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[–] 14783845? 0 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago 

I work with plant medicines (ayahuasca, wachuma, tobacco etc) and would speculate as follows based on my experience with these:

We can analyze these things that come from nature and identify certain compounds like DMT, mescaline, nicotine etc. We can extract or synthesize these compounds. But these substances in isolation do not have remotely the same medicinal properties as the entire plant which might contain dozens of other alkaloids. Also a farmed plant often has no efficacy whereas only wild harvested ones grown in specific places will be good medicine (oregano oil for example). Similarly a young farmed ayahuasca vine may give visions, but it is not as interesting or powerful (regardless of dosage), as a very old one from the jungle, and so on.

To manage blood sugar we only need one specific hormone because we are only trying to achieve one well defined and measurable effect which is lowering the blood sugar.

But when it comes to psychoactive medicines and more holistic approaches to complex systems like the guts and nervous system, we need to work with the "full story" of the medicine which for certain plants even calls for treating it as a sacrament and approaching it through proper ritual by highly trained curanderos. There is much more to medicine than just pharmacology and we really do not understand all of it.

So I feel it's safe to assume that if there is such a thing as synthetic adrenochrome, it would not have nearly the same effect as the complete blood taken during a black magic / torture ritual. There is more going on in the blood than a single hormone. Spirit is real and inseparable from good medicine.

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[–] 14784074? 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

amazing post