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 Patients get relief from violent cluster headaches
#6305206 - 11/27/06 04:41 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Patients get relief from violent cluster headaches
November 25, 2006 - AZCentral.com
The power of mushrooms extends beyond psychological effects.
Dr. John Halpern and colleagues at McLean Hospital in Boston have been looking at ability of magic mushrooms to treat cluster headaches, which affect about 1 million Americans, mostly men.
The pain can be so severe the headaches are known as "suicide" headaches, occurring like clockwork at the same time each day, or the same month each year. No treatment has been shown to extend remissions from pain.
Halpern examined medical records of 48 patients who had taken hallucinogenic mushrooms and reported in Neurology that the majority of them found partial or complete relief from cluster attacks.
"These are not people you'd expect from the drug culture," he said. "They are lawyers, teachers, business owners. They have a painful and debilitating condition, and found meaningful relief."
They are also, with the exception of the few who are enrolled in controlled medical experiments, all lawbreakers, part of a new mushroom underground.
Many of its denizens are like Bob Wold, a 53-year-old maintenance worker and little league coach who had never taken hallucinogenic drugs before. He knew they could be dangerous. Wold, who lives near Chicago, said his headaches felt like an ice pick jammed through his eye.
Seeking help, Wold stumbled across a Web site for cluster headache sufferers touting hallucinogenic mushrooms. A man he met on the Internet mailed Wold 20 dried brown mushrooms. After that, Wold started growing his own mushrooms in canning jars.
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