A WOMAN appears to have cured herself of long Covid by taking psychedelic drugs. The 41-year-old was struggling with severe anxiety , depression, insomnia, joint pain, headaches and a low sex drive after contracting the virus in 2022. 1 Psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as magic mushrooms, mushrooms or shrooms being grown in a home based incubator.
Credit: Getty But after taking MDMA and psilocybin - the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms - while supervised, these symptoms seemingly vanished. Doctors are now investigating whether the substances could transform the lives of others. "To our knowledge, this is the first case report describing the potential efficacy of psychedelics for long Covid symptoms," Dr Harman Chopra, from John Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, US, said.
"This reinforces the need for more robust investigation with larger sample sizes into the use of psychedelics for a poorly controlled chronic illness such as long Covid." The woman was considered "healthy" and had received three vaccines before she tested positive for coronavirus in February 2022. After her fever, cough , sore throat and loss of smell cleared, she began to suffer from "severe" anxiety , depression and other cognitive difficulties like brain fog .
She also started to get headaches , pain in her hips, knees, shoulders and jaw, sleeping difficulties, a "sharp decrease in libido" and crippling fatigue . After blood tests and X-rays, medics could find no explanation .
