Last year, I started eating mushrooms again after about 16 years. I specifically picked it back up again with the intent of working through Complex PTSD. In December of 2019, I woke up one day with red, warm, painful bumps on my right and middle index fingers. Thinking they were bites of some sort (though it was in the dead of winter) I figured they would go away. It took until SPRING of 2020 for my fingers to feel any better. They were twice the size of my other fingers and itched and burned and were painful to bend for weeks and weeks on end until the weather warmed up. Then, I had my first trip in over a decade in July of 2020. Over the next few months, we decided to start growing our own and had our first big flush by January ‘21. By then, the itchy swollen, burning pain had returned not only in my fingers but in my toes now as well. I could barely walk and put weight on my right foot let alone put a show on it. I was feeling deeply depressed and PTSD symptoms were flared because of it so I ate a 2g dose of our B one evening and settled into bed to meditate. The next morning, all of my joint pain and swelling was gone! Since then, I make time to have a day at least once a month where I eat a larger dose any time I feel the pain starting to come back. Microdosing with turmeric mixed in helps tide me over as well. But it’s the bigger doses where so notice the most difference. I’m not sure if there is any scientific evidence out there that specifically shows psilocybin has anti inflammatory properties but I have noticed a difference too many times now that I have to say, it’s the shrooms. Good for my head and good for my joints!