The use of illicit drugs for medicinal purposes is a controversial topic, as some countries in the world to allow the use ofmedical marijuana and other substances.
Currently the medical researchers continue to find in recreational drugs a surprising number of health benefits. Find out about some of these examples.
6. Magic mushrooms
Mushrooms containing psilocybin produce hallucinogens colorful, even when consumed in small amounts. There is alsosome evidence that small quantities of psilocybin can ease the symptoms of headaches (headaches), obsessive compulsive disorder and depression.
A research published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, in 2012 found that volunteers who consumed psilocybin had improved its ability to recall. Another study of 2012, published in the journal Proceedings, found that the drug reducedactivity in brain centers that are hyperactive in people with depression.
5. Ecstasy
Also known as MDMA, ecstasy is a synthetic compound that produces hallucinations, feelings of emotional warmth andhigh levels of energy. The same psychoactive properties that make Ecstasy so popular among the revelers may also make ituseful in treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
Another survey found that ecstasy has cancer-fighting properties robust, especially for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.In 2011, researchers at the University of Birmingham found that a slightly modified form of ecstasy was 100 times more potent to destroy cancer cells than the original form.
4. Cocaine
The leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca) have been used as a stimulant in South America for thousands of years.The drug derived from coke, being that to cocaine were assigned some health benefits. In fact, cocaine can be used as atopical anesthetic for surgical procedures, due to its quick-acting anesthetic properties.
When combined with other compounds in a preparation called TAC, cocaine can also treat minor skin lacerations, once thedrug is a vasoconstrictor effective (causes narrowing of the blood vessels).
Andrew Weil studied gastrointestinal effects of coca among South American communities. "If you look carefully themolecular Assembly of the coca leaf, you find 14 bioactive alkaloids ... While the cocaine acts as a stimulant of the intestine,other coca alkaloids can have precisely the opposite action. They inhibit the activity of the intestine, "says Weil.
3. LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD or acid, is a hallucinogen that has been widely used for decades, butrecent research concludes that he has some potential for the treatment of alcoholism. A study of Norway, published in 2012in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, suggest that LSD prevented alcoholics of recaír during treatment.
"LSD worked in a way totally different from all current psychiatric drugs," said the study's author, Teri Krebs, of theNorwegian University of science and technology. "Many patients said they had gained a new appreciation for his alcoholproblem and a new motivation to face it".
2. Ketamine (Ketamine)
Also known as "Special K", this animal tranquilizer is sometimes used as a recreational drug by participants of raves andother events. The drug can also effectively combat symptoms of depression.
A study of 2012 of the journal Science found that ketamine can help stimulate the growth of synapses in the brain and the beneficial effects of the drug in people with chronic depression can occur in hours.
"The rapid therapeutic response of ketamine in patients resistant to treatment is the greatest advance in the research ofdepression in half a century," he said in a statement the researcher Ronald Duman, professor of Psychiatry andNeurobiology at Yale University.
1. Marijuana
In addition to being the most widely used drug in the world, has a number of medical benefits. According to NORML (amarijuana advocacy group), 21 American States allow some use of medical marijuana.
It has been shown through years of scientific research that the drug can relieve chronic pain, prevent the disturbance ofpost-traumatic stress, stimulate the appetite for people with AIDS, control nausea, relieve the eye pressure associated withglaucoma, and help in the treatment of opiate dependence, as well as improve the symptoms of Crohn's disease.
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