“Magic” mushrooms could have helped a man with shade blindness differentiate between crimson and inexperienced higher, in response to a case report by medical doctors and researchers from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and the College of Alabama, Birmingham. A 35-year-old man with gentle deuteranomalia, a kind of red-green blindness, skilled “modest, long-lasting enhancements” in his red-green shade imaginative and prescient after a single dose of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. That is the primary printed experimental information or case report on this potential advantage of psilocybin, and, in response to the report’s authors, is taken into account anecdotal. So, extra analysis is required to know for positive the way it works and if it might assist others too.
Gizmodo:
[The man] had periodically taken a wide range of psychedelics over time, together with psilocybin, LSD, and DMT. After a few of these classes, he observed an enchancment in his red-green imaginative and prescient, which ultimately impressed him to conduct his personal experiment.
Simply earlier than he ingested a single dose of dried psilocybin mushrooms, the person took the Ishihara take a look at, a standard measure of red-green blindness. Then he saved taking the take a look at at common intervals for the subsequent 4 months, reportedly solely checking the solutions on the finish of the experiment. In some unspecified time in the future, he talked about his experiment with the medical doctors, who then administered their very own take a look at 436 days after his preliminary psilocybin use.
The Ishihara take a look at measures red-green shade imaginative and prescient utilizing coloured dot plates. A traditional rating is 17 or larger on plates 1-21. Earlier than taking magic mushrooms, the person scored 14. Six hours after, he scored 15, then 18 a day later, and peaked at 19 eight days later. Over a 12 months later, he scored 16, however had used different psychedelics within the meantime. The advance lasted at the least 16 days, but it surely’s unclear if the preliminary psilocybin dose triggered ongoing results. The person’s shade blindness probably comes from genetic mutations in retina cells, which psilocybin cannot repair. As a substitute, it would enhance the mind’s processing of restricted visible enter, as psychedelic customers typically report vivid shade alterations.
