Tuesday03 Jun 04:48 PM
Incense Psychoactivity, Frankincense
"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...an international team of scientists...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." Link. (Thanks, Robert!) -[SA]
