Tribal shamans use them in traditional medicine for anxiety and depressive illnesses.

There is an old Ozpolitic thread on it:

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1295890001

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 12:11am:


I'm not sure about that -
they look scary but
I heard it depends on the actual mushroom.
Most don't do anything if you fry one
up in butter and eat it.
Maybe cooking them in butter destroys the chemical in them?
Perhaps you have to eat many of them to get any effect?

All my friends are too scared to eat them -
they say that I could die but they look
like ordinary field mushrooms.
They were about 3 meters from a gum tree on a grass field.
Here's a close up.

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 3:38pm:


Actually it says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria



a tall red mushroom with a few white spots on the cap
Mature. The white spots may wash off with heavy rainfall.

Amanita muscaria poisoning has occurred in young children and in people who ingested the mushrooms for a hallucinogenic experience.[16][45][46] Occasionally it has been ingested in error, because immature button forms resemble puffballs.[47] The white spots sometimes wash away during heavy rain and the mushrooms then may appear to be the edible A. caesarea.[48]

Amanita muscaria contains several biologically active agents, at least one of which, muscimol, is known to be psychoactive. Ibotenic acid, a neurotoxin, serves as a prodrug to muscimol, with approximately 10–20% converting to muscimol after ingestion. An active dose in adults is approximately 6 mg muscimol or 30 to 60 mg ibotenic acid;[49][50] this is typically about the amount found in one cap of Amanita muscaria.[51] The amount and ratio of chemical compounds per mushroom varies widely from region to region and season to season, which can further confuse the issue. Spring and summer mushrooms have been reported to contain up to 10 times more ibotenic acid and muscimol than autumn fruitings.[45]

A fatal dose has been calculated as 15 caps.[52] Deaths from this fungus A. muscaria have been reported in historical journal articles and newspaper reports,[53][54][55] but with modern medical treatment, fatal poisoning from ingesting this mushroom is extremely rare.[56] Many books list Amanita muscaria as deadly,[57] but according to David Arora, this is an error that implies the mushroom is more toxic than it is.[58] The North American Mycological Association has stated that there were "no reliably documented cases of death from toxins in these mushrooms in the past 100 years".[59]

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 5:22pm:



It also implies that if you ate only one mushroom
in Autumn then it wouldn't do anything which
is exactly what I heard on the grapevine.
Apparently they taste very nice -
delicious fried in butter and bacon.

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 5:27pm:



I didn't find any of those:
You sound like the Indian here -  LOL