Cluster Headaches & Mushrooms

In the #29 "TEONANACATL", The International Journal of Psychoactive
Mushrooms (TEO), August 2009 Issue, there is an article dealing with
"Cluster Headaches":
"LSD Proves to be Miracle Cure for Cluster Headaches"
What I thought was noteworthy.......the mention of mushrooms,
Psilocybin containing ones.  The Journal has published other
information on Mushrooms and Cluster Headaches in past Back Issues.
The entire #29 TEO will be posted up in another week or so at
www.mushroomsfmrc.com.  Just click "TEO Journals" off of the main
menu.  We leave Issues up for a good while, so several Back Issues are
up right now for free viewing and download.
Here is part of the said article..........
"Researchers do not know what causes the headaches, and there is no
accepted treatment. One business owner who goes by the pseudonym
"Flash" on Internet message boards related to the condition relates
his experience with various treatments: "My doctor did the worst thing
you can do to a person with cluster headache: he put me on normal
analgesics. Aspirin, paracetamol, codeine -- doubling up on the
codeine -- taking whatever you're allowed to each day," Flash says.
"It took the lining off my stomach, and it irritated the attacks until
they got out of control."  Other popular treatments such as beta-
blockers, blood pressure medications and antidepressants led to other
dangerous side effects, such as a slowing of the heart rate and
psychotic symptoms. #29 TEO August 2009  Page 02   Copyrighted
Material
Eventually, Flash decided to experiment with LSD, and found that after
one dose, his attacks immediately stopped for the next two years. When
he felt the next attack looming, he experimented with Psilocybin
mushrooms ("magic mushrooms"), which were just as effective. The
mushrooms were even effective at stopping an attack that he had
deliberately exacerbated with alcohol, as a test.

Anecdotal accounts like Flash's have attracted the attention of some
researchers, who note that many hallucinogenic compounds are
chemically similar to certain neurotransmitters and migraine
medications."
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community.  slp/fmrc
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