Consequently, the typical drug model, active principle(s) in multicomponent herbal medicines, cannot be applied to anything but synthetic drugs. The notion that coffee is caffeine held by some drug scientists a generation or two ago is no longer possible. But many of my drug-trained colleagues still hold onto the concept of an active principle in multiple-component herbs, unaware of, or ignoring other more important, also active, chemicals present. Some still practice it, leading to repeated false or irrelevant results. Seriously, how much of our published psychedelics research in the past century was due to uncertain identity or impurities containing highly active compounds (like LSD in psilocybin for whatever reason)?
For above reasons, I don’t consider our modern synthetic drug therapy scientific. Nor is it based on human experience and accumulated wisdom, as with traditional medicines Regardless, both therapies have merits despite their deficiencies. Which is why I have been advocating the use of both, but with prudence.
In my last post, I mentioned using both synthetic drug therapy and tried-and-true traditional medicines in treating our illnesses. That is only when we have no other alternatives like it is now, when we have available only synthetic drugs along with the vicious cycle (VC) they cause that in turn leads to unavoidable side effects and new diseases. They can be ameliorated by traditional medicines if available. However, the best alternative is to avoid or bypass using synthetics altogether. Now is as good time as any other to start for the following reason.
Since the synthetic drug era began about 150 years ago, we have been making both ingestible chemicals (as drugs & additives) and non-ingestible chemicals (for our convenience & pleasure) nonstop and ongoing. They must be hundreds of thousands, or millions, in number by now. Who knows what their tonnage is, and will be, a few decades from now. Since over 50 years ago, I already had succeeded in growing a totally natural magic mushroom mycelium (Psilocybe baeocystis) containing PBN (psilocybin baeocystin norbaeocystin), the closest analogs to serotonin (a hormone and neurotransmitter throughout our body which we might have studied closely and have invented specializations of which we are so proud. What exactly do or can these closest analogs do to our mental and physical health other than making them rest at serotonin ‘receptors’ (whatever and wherever they are). It has been over half a century since my discovery of 2 of these closest analogs to serotonin, no scientists have even succeeded in repeating my work despite it has been published in 4 detailed papers. When I rejoined the psychedelics movement about 5 years ago, on reviewing my work, I discovered we can actually rinse/wash my fungal mycelium with distilled water, dry it, and we would have a totally natural psychedelic product. No extraction with solvents or reagents is necessary. Hence, no contaminants from synthetic chemicals such as from biotech, enzymatic, or other technologies eventually will require extraction of the chemicals from mixtures of culture fluids.
More on the VC in my next post. So, until then!