How does peyote heal people?

Answer 1

Peyote is a very strong psychedelic, containing mostly Mescaline. Psychedelics can be used to explore one's own psychology, and can be used to change mental patterns. Healing done through peyote works on the theory that positive thought is healthy, sort of like a placebo, if the person believes they are healed, the body is more likely to recover. All peyote does is allow you to change the way you think, the way your mind works, it can be used to quit an addiction, or even to improve your chances at recovering from physical illness by changing your mental outlook.

Answer 2

According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, the DEA, Mescaline has absolutely no medical use. However, the DEA has a history of very poor analysis on the subject of medical uses. What can be conclusively said is that at this time, no medical benefits have been proven.

However, other psychoactives of the same type, namely those that deal with serotonin reception and release such as Psilocybin and MDMA respectively, have shown some psychotherapeutic value in a handful of studies. In fact, MDMA saw its first common usage as an empathy-inducing agent in couples undergoing marriage counseling in the early 1980's. Recent studies have indicated profound, long-lasting anti-depressive effects resulting from the administration of a single Psilocybin dose.