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A man injected hallucinogenic mushrooms into his body and they began to grow in his blood
This crazy story comes from the USA, where a man in his 30s who suffered from depression decided, on his own initiative of course, to inject himself with tea from hallucinogenic mushrooms. The ending of this story is good, but in the middle many strange and difficult things happened
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Sunday, 17 January 2021, 01:02
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Injected into the blood tea made from hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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We must say that this is one of the psychic headlines we have come across: a man was hospitalized after injecting himself with "tea" he made from hallucinogenic mushrooms and the fungus began to grow in his veins.
In a case report published in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry doctors describe a 30-year-old man, whose name was not released and was nicknamed "Mr. X", who performed self-medication for painkillers and depression.
He was brought to the hospital emergency room by his family, who were worried about his mental state.
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The family reported that he had recently stopped taking medications prescribed for him to treat bipolar disorder and as a result began to oscillate between depressive and manic mental states.
During this time he began to independently investigate the therapeutic effects of micro-dosage of LSD and psilocybin, a psychoactive substance produced by over 200 species of fungi.
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It has been shown in several trials that the compound psilocybin can have therapeutic effects, including relief of major depression, as well as anxiety and existential concern in terminally ill patients.
However, these results were obtained in controlled trials in which the drug was taken orally.
Mr. X obtained hallucinogenic mushrooms and made what he called "mushroom tea" by pouring boiling water over the mushroom, which contains the water-soluble psilocybin.
The compounds of the fungus can have therapeutic effects.
Hallucinogenic mushrooms (Photo: AP, AP)
Drinking mushroom tea is a method used by some who take the drug.
However, Mr. X took the extraordinary step of injecting the tea into the veins.
Following the injection he began to develop a number of problems.
Until his family discovered him a few days later, he suffered from jaundice, nausea, diarrhea, extreme confusion and vomited blood.
He began to suffer from organ failure, including the kidneys and lungs, and he suffered severe liver damage.
His heart rate was increased and he entered a septic market and was hospitalized in the intensive care unit.
Clots formed in his blood required investigation and treatment.
In perhaps the saddest part of the case study, the team describes how they took cultures from his blood and discovered that "the species of fungus he injected is now growing in his blood."
The answer to the question of whether the fungus that grew in his blood may have contributed to his confusion is unclear, given the other conditions that occurred in his body at that time.
"It is unclear whether active intravascular infection in a psychoactive fungus may cause persistent psychoactive effects as seen with fungal ingestion, which may further contribute to changes in perception and cognition," the team wrote in the report, adding that the case highlights the need to educate the public about dangers Drug use in contraindicated ways.
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