Amanita muscaria

Useful properties, application and symptoms of poisoning with Amanita

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Botanical characteristics of mushroom

Amanita is a fungus with the skin bright red color of the family Mukhomorov. The red skin of a mushroom cap covered with many white spots. Under this bright shiny skin is white, yellowish or orange flesh with a sweet taste, odorless. Mushroom with basic and intermediate plate. The first of them white or cream color, very frequent and short. Stipe – in the form of a cylinder of white or yellow. The skins are cotton with white spots, which have the ability to fall away. Leg ends hangs a white ring. The lower tuberous part of the legs are connected by a Volvo with white warts. The fungus proliferates by using a white spore powder.

The fungus prefers to grow in acidic soil, mountains, edges of forests, on birch and spruce. It is found in any place of Russia, can grow singly, maybe in small groups.

The fly agaric is a poisonous mushroom! Therefore, to use it for medicinal purposes should be carefully and slowly.

The beneficial properties of the mushroom

Although the fly agaric is a poisonous mushroom, it still has useful properties, such as analgesic, stimulant, analgesic and anticancer. Also it is used as antispasmodic and debilitating pain remedies for tumors, rheumatism, nervous tension.

Preparations of mushroom used in menopause, tuberculosis, neurosis, spasms in the intestines and the bladder. The mushroom restores energy in the body and rejuvenates the whole body.

The use of fly agaric

The mushroom in the last period were used for the preparation of many medicines. However, taking them inside only under supervision of a physician.

But the mushroom topically applied with ease, as it gives a good therapeutic effect. For example, the fly agaric has a very strong healing property. You can take fresh mushrooms, tear them only hats, mash them with a gauze bandage the prepared mixture to the wound. After a few hours the wound on the skin begins to heal.

Amanita is used in the treatment of inappropriate behavior, multiple sclerosis and paralysis. This fungus helps to get rid of heaviness in the stomach, gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea. The mushroom is used to treat impotence, painful menstruation, sexual arousal and stimulation of sexual organs.

No matter howstrange, but Amanita is used in the flies in the eyes, poor vision, conjunctivitis, inflammation of the eyelids, myopia and cataract. Ear pain, itching and swelling of the ears can also be treated with preparations of mushroom.

In folk medicine, the mushroom found its use in dental pain, belching, excessive salivation, prickly pain in the heart and bad breath.

Tincture of a fly agaric for compresses, bandages 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 place in it the mushrooms so that the Bank was not filled to the top. Afterwards, take the vodka and pour the mushrooms, so they were completely in the vodka. Vodka should be 1 cm above the mushrooms. Closing the jar, leave it in a dark place for 2 weeks. Medical action is not only the tincture, but the mush of mushrooms. Tincture is stored not more than three years, as after this period it loses its medicinal properties.

The cream of mushroom with sciatica and arthritis. It is prepared in the following manner: take fresh mushrooms and grind them with an equal amount of sour cream. In the evening apply the prepared ointment on the sore spot, cover with foil and wrap it up for the night. Early in the morning, remove the bandage and the sore spot washed with warm, soapy water. Store this ointment in a ceramic or glass containers , but in no case do not store this medicine in a metal container.

Present the mushroom juice for compresses. Take fresh mushrooms and grind them. Next, take a glass jar and fill it with mushrooms in powdered form. Then close the jar but not sealed! And leave for a month in a dark place. During this time the mushrooms will give the juice that will accumulate in the bottom of the container. Mushrooms from the jar thrown away, but the separated present and the juice is used for medicinal purposes.

Poisoning with Amanita

Don't forget that the mushroom contain toxic substances that, when ingested in large quantity can cause poisoning. Signs of mushroom poisoning are: nausea, palpitations, vomiting, dilated pupils and blurred vision. May appear hallucinations, loss of memory and drowsiness. Convulsions, coma, delirium – is also symptoms of poisoning Amanita.

In case of poisoning you should drink warm salt water or tickle the sky. In severe poisoning will only gastric lavage with the aid of a physician.

Contraindications to the use of the fly agaric

We must always remember that the agaric is a poisonous mushroom, and so you need not only to use products from his strict adherence to the dosages, but also to store them properly and away from children. At the first signs of poisoning such as nausea or vomiting, you must immediately take action, because the slowness and lack of action can lead to death.