Amanita Red

Poisonous! Fly agarics - Amanitaceae Basidiomycetes - Basidiomycetes.

Botanical description. Everyone recognizes the fabulous mushroom of our forests with its white stem and red cap with white spots. It can be found in oak and birch forests in late summer or early autumn.

Active ingredients: muscarine, muscaridine and various poisons.

Application. Fly agaric is known primarily as a poisonous mushroom, but medicinal painkillers are also prepared from it (mainly for pain of nervous origin). In homeopathy it is used for general excitability, spasms of the bladder and intestines, and severe menopause.