Posted by steve on March 22, 2001, at 13:27:56
In reply to Re: Name-Calling, posted by roo on March 22, 2001, at 12:24:42
Since you mention using mold as a therapy, it might interest you to know that the first hallucinogens were ergot mold.
Women with loose mores would soak the likes of a broom handle in water contaminated with that mold, and then insert it to a bodily aperture in a manouver psychiatry once acknowledged as a treatment for PMS, hence the notion that they rode brooms.
Ergot would commonly make them psychotic, as it is related to LSD, and the authorities of the time would diagnose them as "possessed," and organize a BBQ. Today our authorities also recognize that something is seriously wrong with people who voluntarily slip into a psychotic state, and provide bucolic if involuntary accomodations to remove them from society.
And now they want to risk inflicting such suffering on those already screwed up! Why don't they start with themselves!
S.
> ...Lots of cures have been discovered in ways that
> were originally thought of as "crazy" or "weird".
> Penicillin, for example. In the old days, wood cutters
> used to put moldy slices of bread on their cuts to
> cure their wounds...who'da thunk it?
> Just something to think about :-)
poster:steve
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