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Do Shrooms put poison in your brain and are they bad for you in general?

cyde arm

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My friend's under the impression that Shrooms are poison which is why you experience distortion of colors and shapes.
I say they aren't poisonous and that it's just the effect of the chemicals in them entering a certain part of your brain.
Can someone please back this up with a link?

and I asked "ChaCha", and they said Shrooms swell the brain and if it gets too swollen then it can kill you.
Is this true?
 
No it can't kill you, mushrooms are not bad for the body and you can eat a lot of them and not die. But it can give you an experience that is just extraordinarily intense, and that kind of intensity can do strange stuff to people: trauma's, nervous breakdowns and apparently someone also died because his heart gave into the intensity. But this last thing is so rare that one should not worry about it as a real danger. They are not bad for your body in general but for the mind it can be a lot to bear. So watch the dosage. Don't treat them recklessly, but don't treat them as if they were inherently harmful at a normal dose either.

It's not poisonous!

Wikipedia sez:
true psilocybin mushrooms are very non-toxic, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a branch of the Center for Disease Control, rated psilocybin less toxic than aspirin.[

So think about the trip, the experience, that is what matters here. The psychedelic effects mean mind-manifesting so if there are things in your mind that you can hurt yourself with, one must be especially careful with psychedelics. You can hurt yourself with them but mushrooms don't physically hurt you.
 
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Thanks for the kind welcoming. I must say that the Bluelight community is very kind compared to the other forums I've been to.
 
you better qualify your statement. there are MANY kinds of mushrooms that are toxic to the liver and kidneys and they WILL kill you if eaten! whether or not your consider the hallucinations and trip you get from psylocybin musrooms to be poison or not is relative to your definition of poison. some medical professionals will call it mushroom poisoning. and there are many people who will tell you that mushrooms caused them lots of physical distress. it's not a black and white issue.
 
There are only a handful of mushroom types you can die from or get really sick, granted some of them look somewhat like edible / culinary ones or look like Amanita's for instance.
There is a bit of fear mongering here and there with regard to mushrooms but they are not that scary, only thing is that hunting for them in nature and eating without mycological knowhow is a foolish and dangerous thing to do.

But we're talking shrooms here, psilocybe mushrooms, my friend.


I mean LSD is not harmful to your body, and is put into blotters often enough. That doesn't mean that you can't put anything else into a blotter that's poisonous!

So thinking every single piece of blotter in the world is prequalified to eat that would be extremely naieve and lacking a good deal of common sense.
 
Yeah even 100% benign foods with no active ingredients can make certain people feel ill just because that doesn't agree with their disposition or because they have an allergy.. now a mushroom that also has a large impact on your state of mind and your direct experience of reality through it's contents might just not be the best medicine for some.. lol..

And can work wonders for others at the right time.. or just be ok.
 
http://www.tripzine.com/pit/html/multi-state-theory.htm If you can live with technical details, here is exactely how psychedelic tryptamines (including mushrooms ofcourse) work; the detailed reason behind all mental and visual effects.

If you want it summed up really short; the chemicals in mushrooms (psilocin and psilocybin) are agonists of certain serotonin subreceptors, most noticably the 5HT2a subreceptor (5HT means serotonin); that receptor is largely active in the visual cortex, so thats why you get colourful visuals. The working mechanism isn't toxic it all.

It is because of that that the non-toxic rose range for substances like LSD or mushrooms can be really, really huge, making them very non-toxic.
 
No Psilocybin mushrooms are not toxic and they don't hurt your brain.

There is basically zero evidence they are bad for you and anecdotal evidence that they are actually GOOD FOR YOU!

There is hard evidence that things like Ayahuasca, Peyote and Iboga are good for you!
 
Ridiculously high doses (the equivalent of eating close to 2 kilos of dried shrooms) could theoretically be toxic - that's the LD50 point for rats relative to body weight. There are many, many drugs for which such a comparison is useless.

As others here have pretty much explained, no human being is known to have died because of any toxic or otherwise physically harmful effect of psilocybin or psilocin, the active ingredients in shrooms. There are certainly other varieties of mushroom that are poisonous, but if you have one of the various edible strains of psilocybe mushroom, aside from a few obscure medical contraindications (wikipedia says don't combine it with therapeutic doses of lithium as this can apparently cause seizures... lithium is weird stuff from what I've read), there's no reason to believe they would be likely to cause any lasting physical damage, or any acute negative symptoms beyond perhaps a subjectively difficult trip and some vomiting or other short lived symptoms like that. I've had some rough times on mushrooms, but a bad trip is pretty much as bad as it can go aside from doing something stupid or getting arrested or something while tripping.

So, short answer: no, psilocybe mushrooms don't poison your body in any way unless you consider the trip itself to be a "poisonous" effect. They can, however, be difficult experiences and you may regret the experience in retrospect, though I am grateful for most of my mushroom experiences, including the most intense of the 'bad', difficult ones.
 
mushrooms are little bit toxic,I think our livers dont like high/heroic dose mushroom trips.

Commonly used species don't cause any known hepatoxicity at recreational dosages.
 
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