1. LSD: Treating Addiction, Treatment for Depression and Stopping Headaches

Many people know in the 50s and 60s, the government experimented with LSD to test warfare agents, but few people know that mental health professionals are also interested in the experiment.

Studies in the fifties showed that the use of LSD to treat alcoholism produces 50% success rate-shock compared with 10% success rate of treatment methods to other alcoholics.

Scientists in Baltimore recently doing this research again to see how effective LSD for use in treating alcoholism, sedatives, opium and heroin.

In the Spring Grove State Hospital in Maryland, the researchers gave patients with acute cancer LSD to see if he can help reduce their anxiety about kematian.Sepertiga of patients say they feel dramatically reduced tension, depression, fear of death and other kesakitan.Sepertiga reported this condition quite reduced and the last group, said their condition did not improve at all, but it also does not worsen.

LSD is also used for psychotherapy during the sixties. A study of British doctors who treat their patients with the drug showed a majority of them believe the substance of an effective and safe in treating patients. This drug also proved to be an effective pain reliever for chronic pain.

Even at lower dosage levels of psychedelic, LSD found at least as effective as opiates and far more durable.

Recently, Harvard Medical School interviewed cluster headache patients who use LSD to treat their condition, and seven of the eight said their headaches subside and help put them in relief.

Continuing this research, a study at McLean Hospital found that 53 patients with cluster headache who takes LSD or magic mushrooms one reported a beneficial effect and that the quantity of drugs could be far below the psychedelic doses to be effective.

2. Psychedelic mushrooms: Treat Cluster Headache and OCD

The psyclobin found find magic mushrooms that have effects similar to LSD, especially when for the treatment of chronic headache. Just as the acid, the amount is too small to give a psychedelic effect still can relieve pain and reduce the frequency of headaches. This drug also shows promise for treating OCD.

A University of Arizona study showed that those with the condition that their headaches may subside temporarily and in one patient, the headache lasted for six months recovering fully.

While the researchers admit this study does not necessarily prove that the drug can serve as a treatment, they only say it is quite promising for further study.