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Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease 1
#26712969 - 06/02/20 03:42 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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First up I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice. This is a purely speculative post based on the science of the anti-inflammatory properties of psychedelics and what we know about immune dysfunction in the Covid-19 disease.
I have been following both of these topics closely. In fact I have first hand experience of the anti-inflammatory properties of mushrooms. I am currently using them to treat psoriatic arthritis (an auto-immune inflammatory condition, similar to rheumatoid arthritis).
On the Covid science front I am a regular listener to the This Week in Virology podcast. One of the things that I have gleaned from that podcast is that it is not the virus that kills people directly. In fact people die of an over-active immune response after they have successfully fought off the worst of the virus.
This is not uncommon in viral infections. It's called a cytokine storm. The gist of it is that various immune factors start attacking our own cells instead of just working to fight off the pathogen.
As I said I have a chronic auto-immune condition and began growing mushrooms as a means to treat that condition. I did so because I came across Charles D. Nichols research on the anti-inflammatory properties of psychedelics. Importantly he finds that sub-perceptual doses of a number of psychedelics have potent anti-inflammatory effects. If you're into reading scientific literature you can check out one of his papers on the subject here
Psychedelics as anti-inflammatory agents
Putting together the information in that paper with what we know about the immune response to the Covid-19 disease we can see that psychedelics can help to reduce the levels of the cytokines that are causing so much damage in the later stages of the disease including TNF and IL-6.
Here's a bit more of a background on the relationship between these immune factors and Covid-19.
My take home from all of this is that prohibition of psychedelics is likely making the pandemic worse because it makes it all the more difficult for people to study them as potential therapeutics in this kind of situation.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc]
#26712983 - 06/02/20 04:26 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I’m for the responsible & appropriate use of psychedelics to find guidance in general, especially during these challenging & uncertain days. But tripping while sick from a virus sounds like a predominantly idea to me. So many ways it could go badly ( depending on the infection) What if instead of helping it seriously exacerbates various symptoms? Making things worse? - that could just as easily be the case.
Psychs can effect the body to make BP higher or lower than normal, the impact on the central nervous & parasympathetic nervous system, heart rate, and more etc are all effected. And that is just a couple of general / basic examples. I can easily see it become a train wreck. I’ve tripped when sick before and it made for a dangerous & potentially lethal combo. The stress it took on my system was massive & it took a a couple months to recover. Then again, it partly depends on ones overall health & whatever specific pathogen or thing is chasing the sickness.
Using psychedelics to help with addictions, depression, anxiety, cluster headaches, and others things - at & in an appropriate way etc I would feel more comfortable with - bc that’s a whole other ball game.
Anyways, sort of an interesting notion & I’m curious about it too - but outside of a hospital/clinical setting I couldn’t advocate for people self experimenting while sick like that in good faith due to the potentially serious drawbacks & interactions. I’m Coming at it from a harm reduction & common sense perspective here. Know what I mean?
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Edited by The Blind Ass (06/02/20 04:38 AM)
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: The Blind Ass]
#26713004 - 06/02/20 04:50 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I agree with what you are saying here and as I said right at the top I'm not a doctor and this is not medical advice. I would also point out two things. Firstly Charles D. Nichols work shows that psychedelics can have potent anti-inflammatory effects at sub-perceptual doses so in terms of studying this stuff scientifically (which is what I think should happen) we are not talking about tripping.
Secondly the traditional medicinal use of psychedelics is also quite different to what most people mean when they talk about 'tripping'. I use a low dose of mushrooms 3 times a week as part of a healing practice that is informed by two trips to the Amazon to drink ayahuasca at a retreat centre, and that is not something that I will stop doing if I get the virus, but, by the same token, I would definitely not recommend that anyone else did what I'm doing.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc]
#26713012 - 06/02/20 04:55 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Edit- my bad.
I’m a little teapot
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Edited by The Blind Ass (06/02/20 10:38 AM)
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc]
#26713123 - 06/02/20 06:22 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Edit: All good! Peace!
Edited by Redwoodmyc (06/06/20 12:34 AM)
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc]
#26713132 - 06/02/20 06:29 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Edited by The Blind Ass (06/02/20 10:37 AM)
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: The Blind Ass]
#26713140 - 06/02/20 06:33 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think you've misunderstood me. I'm not traveling anywhere man. I'm doing all of this in my home. I was in the Amazon in 2015 and 2017. I'm very worried about what is happening there now with the spread of the virus and I'm worried about the its spread more generally. While it's circulating I think we should all be staying home.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc] 2
#26713345 - 06/02/20 08:09 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'd like a vaccine AND psychedelics AND well behaved police AND sex
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: redgreenvines]
#26713544 - 06/02/20 09:30 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Regardless of health effects (probably none either way if you're otherwise healthy) tripping while sick usually makes you more aware of your sickness and feel like absolute fucking shit. Well, maybe not mescaline, but shrooms and acid for sure.
Could the mental benefits outweigh this? I don't think they would for me, but to each their own.
DMT's probably the least risky.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc] 1
#26713677 - 06/02/20 10:33 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think I’ll clear this up for y’all: when OP said he wouldn’t stop if he got the virus, he meant he wouldn’t stop the 3 times a week microdose regime, and wasn’t referring to his 2 trips to the Amazon
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: DJ Ed]
#26713688 - 06/02/20 10:37 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ty
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: The Blind Ass]
#26713953 - 06/02/20 12:28 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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No worries, I could only think he meant that, as he seems nice
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: DJ Ed] 1
#26715121 - 06/02/20 08:47 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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DJ Ed said: I think I’ll clear this up for y’all: when OP said he wouldn’t stop if he got the virus, he meant he wouldn’t stop the 3 times a week microdose regime, and wasn’t referring to his 2 trips to the Amazon
❤️ DJ Ed
Yes that's what I meant. It's actually a low dose (around .6 to 1.2 grams dried cubes) rather than a microdose but yes you got the gist of it. If we're talking about different medicinal applications of psychedelics I think we should really be thinking about a variety of doses from the micro to high dose scenario depending what ails us.
Microdosing, and the higher dose they give in the current clinical studies on depression etc, have gotten all the press, but in my experience using mushrooms to treat an auto-immune condition it has been regular low doses that have given me the most benefit.
I should also say that I combine the low dose with a yoga and meditation practice. What I'm doing is very much in the 'psychedelic assisted' paradigm. In the depression studies its 'psychedelic assisted psychotherapy'. For me with the arthritis its something like 'psychedelic assisted yoga therapy'.
Connect this back to my original post one of the reasons I would not stop this practice if I got the virus is because the mushrooms help me to go deeper into the breathing exercises (pranayama) that are part of yoga. These breathing exercises help to bring more oxygen into the body and low levels of blood oxygen is one of the causes of death with the Covid-19 disease.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc]
#26715466 - 06/02/20 11:58 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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It’s certainly very intriguing, and very useful information; thank you for sharing 
DJ Ed
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: DJ Ed]
#26715587 - 06/03/20 01:16 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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No clue about psychs (no not psychos stupid phone) and anti inflammatory effects, but I've been telling people about zinc lozenges if they feel the first signs of a cold coming on. Gotta suck em till they're gone, to coat the throat with the zinc irons, and can only use them for up to 5 days safely at the 21ish mg dose every 3 hours or so, but damn do they work at reducing the severity and duration of colds and flu. Last 6 times I've used them I only felt sick for about 3 to 4 days with fairly mild cough and sniffling with a bit of fatigue, instead of the flat out week and a half of misery I usually get.
From what I understand the zinc basically reduces the amount of nasties in the throat area, reducing symptoms and helping your body get the upper hand. Hence, why you have to suck on the nasty gritty things instead of just chewing them up lol.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: DJ Ed]
#26715623 - 06/03/20 01:37 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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DJ Ed said: It’s certainly very intriguing, and very useful information; thank you for sharing 
DJ Ed
Glad you found it useful. I have debated posting on this but I think it is worth putting it out there for people to think about. I think there is a very good rationale for studying this clinically, particularly with (R)-DOI the drug that Charles Nichols found to have the strongest anti-inflammatory effects at sub-perceptual doses. I would love for that to happen but it's probably unlikely.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc]
#26715706 - 06/03/20 03:07 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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i've been on a diet known for being highly anti-inflammatory for the last 2 years and i haven't been sick once during that time
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc]
#26716272 - 06/03/20 09:33 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks for the information Redwood. I too suffer from an autoimmune disorder (RA) I've been treating it with chaga / reishi extracts for the past 5-6 yrs with some success. At least I've been able to stay off the medically prescribed methotrexate or the biologics that my Rheumatologist has suggested.
I've not heard of psychedelics being used for inflammation before in this way and the research looks promising. I forage my own mushrooms and have plenty of dried ps. ovoidiocystidiada. I may start a similar low dose program as you do. If you don't mind me asking, which autoimmune disease do you have and how do you rate your results from these dosages. Also, how long have been on said regimen.
If you don't feel safe airing things out here, you can me.
Thanks again for your information.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Psion]
#26716434 - 06/03/20 10:49 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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About 10 years ago I discovered Vicks First Defence. Take within 36 hours of first signs of a cold, it encapsulates the cold germs, starves them, then flushes them out. Within 48 hours, sometimes overnight, you’re baseline.
Got it when I went on night shifts about 10 year back, and it worked a treat
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: DJ Ed]
#26716812 - 06/03/20 01:15 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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when corona virus started I thought I was gonna die because I had bronchitis
switched to vaping instead of smoking weed
and other healthier lung choices
it went away eventually
but now im pretty sure theres a ketamine-naltrexone combo being researched for covid19 treatment
and I sure do a lot of those drugs just saying
https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-treatment-ketamine-naltrexone-being-tested-covid-19-drugs-2970324
no news here since but theres gotta be something, no???
also certain strains of weed may help so I feel like im immune but yeah im def. crazy even if immune
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Thayendanegea]
#26723176 - 06/06/20 01:07 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thayendanegea said: Thanks for the information Redwood. I too suffer from an autoimmune disorder (RA) I've been treating it with chaga / reishi extracts for the past 5-6 yrs with some success. At least I've been able to stay off the medically prescribed methotrexate or the biologics that my Rheumatologist has suggested.
Yeah I was on methotrexate for a while. Glad I'm not taking that shit anymore or any of the other drugs the Rheumatologist proscribed for me. They're all bad!
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Thayendanegea said: I've not heard of psychedelics being used for inflammation before in this way and the research looks promising. I forage my own mushrooms and have plenty of dried ps. ovoidiocystidiada. I may start a similar low dose program as you do. If you don't mind me asking, which autoimmune disease do you have and how do you rate your results from these dosages. Also, how long have been on said regimen.
If you don't feel safe airing things out here, you can me.
Thanks again for your information.
I have Psoriatic Arthritis, which as I understand it is very similar to RA. I've been working with the mushrooms for almost two years. It's taken me a while to figure out how best to work with them and it definitely takes a bit of time for the medicine to do its work (I've weaned myself off other medications a couple of times over a period of months). Here's a bit more detail on what I do.
First off I'm combining the mushrooms with a cannabis oil. I find the cannabis really helps me to stretch more deeply into the joints and tendons that are affected by the arthritis. I make the oil in a rice cooker on the 'keep warm' setting, lid off 4-5 grams of bud with a cup of olive oil, leave it for 24 hours. I just take the oil, no baking cookies or anything like that, that way I can get a precise dose. It's a bit variable depending on the strength of the weed but I usually take about teaspoon 2 hours before taking the mushrooms.
I take the mushrooms, between .6 to 1.2 grams dried. I find if I take more than that it can overwhelm my ability to focus on the yoga and meditation. I take the mushrooms with a ginger tea and lion's mane extract. Then I do yoga and meditate, lot's of very deep breathing.
I do yoga because it's something I've done for years and it helps with the day to day of the arthritis, but I think the main thing is dedicating the time that you have with the medicine to moving your body in a way that helps it to heal. This could be through all sorts of different practices but I would say definitely deepening my connection to the breath is an important aspect of how this regimen has helped me.
It's worth saying I see healing with these medicines as work. Sometimes it's hard work. Sometimes the work is beautiful. Sometimes I'd rather just do nothing than go to work, but I know how much it helps so I keep going back.
As is the case for our brothers and sisters in the Amazon diet has been an important part of this too. There's more to say here but I'll leave it at that for now.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: Redwoodmyc]
#26723836 - 06/06/20 10:51 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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as much as i love shrooms, i really can't peddle it forth as anything to treat or manage covid-19. a lot of natural products have anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties (e.g garlic) but the efficiency against such a ruthless virus is really quite miniscule. that's just from a strict scientific perspective though. theres a ton of other factors that goes into this kinda stuff, its too hard to say for sure.
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Re: Psychedelics a potential treatment for Covid-19 disease [Re: antilyra]
#26725074 - 06/06/20 09:09 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Look into the ketamine studies shown to reduce cytokine storms and heavy inflamation responses to treat COVID19 lol.
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