Incense is psychoactive

[Caduceus Mercurius]

Incense is psychoactive: Scientists identify the biology behind the ceremony

Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. In a new study appearing online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org), an international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression. This suggests that an entirely new class of depression and anxiety drugs might be right under our noses.

“In spite of information stemming from ancient texts, constituents of Bosweilla had not been investigated for psychoactivity,

 

[GOD]

I tried the incense and i like eucalyptus much better . It doesnt taste and stink so bad .


LSD from Ergot . Well , with a "bit" of help .

 

[Meduzz]

I think I'll buy me some. I heared burning incense causes cancer, but as a cigarette smoker, that should not be a reason not to use it :lol:

PS: Sorry GOD, I don't have a source for the cancer claim. I guess I picked it up somewhere... btw, how is your third eye doing?

 

[GOD]

I had it surgicaly removed with my astrological chakras , they were rubing on eachother and getting sore .

 

[JustinNed]

Awesome study! And I heard that being on the internet causes cancer too!

 

[Devo]

uh so is frankencense the only one that helps the brain? eucalyptus? we have so many of those big ass trees out here!

 

[HeartCore]

Cool I've a bag with Frankincense here.

*wonders how long it will remain legal while heading off to fire some up*

 

[Pariah]

*sigh* we're not allowed incense in uni rooms :'( "fire hazard" apparently, ofcourse smoking's fine, no firehazard with ciggys.... :evil:

Frankincense and myrrh is my favorite too.

not to say that it stops me, but the cleaners get narky and suspicious when your room smells of something other than human odour.

 

[mountain-girl]

so what are they saying about like patchouli and opium insence? (ma two favorite, i love how they smell, i deffo get the calming anti depresive affect of them, but that could just be a mindset i come into upon smelling them-but is that only frankincense then?

 

[ProStoner]

I burn incense every day, but I have never ever heard of frankincense??
I thought the name was a joke at first ??? like the guy who discovered was called frank lol

where do I buy the frank stuff ?

 

[ararat]

frankincense

nah, nothing for me. reminds me too much of sitting in a church and funerals :E

I really like the sandalwood incense sticks. really nice smell.

 

[Guest]

frankincense

nah, nothing for me. reminds me too much of sitting in a church and funerals :E

Hehe, maybe that evens out the psycho-active effect

 

[Oracle]

2012 were all fucked party it up while you still can eat drink smoke do drugs 2012 will be the end or a new beginning.

 

[ararat]

2012 were all fucked party it up while you still can eat drink smoke do drugs 2012 will be the end or a new beginning.

the oracle has spoken.


*lights up some incense

 

[pooz321]

nag champa!!!

 

[Elfinn]

frankincense is used in exorcism of bad spirits from house or car.
witches know this.
Science does not like spirits
but it understands and loves difficult explanations that really is chuckoosnest.

 

[LysergicMike]

[quote:2wcaintx]“Perhaps Marx wasn’t too wrong when he called religion the opium of the people: morphine comes from poppies, cannabinoids from marijuana, and LSD from mushrooms; each of these has been used in one or another religious ceremony.

 

[tryptonaut]

Well, LSD comes from ergot, which is a fungus. Kind of a mushroom, is it?

By the way I think I'm converting to catholicism. I want my dose of free incense every sunday

 

[GOD]

Have we all tried it now ? Has one of you got high from it ? = NO .

 

[BrainEater]

LSD doesn't come FROM mushrooms....

It's just that a fungus has been existent in time previously to the synthesizing of LSD. And this fungus was supposed to have LSD in it containted...The name is "Ergot"... But in the timeline Albert Hoffman didn't INVENT it, he synthesized it by chance, but it had been invented before by NATURE.

tryptonaut i would be careful in joining sects....


peace :weedman: