I'm not so sure it's a matter of magical thinking vs. nonmagical thinking. There are things that work for me in the way my body reacts that do not work that way for others at all, and I sure ain't magical.
And there are some well-researched medications that have one effect on me but have the opposite effect on many others. Just as an example, diphenhydramine calms my nerves but gives some other people's nerves the jingle-jangles.
Science doesn't so much debunk what does or does not work for individuals--medical science is only interested in what works consistently for large portions of populations. The human body is way too complicated for science to have any conclusions on individual responses. Anecdotal evidence IS evidence. The point for population-based approaches is only how reliably the majority of people respond to something over time.
Anything that tips body chemicals and processes in any direction at all has the potential to be the substance or circumstance that causes YOUR body to cross a line one way or the other. You know your body and what has a tendency to have an effect on you. If you are in-tune enough to notice and to make a note of the effect of a mostly harmless substance on your body, emotions, or mind, use that substance however you wish to get beneficial effects. Just keep in mind that the effects may not be so beneficial for everyone when they try it--which proves nothing at all either way about how beneficial it is for you. And coming off of it for a while proves nothing, really, either way, if it was a beneficial effect
over time that allowed some healing to take place.
Personal perceptions have power. The placebo effect is real and often beneficial. Skeptics like me miss out sometimes. And the instinct to share what works for you is the right instinct to have, even when a number of us tend to take potshots at most anything not supported by reams of official literature over decades of time about hundreds of thousands of people. And in the case of what you mention, there is
plenty of evidence of it having a meaningful beneficial effect on some:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6471759/
The sort of source the frog may have used:
http://pennstatehershey.adam.com/conten ... gid=000932
