Amanita Muscaria Magical Mushrooms as Medicine Fly Agaric Toadstool

With its stark warning colours Amanita muscarias red and white flecks help identify this magical mushroom as a member of a deadly family of mushrooms. Amanita muscaria’s often commonly referred to as fly agaric in European countries. The mushroom remains highly significant in terms of its medical, as well as magical properties. This magical mushroom grows throughout Europe, Russia and America. Fly agaric refers to its common name as it’s often soaked in milk followed with its placement at windows to keep flies at bay. Amanita muscaria symbolism appears in many forms of literature as well as modern media. This magical mushroom makes a distinctive appearance in many forms of children’s literature, folk stories, and computer games such as the Mario Brothers series. Even Santa Claus and his magical flying reindeer have an association with this prestigious magical mushroom.

Amanita Muscaria belongs to a potent family named the Amanita family of mushrooms. The Amanita family features such infamous members as the highly deadly Death Cap (Amanita phalloides) and the Destroying Angel (Amanita bisporigera) amongst a host of others.

The muscaria mushroom remains very distinctive, often found in the autumnal season. Amanita muscaria’s location usually locates it under birch trees which begin to stir this mushrooms magical mushroom association within Celtic mythology. The Birch tree has associates with fertility, and woodland spirits. Amanita muscaria features clearly visible red colouring with red spots, or warts, covering the top of the mushroom. Underneath the gills indicate a pale white colouration.

Amanita muscaria has an alternative health application, giving its inclusion into the magical mushrooms arena of interest. Fly agaric remains closely linked with the neurological functioning of the human body in alternative medicine. Amanita muscaria as a mushroom has uses in treating varying nervous disorders. These disorders originate within a neurological capacity and include such illnesses as dementia, continual dizziness, and Parkinson’s disease. Other uses for this magical mushroom as an alternative medicine has enabled sufferers from nervous tics, depression and epilepsy to feel significant less adverse symptoms with the use of the fly agaric as a medicine.. The mushroom primarily focuses on cerebral treatments. This revels the mushroom has a chemical ability to effect a persons neurotic state of wellbeing.

Homeopathy also uses the Amanita muscaria within its field of treatment. Fly agaric dilutions become utilised for problems with the female menopause as well as subduing over-excitability, bladder and intestinal cramps of the human body.

The magical mushrooms main chemical components within the fly agaric remains the key to this mushrooms significant alternative health benefits. Ibotenic acid and muscimol (a psychoactive alkaloid) exists as the two active medicinal ingredients found within the Amanita muscaria fly agaric mushroom.

There remain various reports throughout modern, as well as ancient cultures, about how the Amanita muscaria mushroom remains widely used in cross-cultural Shamanic rituals. Scriptures of use of the fly agaric remains recorded in Buddhist, Native American, Japanese, Siberian, ancient Greek, and proto-Hindi manuscripts throughout the world as a whole across differing times and social groups. The mushroom has a potential hallucinogenic property while some consider the fly agaric highly poisonous in its natural state.

Reactions to the Amanita muscaria mushroom appear to differ from person-to-person. Each fly agaric, despite its magical mushroom status, contains varying amounts of chemical which may cause adverse liver damage and possibly death.

Shamans in Siberia process fly agaric as part of a shamanistic ritual. However they have a way of synthesizing the Fly agarics natural poisons. The method involves feeding the Amanita muscaria magical mushrooms to reindeer and then collecting the animal’s urine. The reindeer’s able to naturally negate the fly agarics poisons without harm. The Reindeer’s urine, safe from poisons, gets drunk by shamans as part of their ritualistic event.

What’s also interesting about the Amanita muscaria mushroom remains clearly seen through the potency of the chemicals involved after it’s already drunk. The chemicals within Amanita muscaria remain present even after initial processing through the human body. This allows the shamans of Siberia to collect their own urine in a communual pot for shared drinking. Its potency passes through the human body allowing its use again and again. Its estimated that it pass through the human body ten times without losing its chemical properties or potency.

The musroom sometimes gets mispronounces as Amanite, when in fact it is Amanita!