Potential Herbal Cure for ADHD
October 21st, 2008 by Perry
A recently published medical study may have found helpful effects in treating the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with marijuana use. It also gave knowledge to recent debates over marijuana’s ability to effect those prone to psychosis.
Per Bruce Mirken @ Marijuana Policy Project Blog:
There was a correlation between signs of mental health disturbance and marijuana use for the group of siblings at genetic risk for psychosis, but not for the other groups. This suggests that marijuana may worsen the prognosis of those with a predisposition to psychosis but does not make healthy people psychotic.
In the ADHD group, the results suggested marijuana may be beneficial: In several of the tests, there was a trend toward better functioning among the marijuana using ADHD patients than among the non-users. In the article, the researchers discuss a possible mechanism by which marijuana “could attenuate some of the behavioral symptoms of ADHD.” This is an area that cries out for more research.
Makes perfect sense if you look at some of the associated symptoms, it makes you wonder why this hasn’t been tried earlier.
Take Two Tabs and Call Me in the Morning
October 10th, 2008 by Perry
While self-diagnosis is always shady, this man found a cure to his “cluster headaches,” through the use of LSD. I might be desperate enough to try acid if I suffered from CH.
According the article there are two types, and they both sound pretty shitty.
Sufferers of episodic CH are struck by headaches for one or two months of the year, often when the seasons change; the attacks can arrive at the same time each day and night. The symptoms then die down for up to 11 months before the cycle starts again.
Sufferers of chronic CH, however, enjoy no respite at all. They are plagued by up to nine attacks per day, every day; untreated, each attack can last up to two hours. CH is characterized by a pain so severe that it makes the most debilitating migraine look like a mild hangover.
Damn. Go ahead son – Tune in, Turn on and Drop Out.
They Forgot the Best Cure, All Natural
September 17th, 2008 by Perry
Leave it to the English to do a brilliant study on cures for the hangover blues.
While I’ve personally always found some legally, medically prescribed herb and a Sobe Green Tea the best route, there is something to be said for the methods they discuss. Friends swear by the greasy meal, which I think works for everything but Tequila hangovers, and good ole fashioned letting it out the way it came in. The article touches on some of the more common remedies including the uselessness of the hangover pill.
