[nickcarraway]

[Yaelle]

This was a thing in Switzerland. Families died every year. In every canton there was an office to visit with your foraged mushrooms to have them checked before you ate them. There was no excuse. But people are so stupid-proud they didn’t go.

[Pontiac]

We have a wide variety of mushrooms in our yard every year. I have always wanted to find out what they are and which are edible but have never found the time to find out.

Is reading from a Teleprompter a useful skill in the

When I was a teen I made some money babysitting. A couple of the kids I babysat at some wild mushrooms and had to make a trip to the hospital. Fortunately they did it on their parents’ time.

I don’t know what their treatment was or how sick they got but they survived to adulthood.

Needless to say I am in no hurry to sample the mushrooms in my yard.

[piasa]

Some mushrooms are notsofungi as others.

[W.]

And THAT’S why I get my ‘shrooms at the store...

[Windflier]

Courtesy ping.

[VTenigma]

Don’t eat the Amanitas.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The active ingredient in Milk Thistle is called silymarin, and its effects on the liver have been known for several decades. Silibinin, also known as silybin, is the major active constituent of silymarin.

It limits the uptake of deadly toxins by the liver, so it is not overwhelmed. It also has a protective effects against toxins as well. Last but not least, it speeds healing of liver damage around 30% faster than normal. It has been described as “the perfect liver medicine”.

Both milk thistle and silymarin have been sold OTC for decades. Unless you already have some liver damage (always ask doctor), the purpose of taking silymarin is prophylactic, preventative, prior to eating wild mushrooms or exposure to other known liver damaging chemicals.

Here’s the science about cirrhosis and liver cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21466434

[Bon mots]

A French doctor came up with a cure for mushroom poisoning years ago and not only does it work, he ate the deadliest mushroom three times on three separate occasions and cured himself.

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/09/16/French-finds-antidote-to-mushroom-poisoning/8295369460800/

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/07/garden/perils-of-mushroom-hunting-in-germany.html

With considerable ceremony, Dr. Bastien ate 70 grams of the mushrooms in Geneva last week and then said he would survive without monkeys or transfusions. His antidote was nifuroxazid acid and neomycine, two drugs obtainable in France without a prescription. After a few days in a hotel bed and some nausea, Dr. Bastien got up and drove home.

[martin_fierro]

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[Reddy]

“...... The sickest cohort ever seen.”

Off topic, but what is with the usage of “cohort” recently? I swear I have read it in a LOT of articles lately...