Medicinal Mushrooms: The Complete Guide to Grow Psilocybin Mushrooms and Medicinal Properties: Mushrooms, #1

By Elia Friedenthal

MUSHROOMS THAT ACT AS TURBO-SHOTS FOR YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

THE MAGIC OF MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS

 

Does the thought of medicinal mushrooms scare you off? Take a deep breath and stay with us. Yes, we're going to tell you to put mushrooms in your coffee (among other things). But there's a good reason for this, we swear.

Medicinal mushrooms have been used in Eastern medicine for thousands of years and have gained even more popularity as of late. Destined to be taken as powders (they're never meant to be eaten raw or whole), you can find these fungi in all different forms, including ultra-trendy Los Angeles lattes. One of the easiest ways to get your mushroom fix, though? Simply add a spoonful to whatever's on the menu — be it your morning smoothie, veggie stir-fry, or a cup of java.

The list of health benefits medicinal mushrooms provide is lengthy (think: brain booster, hormone helper, an antioxidant powerhouse).

 

BUT EACH MUSHROOM IS UNIQUE AND PROVIDES ITS OWN DISTINCT HEALTH ADVANTAGES.

Note that these shrooms aren't a cure-all. In fact, shroom studies are still new to Western medicine, and solid evidence for humans still needs far more research. So, think of them more like sidekicks for your immune system or mini-vaccines against stress, inflammation, and cancer. If you want to get in tune with the power of mushrooms, let's get to know the top and what makes them so great.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elia Friedenthal
• Release date: Feb 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393934004

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MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS

The COMPLETE GUIDE to Grow Psilocybin Mushrooms and Medicinal Properties

By ELIA FRIEDENTHAL

© Copyright 2021 by ELIA FRIEDENTHAL

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Growing psilocybin mushrooms for consumption is a potentially illegal activity, and we do not encourage or condone this activity where it is against the law. However, we accept that people will grow psilocybin mushrooms, and believe that offering responsible harm reduction information is imperative to keeping people safe. For that reason, this guide is designed to ensure the safety of those who decide to grow psilocybin mushrooms.

Contents

The 25 Most Common Species of Mushrooms Containing Psilocybin

Hallucinogenic mushrooms

STEP 1: LOCATE, and IDENTIFY THE FUNGUS: COLLECTING, and GERMINATING SPORES

STEP 2: GROW STOCK INOCULA

STEP 3: GROWING ON STERILIZED RYE

STEP 4: CASING, and RECASING

STEP 5: HARVESTING, PRESERVING, and DOSAGE

A Detailed Review of The History of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

The 6 Types of Hallucination You Can Experience

MAGIC MUSHROOMS AND THE ROOTS OF RELIGION

How to Prepare for A Safe Psychedelic Trip?

Mushrooms in History and Legend

Psilocybin Promotes the Growth of New Brain Cells

Psilocybin creates a hyper-connected brain

Psilocybin: Myths and Realities About the Therapeutic Virtues

Brief update on 5-HT2A serotonin receptors

Effects on cerebral physiology and hypothetical neural bases of psychotropic action

The Indissoluble Intertwining That Has Always Existed Between Magic Mushrooms and Humanity

Hallucinogenic mushrooms and depression

Hallucinogenic mushrooms and addiction treatment

Negative effects of hallucinogenic mushrooms

Hunting for Magic Mushrooms: A Practical Guide

How to Identify Different Types of Magic Mushrooms

The life cycle of mushrooms

The nitrogen cycle

The Carbon Cycle

How they live and how they reproduce

HOW MUSHROOMS FEED

Nutrition of Mushrooms

Most Famous Psilocybin Mushrooms

How to Identify Different Types of Magic Mushrooms?

Psilocybin and Psilocin: Let's Discover Their Role

4 Main Components of Magic Mushrooms

The Best and Worst Things That Can Happen to You When You Try Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

Psilocybin and Psilocin: Psychedelic Effects and Harm

List of mushrooms containing psilocybin

Can Magic Mushrooms Make You More Creative?

An Amazing Natural Treatment for Depression

5 Amazing Benefits of Magic Mushrooms

Mycotoxicology: Psilocybin syndrome (dyslectic)

The 25 Most Common Species of Mushrooms Containing Psilocybin

MAGIC MUSHROOMS PLAYED an important role in human evolution. They have been used in ceremonies by numerous indigenous peoples around the world. Here is a list of the 25 most common species of mushrooms containing psilocybin in nature. Psilocybin-containing mushrooms are found in many countries around the world. Archaeological excavations often transmit samples of magic mushrooms, or references to them. Commentators like the late Terence McKenna advanced the hypothesis that early hominids who took magic mushrooms were inspired to create articulated languages and religion, which led to the evolution of the civil complex.

Correct identification is important when dealing with fungi, there are some toxic species that resemble various magic mushrooms. Reactions can range from slight nausea or anaphylactic shock or, in exceptional cases, death. You must be extremely cautious and confident before ingesting a fungus that is not purchased and checked by experts. The fungus thrives under certain specific conditions; temperature, humidity, soil, and season of the year, each is an important factor. Knowing the life cycle of mushrooms is also essential. The fruiting body usually appears only for a few months, and in some cases only once every certain number of years.

25 MAGIC MUSHROOMS THAT GROW SPONTANEOUSLY

1)  Pluteus salicinus

Six species of Pluteus are known to contain psilocybin:

Pluteus cyanopus

Pluteus glaucus

Pluteus nigroviridis

Pluteus villosus

Pluteus brunneidiscus

Pluteus phaeocyanopus

They grow in the British Isles, Northern Europe, and the continental part of the USA.

How to recognize it: 3-7mm wide cap, which becomes convex with maturation. It has a greenish gray or salmon pink color. Scaly inside, smooth on the edges of the cap. The stem is approximately 40-100mm, and 2-6mm wide, and white, or gray-green, sometimes tending to blue. The flesh takes on a blue color when rubbed, especially at the base. The gills are separated, pale or salmon-colored when mature and with spores.

Harvest: late summer and early autumn, depending on the rain.

Habitat: forests, especially alders (Alnus) and willows (Salix).

2)  Psylocibe antioquiensis:

Found in: Colombia, Vera Cruz and Jalisco in Mexico, and Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

Identification: cap with a minimum diameter of 5mm and a maximum of 30mm, usually 10-15mm. Globular, conic in the initial phase, then convex towards maturation. Orange-brown to ochre-orange color. The edges have parallel grooves. The stem ranges from 45-180mm in length, and a maximum of 3mm in thickness. The gills vary from a pale ochre in the purple, with white edges.

Season: Rainy period, from May to October.

Habitat: solitary or in small groups. Clay or sandy soil, especially in fields from pasture, moist to an altitude of 1000-1600 m asl.

3)  Psilocybe atlantis:

Distribution: Fulton County, north of Atlanta, Georgia

Identification: cap with a diameter of 25-45mm. Pale brown, dry looking, with darker streaks. Usually convex, but sometimes concave. Stem varying in length from 40-60mm and 2-4mm thick. The color – red-brownish to grayish-brown and covered with scales. It takes on a blue color if damaged. The gills are fine, brownish.

Season: August.

Habitat: in groups, in the ground.

4)  Australian psilocybe:

Distribution: South Australia.

Identification: cap of variable diameter between 16-30mm. Convex shape or bell-shaped, with part slightly darker in the centre. Shaded from beige-yellowish to pale ochre yellow on the edges; the outlines may have a blue tint. Stem 45-110mm long, and 2-3mm thick, uniformly rounded. Bulb-shaped base. It takes on a blue color when damaged. The gills are yellow or olive color tending to dark brown or purple with maturation.

Season: April and May

Habitat: pine plantations. Temperate and subtropical rainforests. It grows on the edges of roads and paths on humus and layers of leaves.

5)  Psilocybe aztecorum:

Distribution: mountains of central Mexico, Popocatépetl. Rio Frio and Paso de Cortés, Nevado de Toluca and La Malinche, Puebla and Tlaxcala.

Identification: cap diameter 5-30mm, usually 15 to 20mm. Convex or bulbous, it becomes streaked as it ripens. Yellow, dark or golden yellow, with slight shades of blue at the edges. Stems 55-75mm in length with a diameter of 3-5mm, thicker near the base; the browns range from light purple to dark purple-brown.

Season: August to October.

Habitat: it grows in the undergrowth, in groups ranging from 5-20 units; sometimes on rotting trunks, at a variable height between 3000-4200 meters.

6)  Psilocybe caerulescens

Distribution: Central and South America and Alabama.

Identification: cap that varies between 2.5-9mm; black or dark green. Conical, before maturity, and with an inward curved edge; with maturation they flatten, expand and change color. The stalk is from 35-100mm with a diameter between 3-5mm. The color is cream and light cinnamon tending to darker browns with maturation, they are hollow inside and covered with fibrous hairs. The veil falls off in older specimens.

Season: late spring, summer.

Habitat: rarely are specimens solitary, most commonly in dense groups in earth not covered in grass.

7)  Psilocybe cubensis

Distribution: Central and South America, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, Fiji, India, Philippines, Australia.

Identification: cap can vary significantly, from 15-85mm, most commonly between 25-70mm. The color is copper in the center, fading to a light yellow. The footprint is conical that goes towards  a bell shape and then expands in a standard profile. The stalk varies from 40-170mm, commonly from 70-120, and with a maximum of 18mm diameter; the color is whitish or cream which turns blue when damaged, hollow inside. The dark gray gills first, change and become purple or dark purple at maturity, the edges are white.

Season: different, with variation from one country to another.

Habitat: It rarely grows in solitary groups, usually in the dung of grazing animals; on roadsides.

8)  Psilocybe cyanescens

Distribution: North America. the Pacific Northeast. Europe.

Identification: the cap is 2-5cm in diameter, tapered and tending towards convex until it becomes flat with a wavy edge in maturity. The hazelnut color tends to turn caramel over time to become yellowish or ocher when dry. Blue or green if damaged or with maturity. Stems varying in length from 20-80mm, with a diameter of 2.5-6mm, white. The stems, if damaged, create blue or green patches. The buds are attached to the stem which become finer before they attach.

Season: September to December.

Habitat: scattered, or in groups of land rich in humus, the debris of the trees, and leaves; it thrives in shady undergrowth.

9)  Psilocybe cyanofibrillosa

Distribution: from Northern California to British Columbia and Canada.

Identification: cap with a diameter between 1-3.5cm; conical becoming convex in maturity, almost hemispherical. Hazelnut brown, with darker streaks; yellowish brown or grayish white when dry. The stalks vary from 30-70mm and 2-4mm in diameter, straight, white. They develop blue spots when damaged. The gills become thinner towards the stem; light gray in color, with maturation they become brown with white edges.

Season: September to December.

Habitat: specimens scattered or in large groups. Common in gardens and on the edges of rivers or floodplains.

10)  Psilocybe fimetaria

Distribution: United States and Canada, Scandinavia.

Identification: cap of variable diameter between 0.5-6cm, normally 1-2.5cm. Conical in youth to then become bell-shaped and finally convex, raised in the center when ripe. The color is light reddish brown, honey or dark ochre. When dry it becomes olive-yellow or yellowish brown. Blue if damaged. The stalks vary from 20-90mm, typically 40-65mm, and a diameter variable from 0,5-4mm, normally 2-3mm; the gills are purple brown with white edges.

Season: October to December.

Habitat: specimens scattered or in large groups. It grows well in the midst of horse manure and grassy and rich meadows.

11)  Psilocybe liniformans

Distribution: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia in Canada; Holland, Italy.

Identification: Cap; variable diameter between 1-2,5cm, large and convex with a raised center, brown to olive brown. When dry, light straw. The stems vary in length from 14-30mm, 1-2mm in diameter, from white to pale brown; blue patches if damaged. Straight, and swollen at the base. Dark chocolate to purple brown gills.

Season: from summer to autumn.

Habitat: grows individually or in bunches and groups, on horse dung or well-fertilized pastures and fields.

Dosage: moderately active species; 10-20 fresh specimens.

12)  Psilocybe semilanceata (Liberty cap)

Distribution: very cosmopolitan species, it is present in the United Kingdom and in most of Europe, the USA, and various other parts of the world.

Identification: 0.75-2cm cap, conical in shape, twice its width, with a pronounced nipple. Variable colors, from a rusty brown to pale yellow with streaked edges. Translucent edges when wet, and sticky to the touch. The stems vary in length from 40-100mm, pale brown or rust with a pronounced hook that can roll around a finger; blue grazes when handling them. Gills grouped, purplish brown; they become thinner before reaching the stem.

Season: August to November / December.

Habitat: They can grow solitary or in dense groups, on well fertilized pastures, high grass meadows, or fields where cattle and sheep have grazed. They do not grow directly on the dung. Along the Oregon coast they have been collected in scrub areas on golf courses.

Dosage: 20-40 fresh specimens, 1-2 grams dry. To get an idea, there are 30-40 servings in 500g fresh, or 30g dry. Those who take it for the first time should limit themselves to a maximum of 25 fresh specimens.

13)  Psilocybe silvatica

Distribution: Southern Oregon, British Columbia in Canada.

Identification: irregular conical cap of 0.8-2cm, with pronounced center. Dark and smooth tawny brown, drying up to a yellowish brown. Thin sticky film when wet, the stems vary in length from 20-80mm; dark brown, slightly swollen at the base. Gills varying in shapes and distances, from greyish brown to cinnamon, or darker brown with age, with white flecked edges.

Season: from the end of September to the end of December.

Habitat: dense populations, but they do not form carpets. It grows on wood chips, especially alder debris, and on decaying conifer substrates.

Dosage: 20-40g fresh, or 2-4g dry.

14)  Psilocybe pelliculosa

Distribution: Pacific Northwest USA, British Columbia in Canada, Finland.

Identification: 0.8-2cm sharp-cone cap, widening with age. The