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Summary: DMT, a natural component of ayahuasca tea, promotes neurogenesis, a new study reports. Researchers found DMT was capable of activating neural stem cells and promoted the formation of new neurons.
Ayahuasca tea an Amazonian Tea Stimulates the Formation of New Neurons - Neuroscience News
Ayahuasca tea is not tea you can buy in any shop and needs to be taken under supervision of a trained shaman. I know two people with Parkinson’s who have sworn by ayahuasca as a healing modality.
The other woman is in this video and did other alternative healing modalities to heal herself but says she believes she was misdiagnosed. youtu.be/90kAGBmtFpw
Thank you! I am unable to watch the video - it won’t play for me Is there a link to the YouTube? I may be able to see it that way. Also do you know of a way to obtain the tea? Thanks!
The only way I would recommend drinking ayahuasca tea is in a ceremony with a shaman. It’s a very strong psychedelic. Look up ‘The Man Who Drank the Universe’ that’s the name of the video. It’s about half an hour long.
Thank you! I wish I knew a shaman in my area. New York State.
There are people who do ayahuasca ceremonies in the US. In the UK where I live ayahuasca is a class A drug and so ceremonies are very undergoing. I’m not sure on the legality in NY state.
Thank you. I am interested and will try to find. Probably not on Google!
Lots of mention in Google Scholar but mainly about it being hallucinogenic.
DMT is extremely powerful and yes, it is advisable to take it with a guide. There is a book by Michael Pollan called "How to Change Your Mind" that talks about ayahuasca, DMT, psilocybins and other plants and chemicals that perform neurogenesis. There have been many accounts of these hallucinogens being more than just a high and they are FINALLY studying them in a clinical way. Paul Stamets is also a big advocate of psilocybins ("magic mushrooms") and other medicinal mushrooms. You can find a lot of his work online.
I believe Oregon just voted to legalize magic mushrooms, so in the US, this could be an easier plant than ayahuasca to get a hold of, and it has similar effects but in less intense ways (depending on your dosage of course).
From what I know, it won't take away Parkinson's, but can help with mood, depression and who knows what other things.
Important info. Thank you.
This is a good resource on microdosing psilocybin!:
Full disclosure, microdosing psilocybin 10000% helped my dad with his mood and depression. We crushed the mushrooms in a coffee blender, weighed 0.15 grams and capped them ourselves. We did 6 weeks on (of 1 day on, 2 days off) and then 2 months off, then 6 weeks on again, then 4 months off, 4 weeks on, and have been 4 months off with the effects lasting. He is happy, expressive and able to better cope with pd. The transformation was REALLY noticeable and pretty incredible. He is still himself and really, what changed was that he got out of his rut. I think because of the social taboos and the laws around it, people are scared of psilocybins, but it is just a mushroom that grows naturally and has been used for hundreds, if not thousands of years, by different cultures.
"Four cities (Denver, Oakland, Ann Arbor, and Santa Cruz) have already decriminalized psilocybin, and a 2005 court ruling made it technically legal to grow mushrooms in New Mexico. Meanwhile, promising work from institutions like Johns Hopkins and NYU is at the center of what’s being called a “psychedelic renaissance” in the United States."
“unwell” is a Netflix series that shows a Shaman lead Ayahuasca ceremony in Mexico I think. I know someone who had a bad experience and believes it had a negative affect on their life. This person does not have PD.
It certainly isn't for everyone and there are other factors that come into play, including a person's mental and emotional state going into it. Definitely there have been cases of people going into psychosis, which certain psychiatrists have been able to treat.
reading this, i looked it up and there is a ayahuasca church here is winnipeg!
Ayahuasca, also know as, Banisteriopsis caapi, has been tested against parkinsonism, as well as its components, harmine/norharmine...etc...as far back as the 1920's and 30's. The following article has film footage of encephalitis lethargica/Von Economo's Encephalitis patients from those distant years.
Banisteriopsis caapi, a Forgotten Potential Therapy for Parkinson's Disease?
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Dihexa peptide shows potential for PD and ALZ and (I believe) is currently available 
