with
the so-called peyote cactus, from which mescaline
could be extracted.
DMT
Indigenous people have used DMT for healing and transformation for ages,
and more lately, science is confirming this. In a recent assessment on the anti-depressant
properties of 5-MeO-DMT, researchers from Johns Hopkins discovered
that use of the substance led to dramatic improvements in wellbeing;
among 362 people, around 80% of participants reported reductions in anxiety
and despair. Another rat study discovered that DMT microdosing also resulted
in beneficial changes with anxiety and depression.
High curiosity was shown in this topic until the
1920s and a German pharmaceutical company synthesized
and patented the MDMA which was then shelved
until the mid-1950s. Meanwhile, synthetic mescaline
has been produced and recommended throughout Europe
and North America.
Over the next 10 years, synthetically produced mescaline
is available and the effects of a fungus
growing on a rye plant are reported, and then patented
and sold as LSD-25 by the end of the decade.
The more serious use of these agents really started
in the 1940s. It was initially used in psychiatric
cases or in people with schizophrenia. Conclusions
were drawn and LSD was given as an antidepressant to
patients with schizophrenia. By the end of the year,
this drug was taken to the United States, resulting
in significant activity over the next 10 to 20 years.
During the 1950s, psychedelics went a long way
around the world, including a variety of therapeutic
treatments, including alcoholism, migraine, writer’s
block, frigidity, sexual perversion, pathological
gambling, immaturity, character disorder and
psoriasis, homosexuality, etc. The drug also experienced
popularity and in some places also experienced
a ban. There have been many attempts to combine and
administer the agents.
In later years, research, applications, and discoveries
took place at the same rate, until it became
illegal in most places. It was then that its popularity
declined and slowly, but surely people became
dismissive over the years due to the strong influence
of the media and press.
Nowadays, researchers already have much more accurate
information, and it seems that dealing with
psychedelics and their use are experiencing a renaissance
and are becoming more and more popular,
possibly due to growing population diseases such as
everyday stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness,
and so on.
LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD, is a fungus species that
parasitizes grains and a plant derivative. barely visible with the unaided eye. In
the 1950s and 1960s, many human experiments were carried out in America;
they are still utilised today for amusement, as well as in psychological and psychiatric
issues. It has a hallucinatory effect that is comparable to mescaline’s.
When a person sees colours, their perception of those colours becomes reality.
For instance, seeing the colour blue is obviously connected with the cold; while
under the influence of LSD, it is possible that the person starts to shiver. This
is one of the most unusual consequences that this drug may have. It does not
result in brain damage. The positive effects of the constant are reported in
many places.
Psilocybin
Psilocybin or its derivative, psilocin, are present in more than 180 kinds of
mushrooms, and Mesoamerican spiritual and religious rites have traditionally
used the fungus. They are also among the most well-known and often used psychedelics
in the United States and Europe. But psilocybin mushrooms are not
merely a drug or a religious ritual: Cluster headaches, obsessive-compulsive
disorders, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and addiction are
just a few of the conditions and disorders they have been used to treat in therapeutic
settings. Recent resurgence in research into psilocybin’s therapeutic
effects is also yielding encouraging results.
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