A single dose of psilocybin - the active compound in magic mushrooms - reduces nerve pain for up to a month and makes a widely used painkiller work more effectively, finds a new study in mice. Psilocybin appears to restructure the way the brain’s pain-processing networks operate.

A single dose of psilocybin - the active compound in magic mushrooms - reduces nerve pain for up to a month and makes a widely used painkiller work more effectively, finds a new study in mice. Psilocybin appears to restructure the way the brain’s pain-processing networks operate.