{"id":43198,"date":"2018-08-23T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/a-psychedelic-trip-to-holland-reveals-the-healing-powers-of-psilohuasca\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:00:13","slug":"a-psychedelic-trip-to-holland-reveals-the-healing-powers-of-psilohuasca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/a-psychedelic-trip-to-holland-reveals-the-healing-powers-of-psilohuasca\/","title":{"rendered":"A Psychedelic Trip to Holland Reveals the Healing Powers of Psilohuasca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many psychedelic adventurers have had both good and bad trips on &#x201C;magic mushrooms&#x201D; a.k.a. <em>psilocybe cubensis<\/em>, new research is demonstrating that these powerful fungi could be key to treating mental health conditions such as <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-real-promise-of-lsd-mdma-and-mushrooms-for-medical-science-100579\" rel=\"nofollow\">depression, anxiety, and substance abuse disorders<\/a>. However these little &#x2018;shrooms are still illegal as a Schedule I substance in the U.S. despite growing evidence of their medicinal benefits, but not so in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7sVcksTiI-g\"><\/p>\n<p>Join <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/cleansing-with-kambo-how-some-are-embracing-the-healing-powers-of-frog-medicine\"><em>Healing Powers<\/em><\/a> host Mareesa Stertz in Holland as she meets with psychedelic practitioner Oliver Martin, who combines psilocybin mushrooms with herbs like Syrian Rue containing MAO inhibitors \u2014 some of nature\u2019s most powerful antidepressants. Consumed together, these ingredients form a strongly hallucinatory medicine popularly known as \u201cpsilohuasca,\u201d with effects purported to go far beyond those of magic mushrooms alone.<\/p>\n<p>Mareesa seeks a trip that will soothe her overactive mind and anxiety, and after ingesting this psychedelic potion, she takes a \u201ctour of the universe,\u201d witnessing the \u201cunderlying building blocks of creation.\u201d Whoa. But does the experience yield any benefits for her day-to-day mental health? Watch the third episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/cleansing-with-kambo-how-some-are-embracing-the-healing-powers-of-frog-medicine\"><em>Healing Powers<\/em><\/a> now and find out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on psilohuasca, we recommend <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psilohuasca.com\/\"><em>psilohuasca.com<\/em><\/a><em>, and be sure to catch up on the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/at-weed-for-warriors-military-veterans-harness-the-healing-powers-of-marijuana\"><em>first<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/cleansing-with-kambo-how-some-are-embracing-the-healing-powers-of-frog-medicine\"><em>second<\/em><\/a><em> parts of Healing Powers while you&#8217;re at it \u2014 there&#8217;s a wild world of new medicine out there! &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHealing Powers\u201d host Mareesa Stertz goes to the Netherlands to experience the heady effects of combining magic mushrooms with MAO inhibitors \u2014 and sees the other side of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3035],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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