I don't have any information about the benefits of mushrooms. Frankly, it hasn't caught my attention yet. Traditionally, I find mushrooms that grow in season in the forest and consume them. These are what I collected yesterday.
RE: Amanita Muscaria: The Magic Medicinal Mushroom
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Amanita Muscaria: The Magic Medicinal Mushroom
What kind of mushrooms are those? When you say you pick ones you find in the forest, do you eat them indiscriminately, or do you find out if they're edible first? We have some deadly ones around here in B.C., Canada. I think I also found some psylocibins one day, but didn't pick them...but someone else did before I went back for them. It's hard to find out how poisonous certain varieties are because a lot of websites label "psychedellic" or "psyhoactive" as poisonous.
To add to the confusion, some are both psychoactive and poisonous, some are so poisonous they're deadly, and some are only poisonous if uncooked. Fly agarics can be dried so that they're psychoactive but not poisonous, but they can also be cooked so that they're neither poisonous nor psychoactive, or what a lot of people call "edible"...I'd call them culinary mushrooms.
The local name for it is chintar. Here (Turkey - Aegean Region) it grows under coniferous pine trees when there is sufficient rainfall between October and February. They are found in the moisture under dry leaves. It is the species we have been eating for years. We haven't had any problems, but 5-6 people a year can lose their lives due to unconscious collecting. This is the information I got from local sources. It is not a problem for us, it is a species we have known for a long time.