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Toxicity of the genera Conocybe, Gymnopilus, Panaeolus, Pluteus, Psilocybe, and Stropharia
Identifier
017376
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Medicina (Kaunas). 2005;41(12):1067-70.
[Hallucinogenic mushrooms].
[Article in Lithuanian]
Reingardiene D1, Vilcinskaite J, Lazauskas R.
- 1Clinic of Intensive Therapy, Kaunas University of Medicine,Kaunas, Lithuania.
Abstract
The group of hallucinogenic mushrooms (species of the genera Conocybe, Gymnopilus, Panaeolus, Pluteus, Psilocybe, and Stropharia) is psilocybin-containing mushrooms. These "magic", psychoactive fungi have the serotonergic hallucinogen psilocybin.
Toxicity of these mushrooms is substantial because of the popularity of hallucinogens. Psilocybin and its active metabolite psilocin are similar to lysergic acid diethylamide.
These hallucinogens affect the central nervous system rapidly (within 0.5-1 hour after ingestion), producing ataxia, hyperkinesis, and hallucinations.
In this review article there are discussed about history of use of hallucinogenic mushrooms and epidemiology; pharmacology, pharmacodynamics, somatic effects and pharmacokinetics of psilocybin, the clinical effects of psilocybin and psilocin, signs and symptoms of ingestion of hallucinogenic mushrooms, treatment and prognosis.
PMID: 16401965