Amanita, the king of mushrooms - a well-known representative of the family Amish. To date, there are more than a dozen species of these mushrooms. They all have such a familiar, familiar name and they are all poisonous. The red mushroom is especially common in our country. From July to October, it can be found everywhere in forest zones, on the territory of the tundra, next to shrub birches. It is easy to see on a bright hat.

By their bright coloring, the fly agarics signal to everyone around about their danger. Indeed, eating even a small piece can be deadly. On the other hand, it is a fly agaric that has been used by people for therapeutic purposes for many centuries. With it, the fearless Vikings strengthened their physical endurance, the ancient Greeks used it for high sporting achievements. In Russia, with its help, healed a lot of diseases.

What can be valuable as a mushroom mushroom, medicinal properties, what are its? Talk about it today. And also consider the recipes of therapeutic agents based on it:

What does a mushroom mushroom look like? Description

Amanita refers to the saprophytic fungi. His fruit body is a cap on the stem. It is dense, fleshy, reaches sizes up to 20 cm in diameter. In young mushrooms, the cap is spherical, bright, studded with white or yellowish warts.

With the age of the fungus, the cap becomes convex-prostrate shape. The edges of its thin, ribbed. The surface is adhesive, shiny, has a red or orange-red color. In old mushrooms, the hat becomes pale pink, even yellowish, covered with numerous faded wart scales. It is rare to find fly-agaric completely without them.

What is mushroom mushroom valued for? Medicinal properties

For a long time and until now, folk medicine has been using toadstools to treat various diseases. Healers collect young mushrooms, dry them, and then prepare tinctures, powders, healing ointments. Traditional medicine does not use amanita because of their high toxicity.

It should be noted that for medicinal purposes it is exactly the red type of mushroom that fits. This poisonous, dangerous forest dweller helps to cure a person from tuberculosis, epilepsy. It is used in the treatment of paralysis, sclerosis, diseases of the bones, joints. With it, they treat impotence.

Funds based on it relieve women from severe menstrual pain, treat many gynecological diseases. Agaric remedies relieve the symptoms of severe menopause.

The tincture of this fungus is used externally to treat dermatitis, eczema, and neurodermatitis. It is effective in diathesis, skin tuberculosis. It is used to treat purulent wounds, used for various external tumors.

The poisonous fly agaric will help with muscular and headache, joint inflammation, rheumatism, and radiculitis. It is quite effective in osteochondrosis, diabetes.

In addition, therapeutic agents from it have a pronounced fortifying effect on the entire body. They soothe the nervous system, are used as an effective hypnotic.

Preparation of tincture

For cooking, you need to collect the caps of not old mushrooms (3-4 pieces), wrap in a bag, put the refrigerator on the shelf, leave for two days. Mushrooms cut, wearing gloves. Wash hands thoroughly after handling.

When you get the caps out of the fridge, knead them with your hands to a slurry. Put it in a clean jar, fill it with vodka, so that its level is 1 cm above the surface of the mushroom mass. Close tightly, put in the refrigerator for 2 weeks. Strain the finished product, pour into a dark glass container. Close it tightly with a lid, keep it out of reach of children, at room temperature. Use externally - rub into sore spots several times a day. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water after use.

Amanita ointment

This remedy is effective for the treatment of arthritis, sciatica. Also used for the treatment of radiation injuries, allergic rashes. To prepare rub the fresh caps. Mix the resulting slurry with the same amount of sour cream. Mix thoroughly until smooth. Store in the refrigerator.

At bedtime, apply the resulting product on a thick cloth, put on a sore spot. Cover the top with a film. Warm up, secure with a bandage. In the morning, remove the compress, wash the skin with warm water and soap. Relief comes through 10 procedures.

Remember that the fly agaric is extremely poisonous. Therefore, they should begin treatment with a high degree of caution. It is necessary to strictly observe the dosage in the preparation, the use of therapeutic agents from it. It is even worth halving the dosage at the beginning.

Keep the tincture, ointment in a place inaccessible to children. Do not use products from the mushroom inside yourself !!! Such treatment should be carried out under the supervision and supervision of an experienced specialist. Self-treatment can lead to serious, and sometimes irreparable consequences, death. Be healthy!

Sorcerous fly agaric was used in secret magical rituals all over the world, and the Slavs were no exception. An infusion was made from this fungus, which was drunk just prior to the execution of the magical rite of initiation. Infusion of amanita used also in order to enhance the ability of clairvoyance.
Some witches constantly kept a fly agaric on the altar. Amanita are considered an attribute of Baba Yaga. It is believed that around her hut the highest concentration of these mushrooms, because she constantly uses them in her broth and infusions.

Amanita is a well-known poisonous mushroom, but this does not prevent it from possessing medicinal properties that are used in traditional medicine. As often collecting mushrooms in the forest, we admired these beauties. They actually attract the eye with their appearance. We pass by with regret, because we know that they are not suitable for food, but we do not even suspect that there are medicinal properties of the red mushroom that can be useful to us.
  General information
  Amanita belongs to the species of agaric mushrooms family Amanitovye. This name he received due to the fact that it is very often used as an insecticide against flies. At first it applied only to the red mushroom, but later spread to the whole genus. They grow throughout Russia.
Virtually all amanitas are not only not edible, but also highly poisonous. Deadly fungi include smelly fly agaric and pale toadstool. Unfortunately, they are often mistaken for edible mushrooms. The exception, from the poisonous genus, is a very small part of the mushrooms. Some of them are gray-pink fly agaric and Caesar fungus, which in southern European countries has the status of a delicacy.
  The red fly agaric belongs to a moderate degree of toxicity, and is endowed with a hallucinogenic property, but it is rarely fatal if eaten. The content of poisons in it varies greatly, but it is believed that the lethal dose of red amanita equals 15 caps.
  The body of the fungus contains a number of substances that have psychotropic and toxic effects - ibotenic acid, muskason, muscimol, muscarin and a number of other substances, which in some cases can also have a therapeutic effect. These substances are partially destroyed in hot water, so eating them, after heat treatment, can only lead to a weak poisoning. However, this does not mean that after boiling red amanita in several waters, it will go into the category of edible mushrooms.
  Medicinal properties of the red mushroom
  The modern pharmacological industry uses some medicinal properties of the red mushroom for the preparation of drugs. It can be a part of medications that are used to treat angina, epilepsy, spinal cord diseases, and vascular spasms.
  As an external agent, it is part of ointments that help in the treatment of the following diseases:
  - poorly healing wounds (pressure sores, boils, fistulas);
  - venous pathology (varicose dilatation, thrombophlebitis);
  - pathology of the nervous system (neuralgia, osteochondrosis, neuritis);
  - joint pathology (arthritis, arthrosis);
  - with warts and papillomas;
  - other skin pathologies (psoriasis, fungus, dermatitis, eczema, pyoderma).
  In France, the red fly agaric is included in the composition of drugs that are used as hypnotic drugs.
  Healers knew about the medicinal properties of the red mushroom, therefore they used it for a long time (as a tincture) to treat various diseases:
  - atherosclerosis;
  - insomnia;
  - tuberculosis;
  - hypertension;
  - constipation;
  - impotence;
  - ischemic heart disease;
  - nervous overexcitement;
  - diabetes;
  - convulsions;
  - epilepsy.
The use of drugs, based on the fungus, shows good results with severe menopause and painful menstruation. The red fly agaric contains pigments that have an antitumor effect, and therefore is also used to treat cancer, but scientifically confirmed cases of recovery have not been identified.
  Preparation of tinctures for external use
  As a medical dressing, rubbing and compresses, you can make tincture or use the juice of a red mushroom that has an antitumor and immunostimulating effect.
  Tincture
  Chop up the collected fly-agarics and put them in a cold place for 3-4 days. Put the mushroom mass into the jar, and fill it with vodka so that it is 1 cm higher than the level of the mushrooms. Close the container tightly and store in a dark place for 2-3 weeks. The tincture prepared in this way retains its medicinal properties for 2-3 years. For external use only!
  The juice
  Finely chop up a few fly-agaric mushrooms, put them in a jar and put pressure on top. Clean in a dark cool place for 2 days. After the appearance of the juice, squeeze the mushroom mass well and strain. Store juice for no more than 3-5 days in a cool place. To make a tincture from it, you need to dilute it with water in a 1: 1 ratio. For external use only!
*** Recipes with tincture for internal use, there are many. Before you prepare and use it, carefully review all the recipes and dosages, because your health depends on it. Consult with your doctor about the benefits of such treatment and the possible consequences.
  Contraindications
  Tincture is contraindicated in children, pregnant and lactating women, with diseases of the pancreas and liver, gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.
  First aid in case of poisoning with a red mushroom
  Despite the use of amanita for medicinal purposes, due to its toxicity, it must be used extremely carefully and strictly follow the dosage. In case of poisoning with a fungus or a preparation prepared on its basis, it is necessary to take urgent measures to avoid undesirable consequences.
  Signs of poisoning can be: severe abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, impaired breathing, drooling, increased sweating, constriction of the pupil, seizures, low blood pressure, hallucinations, delirium, loss of consciousness. At the first symptoms of poisoning it is necessary to urgently call an ambulance.
Before the arrival of the doctors, give the patient first aid - flush the stomach. To do this, he must drink plenty of pure water and induce vomiting. After that, give it activated charcoal and laxative.

How to be treated with poisonous handsome-fly agaric? (a little more)
It is no secret that drugs from poisonous plants, if used in the right proportions, have certain healing effects and can be used to treat and prevent many diseases. This fully applies to the treatment of red toadstools growing in mixed and coniferous forests throughout almost all of Europe and Asia.
A man got acquainted with the healing properties of the fly-agaric for a long time, apparently, having noticed that these animals are eaten in small quantities by many animals.
Over time, scientists also became interested in fly-agarics, who determined that these mushrooms contain alkaloids and a number of other substances that can cause serious poisoning: bufothenin, mycoatropin, muscarin, muscimol, hyoscyamine, Fallin, ibotenic acid, etc.
Scientists have observed the effects of various methods of eating red amanitas among the peoples of Siberia and the North, where these mushrooms are traditionally used both in shamanic practice and as an invigorating potion or to treat a number of diseases. During the expedition of 1787 to Siberia, the naturalist and ethnographer Academician I.G. Georgi made a curious note: “When someone eats a fresh mushroom at the same time or drinks a boil on three dried ones, after this, he first speaks and then does so quickly that he sings, jumps, exclaims, composes songs, shows extraordinary power” .
When used red fly agaric in reasonable quantities, a certain therapeutic effect is possible.
If the safe dose (individual for different people) is slightly exceeded, usually without serious consequences, the person feels a surge of strength, gaiety, heart palpitations, and a distorted perception of reality and hallucinations may appear.
When you use fly agarics in a significant amount, severe dizziness, vomiting, visual disturbance, shortness of breath, cardiac abnormalities, convulsions. If a person with similar signs of poisoning does not provide timely assistance, coma and death can occur.
Recently, toadstools began to be used in pharmacology for the manufacture of certain drugs.
In the reference books on traditional medicine, you can find various recipes for the preparation of preparations of fly agarics, including for the treatment of oncological diseases.
Amanita is not a panacea, and taking preparations made from it is possible only after consultation and under the supervision of a doctor. In this regard, to give any advice on the manufacture of drugs for oral administration and their dosages are not at risk. But I will tell you about external use in detail, since the fly agaric has an excellent wound-healing effect, copes even with chronic ulcers and boils, and usually relieves joint pain and tumors in a matter of hours.
It happens that tourists, hunters or mushroom pickers in the forest are carelessly injured: skin lesions, bruises, sprains, dislocations. In these cases, the fly agaric can come to the rescue.
In case of emergency, the fungus can be used fresh. Usually, for this, they take the caps of young spherical or cone-shaped mushrooms, knead (it is better to do all this without using metal objects), and the resulting mass is gauged through gauze or rag to the sore spot. It is advisable to gruel from the mushroom to cover the top with a piece of some film so that the mushroom juice is not absorbed into the bandage. After a few hours, the pain begins to subside, and the wounds and lesions on the skin heal.
If there is a possibility, it is desirable to prepare special preparations for external use from fly-agaric, especially as it is easy to make them. One of the simplest preparations is an ointment. To prepare the ointment, use a mixture in a ratio of about 1: 1 of a powder of dried mushrooms with petroleum jelly, vegetable oil, or animal fat. This ointment is good for muscle and joint pain, radiation injuries and various skin diseases. It can be used for compresses. Just do not forget after you apply the ointment to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water. However, this also applies to the use of other external preparations of the mushroom.
The greasy preparation can also be prepared from fresh toadstools, which are ground and mixed in equal quantities with sour cream. This drug is good for rheumatism, radiculitis, arthritis and arthrosis. From the evening, apply ointment to the sore spot, cover with a film and wrap well. In the morning remove the bandage, and the place of application of ointment, wash with warm water and soap. The drug can be stored for 7-10 days in the refrigerator (cool place) in a ceramic or glass container.
Once again, in the manufacture of preparations of fly agarics metal objects (dishes, knives, tolkushki, etc.) should not be used.
There are a significant number of preparations of fly agaric, for the manufacture of which requires a certain time.

The simplest is pasta (gruel) from fresh mushrooms.
To make it, several toadstools can be broken down or cut into small pieces, folded into ceramic or glass dishes, pressed down with a yoke (with a stone, a plastic bag with water) and put in a dark place for two days. After the appearance of copious juice, grind a lot to a pasty state. Use - like sour cream. It helps well in treating ulcers, wounds, boils, but it should not be applied directly to the skin, after covering the sore spot with a cloth, several layers of gauze or a thin layer of cotton wool.
For external use of the mushroom you can make tincture or squeeze the juice. To prepare the juice, use the previous method, only the mass that gave the juice is not ground, but squeezed through several layers of gauze. Fresh juice can be used for 3-5 days for compresses and bandages.
If the juice is diluted in equal proportion with vodka, you get the simplest tincture. Used for therapeutic dressings, compresses and rubbing.
For another version of the preparation of tincture, the mushrooms are crushed and kept for 2-3 days in a cold place. Then they are tightly placed in a jar and filled with vodka so that it protrudes 0.5–1 cm above the mushroom mass. The jar is tightly closed with a lid and kept in a dark place for at least two weeks.
For therapeutic purposes, you can use both tincture and mush.
Tincture of the mushroom can be stored in a dark place for 2-3 years, almost without losing its healing properties.
There are more complex methods of preparation of drugs.
To obtain the present juice, the Amanitas are crushed, filled to the top with a glass jar, which is sealed (not with a metal lid) and placed in a dark place for 25-30 days. During this time, mushrooms give abundant juice, which accumulates in the lower part of the jar. The mushroom mass is discarded, and the juice is used for medicinal purposes.
Apparently, with this method of obtaining juice, some kind of fermentation takes place in it, which enhances its healing properties.

When using preparations of fly agaric, it is desirable to follow simple rules.
It should not be forgotten that the fly agaric contains strong poisons that have medicinal properties only in small doses when taken orally and with limited external use.
Preparations from the mushroom, with rare exceptions, are not used in the treatment of children.
During the day, a bandage with preparations of fly agaric may be in a sore spot from 4 to 10 hours.
In radiculitis, arthritis, arthritis, etc., preparations of fly agarics relieve pain, reduce inflammation and edema, but changes in the cartilage and intervertebral hernia are not treated.
Red amanitas for medicinal purposes can be harvested throughout the summer.
Collect only the caps of young mushrooms.
For long-term storage of amanitas dried or prepared from them tincture.
You can dry the mushrooms in the sun or in the shade in a well-ventilated place.
Thermal drying is undesirable.
Dried mushrooms are stored at room temperature out of the reach of children, of course, separately from food.
Do not be afraid to pass for the, to put it mildly, the original, by typing in the summer a basket of toadstools.
When properly used, these beautiful poisonous mushrooms can be a good helper in the treatment of many diseases.

The red fly agaric is not a “grebe” at all, but rather a very interesting, even an extraordinary mushroom. Do you know everything about the red mushroom, its properties and application?

Hello, dear reader!

Amanita red is well known to all.

I start with this rather trivial statement because I am not sure of its fairness. Of course, the fruit bodies of the red mushroom with their bright, memorable appearance certainly know if not all, then most of the mushroom pickers and ordinary forest walkers.

But on the properties of the fungus is usually known only that it would be better to call the "myths about the mushroom."

Amanita red: description and properties

Approximately in the middle of summer mushrooms appear in large quantities in various types of forests, which are extremely difficult not to notice, and even more confused with others. Red Amanita grows in pine and spruce forests, and most often in coniferous-deciduous forests. It forms mycorrhiza with and spruce, with larch, cedar and birch. It readily “masters” other types of trees.

There were red fly-agaric mushrooms - the real mushroom season began!

Scientists consider the northeast of Asia to be the homeland of the amanita (perhaps Beringia is a land that appeared several times on the site of the Bering Sea and connected Eurasia and North America). Date of birth is also called (albeit not very accurately): 20 - 30 million years ago. It was from these lands, along with the taiga natural complexes, that the red Amanita began the journey around the world, settling not only Eurasia with America. The man, not wishing at all, helped the fungus to get even to Australia and New Zealand, where the mushroom has now become a serious environmental problem.

The shape of the fruit body is very peculiar. To the light of the fungus appears covered in a white bedspread. And the shape and size at this time it resembles an egg. They say that sometimes inexperienced mushroom pickers may even confuse a mushroom with a rain cover, although it is hard to believe in it.

Such is the red fly agaric in "youth"

Rapidly increasing in size, the fruit body becomes first hemispherical. You can already distinguish between a cap and a leg. On the upper side of the cap, covered with a skin of red or orange-red color, there are scattered “wadded” patches of white or yellowish color. These are remnants of a blanketing mushroom. The underside of the cap is still covered by it, and the plates on it are not visible.

Sometimes, especially in rainy weather, a part of the white spots from the surface of the cap may disappear, be washed away by the rain. But from this fungus does not cease to be easily recognizable.

This red mushroom mushroom has a little white spots - washed away by rain.

After a few days, the cap finally unfolds, becomes flat and even concave. The white plates are completely open, the spores of the fungus ripen on them. From the bedspread, in addition to the bumps on the cap, there remains a film ring on the leg. In a mature mushroom, the edges of the ring are down.

At the base of the legs tuberous thickening is clearly visible, and there are two more on it - three rings, as if nested in one another. Such education is usually called the vagina (or Volvo).

The flesh of the cap is white, only yellowish under the skin. White flesh and the legs of the fungus. When cutting the color does not change. In the young mushroom, the leg inside is solid, to the "old age" in the lower part of it a cavity is formed.

The genus Amanita (Amanita), in addition to the red mushroom, include pale toadstool, Panther fly agaric, Royal Fly Amanita, white toadstool (stinky fly agaric) and some other species.

Properties of amanita red and some myths about it

As part of the red mushroom there are about a dozen poisonous substances, including the alkaloid muscarine, the name of which was produced from the Latin name of the fungus. This poison is quite strong - a lethal dose of half a gram for a person. But in the mushroom red muscarin is not so much, for the "set" of this dose would need to eat five pounds of fresh mushrooms, and even ten for "one sitting." Of course, excluding other toxic substances.

There are also ibotenic acid (from the class of amino acids), its muscimol derivative, and alkaloid bufotenin in our forest beauty. This trinity is responsible for the hallucinogenic properties of the red mushroom. The content of other poisons is much less than the four named.

Of course, having used the red fly agaric as food, a person will recover. For this, an adult needs only one large cap. The first signs of poisoning appear after half an hour - an hour (up to one and a half hours). Heart palpitations, dilated pupils of the eyes, nausea, profuse salivation, sweating. If several mushrooms are eaten, auditory and visual hallucinations occur, blood pressure drops, drowsiness occurs. Seizures may occur, even epileptic seizures may occur.

First aid for such poisoning - it is necessary to induce vomiting, pressing his fingers on the root of the tongue. Pre-injured need to drink at least a liter of warm water with activated carbon or with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. In severe cases, you need the help of doctors.

However, for some reason, the written history of mankind practically does not know of the fatal poisoning of the red mushroom. Apparently, for this you need to make just tremendous efforts! It is estimated, for example, that you need to eat at least 20 large toadstools. It is claimed that one American seemed to succeed in the 19th century. In most cases, all the symptoms disappear in a few hours.

Who gets poisoned with red mushroom, if you consider that the accidental use of the fungus is almost impossible (well, it doesn’t really look like edible mushrooms!)? Small children, out of curiosity? But one should hardly leave such children completely unattended, especially in the forest! Yes, and acquaint them with this mushroom, starting from kindergarten - at least in pictures.

Poisoning get most often lovers of "thrills" who use the fungus as a hallucinogen. Do you think that this is a foolish, but deliberate, choice?

Red Amanita used in their practice, the shamans of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East, as well as the peoples of America to achieve "quick contact" with the spirits. Although, according to the descriptions of ethnographers, this method was not even the main one for shamans. Most often they brought themselves to trance dancing and beatings in a tambourine. And the fly agaric was used only in emergency cases. Or for a change?

More about myths. In the detachments of the Norman-Vikings there were such berserkers - fierce, almost violently obsessed fighters who threw themselves into a fight, sparing neither the others nor themselves, not paying attention to the wounds. "It is well known" that before the battle they ate an Amanita. Even in the movies about the Viking show!

That's just ... Well, somehow a furious, fearsome warrior doesn’t fit in - and the loss of balance, and then the convulsions of a fighting epileptic fit ... No, the berserkers, of course, did. Only the fly agaric here, most likely, "not in the business."

It is also curious that the generally accepted opinion that flies are dying from the poison of the mushroom mushroom, turned out to be in reality too ... a myth! Interested scientists conducted fairly simple experiments. Flies, drunk water with a fly agaric, removed from the water and placed in a dry place. After a while, a dead fly ... revived and flew away!

It turned out that the drunk insects just sank in the water! There is even an opinion that insects do not accidentally visit the saucer hats of large toadstools with rainwater in them, as well as saucer-plates placed in the rooms with water or milk, with added pieces of fungus. They are also looking for "thrills", arriving at the smell of ibotenic acid and muscimol.

Finally, the notorious “strong poisonousness” of the red mushroom is refuted by the fact that some fans of these mushrooms ... boil and eat! Without any consequences.

Poisonous Amanita when boiled go into the water. True, boil the mushrooms advise two or even three times, with pouring broth and subsequent washing of mushrooms.

Interested will send on michael Vishnevsky sitewhere the author visually and in detail (with pictures) describes the process, shares his own experience in the preparation of an exotic dish.

In general, of course, Mikhail Vishnevsky convinced me - you can eat a red mushroom after appropriate treatment. But I still have a question - why? Well, unless we imagine a hypothetical situation: there is absolutely nothing except mushrooms; and there is absolutely nothing out of mushrooms, except for toadstools ...

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Medicinal properties of the red mushroom

For centuries, people have been using red mushroom for medicinal purposes. Moreover, this is not related to shamanic practice. And the fungus is usually applied externally. And the people of Siberia, most likely from the Russians, learned about its healing use.

The use of red amanita is associated with its undoubted anti-inflammatory, wound-healing and anesthetic properties. Suppose a man received a wound, and even in the forest, when you still need to get to the nearest pharmacy or clinic. Or he erased his feet to bloody blisters, which also happens with inexperienced mushroom pickers and tourists.

If in the forest at this time you can get a red mushroom cap, then take a few of these caps, knead and tie to the wound. It will help necessarily, at least as a first aid!

It is more efficient to prepare gruel of mushroom, but here it will take some time.

Finely chopped mushrooms are placed in non-metallic dishes and kept under pressure for at least two days.

Apply a bandage to the wound, a slurry that has given it juice. Top cover with a film, so as not to get wet, and pinned for two - three hours. Then remove the bandage, take a break and repeat the procedure. The maximum possible use of such a compress - 8 hours (at night).

When radiculitis, sciatica, rheumatism, it is advised to attach an ointment of fresh toadstools with sour cream to sore spots for the night.

Ingredients are taken in equal parts (by weight). They are ground to homogeneous mass in ceramic or earthenware (excluding contact with metal).
  Put the ointment on the sore spot like a slurry from the previous recipe, only additionally wrap for heat. In the morning, the compress is removed, and the skin is washed with warm water.

Unfortunately, the shelf life of such an ointment is no more than a week (in a glass jar, in a refrigerator).
  But for anesthesia for radiculitis, pain in the joints, you can use alcohol tinctures of amanita. This tool is familiar to me not only from books - I do and apply as necessary. It can be stored for up to three years. Although usually still cook for a year.

We grind up mushrooms and keep them in a cool place for three days. We put in a half-liter glass jar, filling it by about two-thirds. Fill 0.5 liters of vodka. The jar is covered with a lid and set for two weeks in a dark place.

After insisting, you can not filter it - this gruel is also healing. Store the tincture in a cool place (you can in the fridge).

Rub the lower back or sore joints at night, wrap a warm scarf or rug. In the morning remove everything, rinse skin.

Amanita red - a panacea?

In recent years, the Amanita muscaria has become quite a popular remedy for the treatment of many diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, tuberculosis, and cancer. In a word - "panacea for everything." Certain prerequisites for this, of course, exist. For example, it was found that the orange pigment muscarufin, which provides skin color, inhibits the development of tumors.

But I do not believe in a panacea, alas ... Maybe this is not true. When a person believes in medicine, it helps. But it’s clear that I’m arranged ...

Yes, and reviews of recovery (primarily from cancer) are often some kind of ... weird. First, they, these reviews, are arranged according to the principle “someone somewhere from someone heard that ...”. I don’t personally know a single person to whom the amanita would help to overcome a terrible disease (I have passed or regularly undergoing chemotherapy). Secondly, the given dosage causes a very big doubt in the reviews: “for a teaspoon”, “for half a glass”.

As far as I know, the main means of oral administration of a mushroom is alcohol tincture. And they drink it with drops, but not at all. On the first day - 1 drop for half a glass of water, on the second - 2 drops ... And so to twenty drops, and then - to reduce the dose per day drop by drop.

Yes, there is an expression: "Any poison in a certain proportion is a medicine." And I agree with him. But the main words here are all the same - “in a certain proportion.” And an expert should determine it!

All recipes on my blog are published for reference only. Tips for the treatment of any disease should give a doctor!

Of course, the red fly agaric is an extraordinary mushroom. So many animals (the same moose) eat it. Are you feeling hurt? Quite possible. For the mushroom picker, it can also be useful as a kind of indicator. There were a lot of well-visible amanitas in the forest in large quantities - it makes sense to look for other mushrooms that are not so noticeable, but valued for their taste. For example, with which the fly agaric often grows in some places.

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Amanita muscaria
Taxon: family Amanita or Amanitovye ( Amanitaceae)
Other names: Amish, a fly agaric
English: Fly Agaric, Fly Mushroom

Botanical description of the red mushroom

Poisonous psychoactive fungus. A mushroom cap up to 20 cm in diameter, thick-meaty, first spherical, later convex-prostrate, with a thin ribbed edge, sticky, shiny, bright or orange-red, fading with age to yellow or pale red, with numerous flaky white or yellowish warts or scales - remnants of a common veil, very rarely without them. The pulp of the mushroom red is soft, thick, white, under the skin of the cap light orange, sweet taste, with a pleasant smell. The plates are loose, frequent, wide, white, slightly yellowish in old mushrooms. Spore powder is white, spores 9 × 6.5 microns, ellipsoidal, smooth. Leg up to 20 cm long, up to 3.5 cm thick, cylindrical, with a tuberous thickening at the base, initially solid, dense, later hollow, smooth, white, with a wide, filmy white, on the edge with a yellow, gently hanging ring and a vagina adherent to the stem in several concentric rows of white or yellowish rims - warts.

Locations of the red mushroom mushroom

Amanita red is found almost throughout the territory of Russia. It grows in coniferous, mixed and deciduous, especially birch forests, everywhere, alone and in small groups, often and abundantly, from June to autumn frosts. It grows on acidic soils.

Collecting and harvesting red mushroom

For the purpose of treatment, only red mushroom caps are used. Not to be confused with the Royal Amanita ( Amanita regalis), which is different darker, red-brown hat.
Mushrooms harvested for the future, drying stringing on a string.

The chemical composition of the red mushroom

The fruit body of the fungus contains a number of toxic compounds, some of which have a psychotropic effect and an orange-red pigment muscarfuin.
Ibotenic acid  - in the process of drying it is decarboxylated into muscimol. Ibotenic acid and its metabolite - muscimol well penetrate the hemato-encephalic barrier
  (BBB) ​​and act as psychotomimetics. Ibotenic acid is neurotoxic and causes brain cell death.
Mustsimol  - the main psychoactive substance. It has a sedative-hypnotic, dissociative effect.
The assessment of muscimol content in the Amanita muscaria sample of autumn growth with a cap with a diameter of 10-15 cm and a weight of 60-70 g showed a muscimol content of 0.05%.
Muscarin, acting like acetylcholine, stimulates M-cholinergic receptors, causing vasodilation and a decrease in cardiac output, and with a large enough intake in the body can cause a characteristic poisoning pattern, including symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, drooling, increased sweating, decreased blood pressure. Has the ability to numb.
Muscazon  - The decomposition product of ibotenic acid under the influence of ultraviolet radiation (sunlight). The initial content in the fruit body is small. In comparison with other active components of the Amanita has a slight psychoactive effect.
Muscarufin  - orange-red pigment, antibiotic. In a small amount, muscarfuin enhances the activity of the endocrine glands and raises the overall tone of the body, it has an antitumor effect. Used in homeopathic practice.

These toxins in the fungus are unevenly distributed. A large number of them found in the cap of the fungus, moderate - the base of the leg, and the smallest content recorded in the leg. As reported in the study, spring and summer mushrooms contain 10 times more ibotenic acid and muscimol than in the fall.

Unlike green flowering plants, ferns, mosses and algae, mushrooms do not have chlorophyll, they are not able to absorb carbon dioxide from the air, therefore they feed on ready-made organic compounds.

Pharmacological properties of the red mushroom

Thanks to muscarufine, the fly agaric has antibiotic, antitumor, narcotic and intoxicating effects. In France, they prepare a sleeping pill out of the mushroom. The fly agaric has a strong insecticidal effect, i.e. the property of killing insects, especially flies and bedbugs.
In folk medicine, the red fly agaric is used to treat cancer and diseases of the joints, as an immunostimulating, anthelmintic and anti-cough drug. However, scientific evidence on the effectiveness of such use to date is not enough.

Application of Amanita Reds Medicine

Amanita - a highly effective drug. It helps against all cancers: cancer, leukemia, radiation ulcers, etc .; from dermatitis.
With the help of amanita, other diseases can be treated:
• diseases of the spinal cord, epilepsy, chorea, tics, alcoholic delirium, psychosis during infectious diseases with strong arousal, incoherent talkativeness;
•, dull in the frontal part, exciting nasal bones, one-sided headache, feeling of icy cold in the head, high sensitivity of the scalp, dizziness;
• behavior with inadequate laughter, raised tones in the voice, singing, a desire to embrace interlocutors, delusional remarks with a reluctance to answer asked questions;
• convulsions of different origin, paralysis, multiple sclerosis;
• angina with stitching and burning pains in the heart, radiating to the left hand, heart palpitations, arrhythmia;
• whitening of the fingers, ears and nose, followed by hyperemia, angioneurosis of the extremities;
• increased drooling, bitter saliva;
• ulceration of the oral mucosa, tongue;
• bad breath, bouts of severe hunger, mostly in the evenings;
• burping with air and food, nausea, vomiting immediately after eating;
• heaviness and crampy pain in the stomach, bloating, gas with garlic odor;
• with extremely difficult stool withdrawal, dysentery-like, especially in children;
• burning in the anus, scanty urine mixed with viscous mucus, typhoid fever;
• itching and irritation in the nose, sneezing with liquid discharge from the nose, heightened sense of smell, nosebleeds;
• spastic, agonizing cough, mostly when the patient is nervous or as soon as he falls asleep, with a slight sputum discharge;
• hemoptysis, short, labored breathing with the need to inhale deeply, copious sweat in the chest area at night, laryngotracheitis, pulmonary tuberculosis;
• diabetes mellitus;
• external tumors, neglected purulent wounds, skin tuberculosis, eczema, neurodermatitis, diathesis;
• redness, swelling, burning, itching of the skin, severely itchy rash on the skin;
• redness and cracking of the lips, vesicles on the upper lip;
• feeling of fatigue in the neck, back, especially when sitting and lying, pain in the back muscles, joint damage of the left arm and right leg and vice versa, crackle in the joints, rheumatism, sciatica, sciatica, fatigue, mental and physical fatigue, feeling of weakness in the limbs while maintaining sufficient strength in them, trembling of the limbs, cramps in the thumbs;
• numbness, sensation of current, icy needles, crawling, chills, increased sensitivity to cold in the limbs, painful chilliness;
• increased libido with lethargy of the penis, weakness and after sexual intercourse, impotence, premature, very painful menstruation with a sensation of prolapse of the uterus, strong pressure on the bottom, irritating the skin whitening, sexual arousal, itching and burning in the nipples, itching and irritation of the genital organs, painful menstruation, severe menopause;
• eye diseases, opacities of the vitreous body and lens, dark flies before eyes, itching, burning, lowering of vision, great sensitivity of eyelids to touch, blepharospasm (seizure of eyelids), blepharitis (inflammation of eyelids), conjunctivitis, myopia (myopia), diplopia (double vision), twitching of the eyelids and eyeballs, asthenopia (rapid eye fatigue during visual work), cataracts;
• pain in the ears, stitching pains along the Eustachian tubes, ipermia and swelling of the auricles as during foreshadowing, itching in the ears.

Red Amanita Medicines

Amanita Tincture: cut 3-4 mushroom caps, stand for 2 days in a cool place (for example, in the refrigerator), chop finely, put in a jar and fill with vodka so that the liquid protrudes above the mushrooms by the thickness of a finger, and put the can in the refrigerator. After 2 weeks, the tincture should be filtered and regularly rubbed into the sore spots in the treatment of radiculitis, osteochondrosis, diseases of the joints.

Amanita Tincture (Homeopathy): put in a row 29 clean boiled bottles (bubbles), in each of which pour 10 ml of 30% alcohol (or high-quality vodka). In the 1st bottle add 2 drops of fresh mushroom juice, cork and shake vigorously 30 times. Then take 2 drops of this solution from this bottle and transfer it to the 2nd bottle, shake 30 times. 2 drops of the solution from the 2nd bottle to transfer to the 3rd and so on. From the prepared solution in the last, 29th bottle, take 20 drops and add them to the 30th bottle, where 100 ml of alcohol is poured, shake 30 times. Tincture is ready. Store in a cool dark place for an unlimited time. Take 5 drops of tincture with 50 ml of cold boiled water 1-2 times a day, fasting in the morning and at night. When a positive effect is achieved, the medication should be taken more rarely - once a week, then, judging by the patient's well-being, 1 dose per month.

Ointment made from mushroom mushroom, is a highly effective tool for radiation injuries of the skin and mucous membranes. Improvement comes after 6-10 procedures. Amanita preparations have also proven their worth in the treatment of allergic skin lesions.

Contraindications of the use of red mushroom

The fly agaric is a very poisonous mushroom, but deaths from poisoning are rare, including because the red fly agaric is easily distinguished from all edible mushrooms. The lethal dose of poison for humans is contained in 3-4 toadstools (according to other sources, a theoretically calculated dose of about 15 caps). It is necessary to strictly observe the dosage, wash hands well after using rubbing, keep the medicine out of the reach of children. It is not recommended to treat children with amanita preparations due to the increased risk of poisoning.

Little known and difficult to distinguish from edible fungi are the panther mushroom mushroom, the stinky fly agaric and the porphyry mushroom are deadly dangerous - they can be confused with champignons and russules (white, grayish and greenish).

The toxic and psychoactive substances of the Amanita are well dissolved in hot water, and the use of mushrooms boiled in several waters leads to less severe poisoning.
Signs of amanita poisoning: severe nervous excitement, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, increased sweating, salivation, shortness of breath, cyanosis, constriction of the pupils, delusions, hallucinations, convulsions, loss of consciousness.
Treatment of mushroom poisoning The following is true: gastric lavage through a probe, saline orally, forced diuresis, atropine 1-2 ml of a 0.1% aqueous solution intravenously until the symptoms of poisoning disappear.
Emergency first aid in case of poisoning by toadstools:
- Give the patient to drink 0.5-1 liters of water and induce vomiting, by putting fingers in his mouth and irritating the root of the tongue. So do this several times until the stomach is completely cleansed of food debris, i.e. to clean water;
- give the patient a saline drink - 30 g of magnesium sulphate per 0.5 glass of water;
- in the absence of a laxative, make a patient an enema with 1 cup of warm water, in which it is desirable to add to enhance the effect of 1 tsp. soap shavings from household or baby soap;
- give the patient 15 drops of cranin tincture, or 2 tablets from among any of the belladonna preparations available in the first-aid kit (bicarbon, besalol, bellalgin, bellatominal, belloid, stomach tablets with belladonna extract). More than the specified number of drops and tablets can not be taken!
Recovery usually occurs in 1-2 days.

Use of Amanita Reds Housekeeping

In the hollows of the old mushroom caps, sometimes rain moisture accumulates. Insects drink these drops and die. This property of the red mushroom has long been used by people as a means of combating flies and other harmful insects, from which it got its name. To destroy the flies, the fly agaric is cut into small pieces, poured with water or milk and put in plates on the windows (you can use the broth of the mushroom). Plates of blotting paper should be put in the plates so that the paper protrudes beyond the edges of the plate and flies sit on it. For the destruction of bedbugs smear the gap with fresh juice or gruel of boiled fly agarics.

An interesting fact is that, contrary to popular belief, flies die not because of the effects of the substances contained in the mushroom, but for a different reason. In the forest, the hat of an adult Amanita becomes concave, and rainwater collects in it. The Amanita's alkaloids dissolve well in this water, and the flies, after drinking this water, after a few minutes, go to sleep and simply drown in water. The same thing happens when a fly agaric is put in a saucer with water in the room. If the asleep fly is immediately shifted to a dry surface, then, after 10-12 hours, it wakes up and flies away.

Many animals, such as bears, deer, moose and squirrels, eat the toadstools. However, the value of fly agarics for animals has not yet been studied.
In Nagano prefecture (Japan), salted and pickled toadstools are used as food.
In the late 19th century, the American nerd Frederick Vernon Coville described a mushroom sauce for steak, where the toadstools are first boiled in water and then soaked in vinegar. This recipe was told to him by an African American mushroom seller in Washington, DC.

A bit of history

In Chukotka, archaeologists have found images of humanoid toadstools found among rock paintings. This is due to the habitual practice among shamans during religious ceremonies before shouting to eat toadstools, which caused them to hallucinate and lead them to a special excited state with a surge of mental and physical strength.
The same qualities of amanitas were used by the Mayan and Aztec Indians to perform their ritual rituals. The Vikings, according to the chronicles, also ate amanita mushrooms before the battle, were very excited and rushed fearlessly into battle. The invincible warriors among them were berserks (“obeeruks”): naked to the waist, not feeling pain, in the heat of battle they smashed the enemies with swords squeezed in both hands. Berserkers ate before the battle slices of mushroom or drank a drink from it. Under the influence of the substances contained in the mushroom, they fell into a state of furious rage, did not feel the blows of weapons and wounds, and walked, sweeping away everything in their path, terrorizing their opponents.

Used Books

1. Maznev N.I. Encyclopedia of medicinal plants. 3rd ed. - M .: Martin, 2004
2. Denis R. Benjamin Mushrooms: poisons and panaceas — a handbook for naturalists, mycologists and physicians. - W.H. Freeman & Company, 1995. - p. 309. - 422 p. - ISBN 0-7167-2600-9.
3. Coville, F. V. 1898. Observations on Recent Cases of Mushroom Poisoning in the District of Columbia. United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Botany. U.S. Government Printing office, Washington, D.C.
4. Phipps, A. G .; Bennett, B.C .; Downum, K. R. (2000). "Japanese use of beni-tengu-dake (Amanita muscaria) and the use of traditional detoxification methods". Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
5. Benjamin DR. (1992). "Mushroom poisoning in infants and the Amanita pantherina / muscaria group". Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology 30 (1): 13–22.
6. Hoegberg LC; Larsen L; Sonne L; Bang J; Skanning pg; (2008). "Three cases of Amanita muscaria ingestion in children: two severe courses." Clinical Toxicology 46 (5): 407–8.
7. Benjamin, Mushrooms: poisons and panaceas, pp 303–04.
8. Satora, L .; Pach, D .; Butryn, B .; Hydzik, P .; Balicka-Slusarczyk, B. (June 2005). "Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) poisoning, case report and review" .Toxicon 45 (7): 941–3.
9. Bowden, K .; Drysdale, A.C. (March 1965). "A novel constituent of Amanita muscaria". Tetrahedron Lett. 6 (12): 727–8.

Photos and illustrations of the red mushroom

The fly agaric is a mushroom with the skin of a bright red color from the amanita family. The red skin of the cap of a mushroom is covered with a multitude of white spots. Under this bright shiny skin is white, yellowish or orange flesh with a sweet taste, no smell. The fungus has main and intermediate plates. The first ones are white or cream colored, very frequent and short. The leg of the fungus is in the form of a cylinder of white or yellow color. On the skin are wadded white spots, which have the ability to fall away. The leg ends with a white hanging ring. The lower tuberous part of the stem is connected to the Volv with white warts. The fungus multiplies with the help of white spore powder.

The fungus prefers to grow on acidic soil, in the mountains, on the forest edges, on birch and spruce. It can be found anywhere in Russia, it can grow alone, or maybe in small groups.

Amanita is a poisonous fungus! Therefore, it is necessary to apply it for medicinal purposes carefully and without haste.

Useful properties of the mushroom

Although the fly agaric is a poisonous mushroom, it still has beneficial properties, such as pain reliever, stimulant, pain-relieving and anti-cancer. It is also used as an antispasmodic and pain-relieving agent for tumors, rheumatism, and nervous tension.

Preparations of amanita used for menopause, tuberculosis, spasms in the intestine and bladder. Amanita restores energy in the body and rejuvenates the entire body as a whole.

Application of amanita

Amanita recently began to use for the preparation of many drugs. However, you can take them inside only under the supervision of a physician.

But outwardly fly agaric used with ease, as it gives a good therapeutic effect. For example, the fly agaric has a very strong wound-healing property. You can take fresh toadstools, tear off only the caps from them, stretch them and with the help of gauze pint the ready mass to the wound. After a couple of hours, the wound on the skin will begin to heal.

Amanita used in the treatment of inappropriate behavior, sclerosis and paralysis. This fungus helps get rid of stomach heaviness, gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea. Amanita used for impotence, painful menstruation, sexual arousal and irritation of the genital organs.

Oddly enough, but the fly agaric is used for front sight, lowering of vision, conjunctivitis, inflammation of the eyelids, myopia and cataracts. Pain in the ears, itching in them and swelling of the auricles can also be cured with the help of preparations from the mushroom.

In folk medicine, amanita has found its use in toothache, belching, increased salivation, prickly pain in the heart and bad.

Tincture of mushroom for compresses, dressings and rubbing.For its preparation, you need to take the mushrooms and chop them, then leave the chopped mushrooms in a cool place for three days. Next, take a glass jar and put the mushrooms in it so that the jar was not filled to the top. After that, you need to take vodka and pour mushrooms so that they are completely in vodka. Vodka should be 1 cm above the mushrooms. Having closed the jar, it is left in a dark place for 2 weeks. Not only tincture, but also mush gruel has a therapeutic effect. The tincture is stored for no more than three years, since after this period it loses its healing properties.

Ointment of amanita with radiculitis and arthritis.It is prepared as follows: you need to take fresh toadstools and grind them with an equal amount of sour cream. In the evening, apply the finished ointment on the sore spot, cover with film and wrap over night. Early in the morning, remove the bandage, and wash the sore spot with warm soapy water. You can store this ointment in a ceramic or glass container, but in no case do not store this medicine in a metal container.

This mushroom juice for compresses.Take fresh mushrooms and grind them. Next, take a glass jar and fill it with mushrooms in a crushed form. Then close the jar, but not tight! And leave for a month in a dark place. During this time, the mushrooms will give the juice, which will accumulate in the bottom of the jar. Mushrooms are thrown out of the jar, but the juice that is released and present is used for medicinal purposes.

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Poisoning Amanita

Do not forget that the mushroom contains toxic substances, which when ingested in large quantities can lead to poisoning. Signs of poisoning with a fly agaric are the following: nausea, rapid heartbeat, dilated pupils and blurred vision. Hallucinations, memory loss, and drowsiness may occur. Spasms, coma, delirium - these are also symptoms of amanita poisoning.

In case of poisoning, it is necessary to drink warm salty water or tickle the palate. In severe poisoning, only washing the stomach with the help of a doctor will help.

Contraindications to the use of amanita

We must always remember that the fly agaric is a poisonous mushroom, and therefore it is necessary not only to use drugs from it in strict compliance with the dosages, but also to keep them properly and away from children. When the first signs of poisoning appear, such as nausea or vomiting, measures should be taken immediately, because slowness and the absence of measures can be fatal.