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And remember, kids, this is for plants only. Had someone show up touting this in one of my mushroom foraging groups once, where following this advice for every
by Matticus_Rex 7y ago
And remember, kids, this is for plants only. Had someone show up touting this in one of my mushroom foraging groups once, where following this advice for every mushroom you see would probably get you killed within ten foraging trips in most areas.
Mushroom foraging isn't nearly as hard to learn as the general public believes, but you don't do it like this.
- CzarnyZiutek 7y ago^ this is just not true.
- chdhchd 7y agoThe process I was taught for mushrooms that you can identify as an edible species was: Day 1: Eat a small (1/4 tsp) amount and observe for any reaction Day 2: Repeat Day 3: Don't eat any. Observe for any reaction. Day 4: Eat The explanation was that individuals can have widely varied reactions to species others find edible. Obviously don't do this for something unknown.
- Matticus_Rex 7y agoThat's a bit overly cautious for identified edibles outside of a couple that can cause extreme reactions (raw shiitake, for example), but it's much better to be overly cautious with mushrooms than to be overly bold.
- tastyfreeze 7y agoEh, its not a bad test. Chicken of the woods is edible and quite delicious. But, some people(including me) will have severe gastrointestinal distress after eating. Mushrooms produce a plethora of compounds that people may react to. Much better to try in small doses the first time.
- monetus 7y agoIndeed; though I restrict doing this to mushrooms I'm familiar with. Neurotoxins abound, and that test won't reveal them.
- Matticus_Rex 7y agoThat test almost certainly wouldn't trigger your CotW GI issues -- I also have issues with CotW unless it is cooked to death, but 1/4t wouldn't do anything, so with that test you'd still be surprised by the GI issues the first time you ate a bunch.
- hinkley 7y agoI've bumped into some homesteaders and permaculturists who love the word 'medicinal'. They don't seem to get that 'medicinal' means "the disease is worse than the cure", not "make salads out of this and enjoy!". If it were just edible it would be labeled edible in the literature. If you consume it in a way or quantity that isn't recommended, well, there's a reason you don't see this stuff in the grocery store.
- salawat 7y agoThe reason is next to no company/investor wants to fund double blind clinical research on a natural product to come up with an FDA/medically sound treatment regimen due to there being no monopoly privileges conferred for doing so, therefore rendering it unprofitable from a capitalist free market point of view. Big difference. It's not that all medicinal plants can be worse than the condition off the bat, it's that no one can make money by figuring out a dosage and putting it through the proper channels to allow manufacture and utilization for that purpose. Herbalists have been doing their best to maintain a corpus of knowledge around these procedures for centuries. It isn't their fault that our boner for letting the market arbitrate ever aspect of our lives keeps useful research from being done.
- IanCal 7y agoI think you misread that. They didn't say that medicinal plants were worse than the condition - rather the opposite. The point they were making was "better than being ill" is not the same as "you will always feel better so eat it at any meal".
- bendbro 7y agoI lean heavily capitalist but I enjoy keeping notes of things like this that must so obviously be done collectively. Thanks
- dsego 7y agoAll mushrooms are edible, some only once.
- agumonkey 7y agoAlso you can kill cancer cells with a gun