bindegal
05-29-2008, 11:38 AM
From www.thinkgene.com (http://www.thinkgene.com) :
Incense is psychoactive: Scientists identify the biology behind the ceremony (http://www.thinkgene.com/incense-is-psychoactive-scientists-identify-the-biology-behind-the-ceremony/).
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 appearing online in The FASEB Journal, an international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression.....
I always knew that incense had some mood altering effect. I had some idea that it work in some subtle way, like being in a room with a red light bulb change the way the room "feels". I did not suspect it was so strait forward as to work like a drug!
Incense is psychoactive: Scientists identify the biology behind the ceremony (http://www.thinkgene.com/incense-is-psychoactive-scientists-identify-the-biology-behind-the-ceremony/).
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 appearing online in The FASEB Journal, an international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression.....
I always knew that incense had some mood altering effect. I had some idea that it work in some subtle way, like being in a room with a red light bulb change the way the room "feels". I did not suspect it was so strait forward as to work like a drug!