Posted by Larry Hoover on February 20, 2007, at 16:32:27
In reply to Re: Ketamine: a factory reset for the brain, posted by FredPotter on February 20, 2007, at 14:39:55
> Lar - The New Scientist article talks about a severe pain condition whose name I forget.
Is this the article?
http://www.ketamine.com/antidepressant-potential.html> Everything hurts apparently. And K works like magic.
Yes, RSD. Also known as complex regional pain syndrome. I've been diagnosed with that recently. They're injecting anaesthetic around my spinal canal Thursday. As I said, I'd go for the ketamine in a flash.
> I don't live in Oz and here in New Zealand "askance" doesn't begin to describe how my doc would look at me if I said, "Ketamine".
I hear ya. All they think of is drug-seeking.
> He's probably never heard of it anyway. What's this DMT? I thought LSD still topped the psychotropic charts
Dimethyl-tryptamine, if I recall correctly. There is a whole body of research into tryptamines and related molecules (a book called PIHKAL, for example). If you've got a background in organic chemistry, they're fairly easy to play around with. Everything you'd ever want to know is probably in Erowid:
http://www.erowid.org/http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dmt/dmt.shtml
Lar
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