16-09-2016, 07:42 PM
You want to look for Red Reishi mushroom powder or extract to be specific. Like kudzu (the colloquial name for PM) there are many varieties and not all have the biological function we're seeking.
As for the feelings in the brainstem, you're correct that the organ of the brain has no sensory nerve endings in it, but that does not stop our system from mapping sensation seemingly to those areas. A manual therapy technique I use frequently with patients, causes a small percentage of folks to feel like their brain is being squeezed; not too dissimilar from what you are describing. The manual therapy technique in question is most assuredly not dangerous and the sensation reported is more along the lines of phantom limb pain or referred pain/sensation.
Do realize, there are NO nerves that conduct the sensation of pain to the brain. The brain is constantly interpreting normal sensory input and given the correct suite of inputs, interprets those as pain. Our CNS can be conditioned/hypersensitized to the point that clearly benign sensations (for instance, air from a fan moving across the skin) are perceived as searing, burning pain. Hence, I'm suggesting that the "tickling sensation in the brainstem" is likely to be referred sensation/pain and not a precursor to some horrible CNS condition.
Just saying.
As for the feelings in the brainstem, you're correct that the organ of the brain has no sensory nerve endings in it, but that does not stop our system from mapping sensation seemingly to those areas. A manual therapy technique I use frequently with patients, causes a small percentage of folks to feel like their brain is being squeezed; not too dissimilar from what you are describing. The manual therapy technique in question is most assuredly not dangerous and the sensation reported is more along the lines of phantom limb pain or referred pain/sensation.
Do realize, there are NO nerves that conduct the sensation of pain to the brain. The brain is constantly interpreting normal sensory input and given the correct suite of inputs, interprets those as pain. Our CNS can be conditioned/hypersensitized to the point that clearly benign sensations (for instance, air from a fan moving across the skin) are perceived as searing, burning pain. Hence, I'm suggesting that the "tickling sensation in the brainstem" is likely to be referred sensation/pain and not a precursor to some horrible CNS condition.
Just saying.