Drying mushrooms

Place the dried mushrooms in a blender and grind into a powder. 

Bursterberger Explosives, Dynamite-type expls claimed not to exude, even at 100°, and not to freeze even at minus 14°, were prepd by impregnating spongy substances, such as cellulose, rotten wood or dried mushrooms with ohondrin or glycocol(glycine) and then adding 26 to 60% NG Ref Daniel(1902), 89... 

Sixteenth-century Central American Indians, according to the naturalist Francisco Hernandez, called them Teomnacatl, possibly translated as God s flesh or, simply, sacred mushroom. Albert Hofmann, the scientist credited with the inadvertent discovery of LSD when investigating its effects, is also credited with isolating the active ingredient of this mushroom in 1958. He claimed to have ingested 32 dried mushrooms, probably 10 times the usual dose taken today, to determine their... 

The most common way to access psilocybin is by eating Psilocybe mushrooms. Fresh Psilocybe mushrooms contain 0.03 to 1.3% psilocybin by weight. Dried mushrooms, which can shrink by 90-95%, contain about ten times the amount of psilocybin per weight after the... 

The United Nations standard on psilocybin allows for possession of fresh mushrooms, but not dried mushrooms. Most countries that are members of the United... 

Nations follow this standard. However, Japan allows dried mushrooms to be sold legally. 

After a search for teonandcatl in specimens of Mexican mushrooms, a prestigious American botanist, Dr. William E. Safford, concluded that there simply were none. He felt that the Spanish chroniclers must have confused them with dried peyote. In a talk entitled "Identification of teonanacatl of the Aztecs with the narcotic cactus Lophophora williamsii and an account of its ceremonial use in ancient and modern times, Safford—who was known for lengthy titles—declared that the dried mescal button resembled "a dried mushroom so remarkably that, at first glance, it will even deceive a mycologist He hypothesized that the Indians may have deliberately misled the Spanish in order to protect their use of peyote. 

Reports on Siberian tribesmen suggest that they usually take three— one large and two small sun-dried mushrooms, often with reindeer milk or bogberry juice (similar to blueberry juice). However, the Church of the Tree of Life literature on Fly Agaric cautions potential users that "Siberian tribesmen have a far more robust constitution than most of us. It suggests that no one take any more than a single, modest-sized mushroom—at least until its effects are clearly demonstrated. 

Other reports of presumably psilocybin varieties from northern Africa occasionally surface. Reports of a tamu (mushroom of knowledge) from the Ivory Coast are teasing but not sufficiently documented. The Italian researcher Giorgio Samorini noted that there are mushroom-based churches in southern Nigeria. Over the years, I have heard similar reports of Christian churches from Mexico, Brazil, and Russia that feature crosses whose centerpieces contain mysterious, encapsulate dried mushrooms of unknown identities and origins. 

Less than an hour after ingesting 2.5 grams of dried mushrooms, I am in a state of total meltdown, consumed by the fire of purification. I am frightened, but willing to face the fire. The I does not want to die or give up control, so this purification has a deep type of pain that penetrates down to my being. Yet I know it is the resistance to the purification, not the purification itself, that is so painful. 

Alkaloid Content of Dried Mushrooms from a Location in the Dubener Marshlands of Eastern Germany (Selected Results)... 

Concentrations of Psilocybin and its Derivatives in Psilocybe bohemica (% of Dried Mushrooms)... 

In spite of the intense blue staining reaction, there is very little or no psilocin in mushrooms of the European Psilocybe cyanescens complex. By chemical-taxonomic standards, European collections are very different from Psilocybe cyanescens samples collected in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The latter are known to contain up to 1 % psilocin (dried mushrooms) as well as an equally high level of psilocybin (for a total alkaloid level of 2 %),... 

In this context, the following account is of interest it details the experience of a mycologist who took 2. 4 g of dried mushrooms in the course of a test experiment ... 

For unknown reasons, Kreisel described all Pluteus species as "non-poisonous" in his 1987 handbook of mushrooms, despite the fact that psilocybin (0.35 % of dried mushrooms) had already been discovered in samples of this species in 1981 (North America) and 1984 (Norway). The alkaloid was also found in mushrooms from Holland, Finland, Sweden and France. The latter tests, however, were limited to very few fruiting bodies in each case. 

Whereas Stijve found an average of 0.25 % of psilocybin in dried mushrooms from 20 samples collected in Switzerland from 1984 to 1986, my own analyses of non-bluing ( ) mushrooms collected in Thuringen, Germany in 1986 yielded much higher alkaloid concentrations ... 

Other rare Pluteus species with bluish or violet discolorations are mentioned in the literature, such as a Pluteus cyanopus from Europe. However, so far, very small amounts of psilocybin (0.035% of dried mushrooms) have been found only in Pluteus nigroviridis Babos, an extremely rare species from Hungary. 

The average age of the mushroom collectors was between 15 and 19 years. Reports mostly came in during September and October of each year, which corresponds to the mushroom s fruiting period. Cases that were reported during other months of the year had been caused by ingestion of dried mushroom material. 

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