Category: Healing and Medicine
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Psilocybin as Psychological Medicine

The slender, bell-shaped fruiting bodies pictured here are Psilocybe semilanceata, commonly known as the Liberty Cap, and among the most potent psilocybin-containing fungi found anywhere in the world. Native to cool, damp upland pastures across Northern Europe, they fruit from late summer through to early winter, emerging in clusters from the soil of ungrazed or…
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Psilocybin, Neuroplasticity and Stroke Recovery

Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in certain species of fungi, has moved from the margins of counterculture into some of the most prestigious research institutions in the world. What was once dismissed as a recreational curiosity is now the subject of trials at Johns Hopkins, Imperial College London, and the University of Miami, among others.…
