Wood-lover paralysis is a poorly understood syndrome related to consuming a native species of magic mushroom, with sufferers ...

Psilocybin, the hallucinogen in some mushroom species, has now been shown to increase the lifespan of both cells and mice. The magic happens because psilocybin slows down the senescence, or ...

A hand in a blue glove plucks a white mushroom from a dense stand of mushrooms. Mature magic mushrooms are carefully harvested to minimize damage. Credit: Filament Health Some scientists theorize that ...

Dear Doctor Cat: There are a lot of parallels between the two. After all, this is plant medicine we’re talking about (and fungi, but you get the point). There are dozens, if not hundreds, of species ...

A farmer is concerned for the safety of people foraging for magic mushrooms, which he has sprayed with herbicide, as a toxicologist warns about the dangers of fungi.

Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edible products sold in Portland, Ore., and found no trace of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound that gives magic mushrooms their name. Instead seven of the ...

“We are in the middle of a rapidly evolving cultural, media, and legal landscape when it comes to psychedelics,” says Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Staff at psilocybin centers in Oregon have called 911 or taken a client to a hospital five times during the approximately 15 months since the state’s first licensed center began giving people magic ...