{"id":3843,"date":"2012-02-22T09:16:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2012-02-22T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:23:44","slug":"fight-depression-with-frankincense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3843","title":{"rendered":"Fight Depression with Frankincense?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New research on the psychoactive properties of incense<\/a>. Surprise, surprise.<\/p>\n

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. This suggests that an entirely new class of depression and anxiety drugs might be right under our noses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research on the psychoactive properties of incense. Surprise, surprise. 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. 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