Super Mario fans have fun playing with them. Doctors have studied them. Many chefs around the world prepare meals with them. They can appear in a matter of hours, disappear quickly and leave no trace. Mycologists are students of this world. Now, the fungus has been studied as a possible treatment to cancer, PTSD and other psychological disorders. You can buy mushrooms online in thi site.

Mushrooms (sometimes called toadstools) are fleshy fungi which can be found above ground, either on soil or in a food source. Because they don’t have chlorophyll as green plants, they are isolated from the rest.

Some mushrooms get nutrients from other sources, such as by eating higher plants and breaking down organic material. These are known as “decomposers”. Another group attacks living plants in order to kill and eat them. They are called parasites. Mycorrhizals can be both edible and toxic and they are often found near the roots trees like oaks or pines.

The mushrooms of mushrooms can be used to either nourish, heal or poison people. Few mushrooms are considered benign. The most common edible versions of this meat of vegetable world’ include the oyster and morel.

They are used extensively throughout cuisines in India, China and Korea. China is the world’s biggest producer, with more than half the mushrooms consumed globally. Most of the edible variety found in supermarkets is commercially produced on farms. It includes shiitake, portobello, and enoki.

For centuries, mushrooms have been used as a part of Eastern medicine, especially in traditional Chinese practices. Studies in the U.S. were started in the 1960s to examine possible ways to regulate the immune system, and inhibit tumor growth by using extracts of mushrooms used in cancer research.

Native Mesoamericans used mushrooms ritually for thousands upon thousands of years. Aztecs called mushrooms the ‘flesh-of-the gods’. Many cultures across America used mushrooms in religious ceremonies. It is shown in cave paintings in Spain, Algeria and Spain that ritualized ingestion dates back up to 9000 year. Psilocybin was discovered by Western psychiatry after World War II. Christian authorities both on the Atlantic and in Spain were questioned about its use.