Toadstool has been familiar to us since childhood. It is mentioned in fairy tales, its danger is talked about in schools, in conversations with parents. But its properties are much more interesting from a scientific point of view than our knowledge about it, preserved from childhood.
This mushroom grows in Europe, North America, Asia. In the Northern Hemisphere, the climate is most favorable for it. Its appearance is well known - a red or orange cap, reaching a diameter of 5-20 cm, on which white scaly elements are located. You can often see small teeth on the edge of the hat. A kind of white "skirt" is located below the leg. The white leg of the mushroom, expanded to the lower part, is also covered with scales.
This type of mushroom is rich in psychoactive substances. Among them, muscarine, muscimol, and ibotenic acid can be noted. They pose a certain danger when the mushroom is consumed incorrectly. However, in addition to the danger, the fly agaric can bring good. Modern scientists are still studying the properties and composition of the mushroom, its effect on the body. Thanks to the red mushroom, many people improved their health, gave up bad habits, and normalized their emotional state.
What does the mushroom contain?
As mentioned above, amanita is a mushroom with a rather bright appearance and a rich internal composition. The most interesting from a scientific point of view are ibotenic acid, muscimol, and muscarine.
The first has an insecticidal effect, concentrated in the fruiting body of the mushroom. Muscimol, which is a metabolite of ibotenic acid, is responsible for the hallucinogenic effect when a large amount of it enters the body. Muscarine belongs to the genus of toxic alkaloids. In large quantities, it leads to muscle weakness, sweating, copious secretion of tear fluid and other effects. That is, it directly affects the parasympathetic nervous system. It is also contained in the fruiting body of the mushroom.
In addition, the composition of the mushroom includes amavadin, choline, betaine. But due to the high content of psychoactive substances and low taste quality, it is practically not used in food today. The preventive and curative effect is achieved by using microdoses of dried mushroom.
Effect on the body
Previously, there was an opinion that the psychoactive substances contained in the amanita mushroom lead to the same manifestations of the human body. However, it turned out that this is far from the case. The symptoms and nature of these conditions depend on many different aspects.
The effect depends on the way substances entered the body, their dosage, chemical composition. All this belongs to pharmacological factors. The non-pharmacological ones include what a person expects from the reception, his mood.
Impact on the psyche
The effect of red amanita on the psyche is due to the psychoactive components contained in its composition. The nature of the effect depends on how you consume the product. If it is microdosing, then you will feel a positive effect. If you exceed the recommended doses, you may experience a somewhat negative effect on your psyche. A so-called altered state of consciousness may be observed. Let's consider in more detail what happens when red agaric is used incorrectly.
There are several phases of the action of this mushroom on the human psyche. The first is called the exposure phase, it occurs roughly half an hour after taking amanita. Its duration is from 2 to 4 hours. A person feels euphoric, while his emotions and mood tend to change, the state is also accompanied by visual and auditory images, the perception of space and time changes.
The next phase is called the decline phase, it occurs 4-6 hours after taking amanita. The person's condition normalizes, the effect of psychoactive substances decreases. But this process can be accompanied by a feeling of extreme fatigue, disorientation, headache.
In some cases, the altered state of consciousness manifests itself in several cycles. The first occurs after waking up and can last for several days. Characteristic feelings are nausea, weakness, headache, malaise, absence or decrease in appetite.
Changes in mood and emotions can also occur cyclically. After taking it, a feeling of happiness and euphoria may come, but after a while they can change to diametrically opposite ones. When there is a recession, irritability, melancholy comes. It is quite difficult to predict specific emotions from improper consumption of amanita. In each case, they can change differently. That is why we recommend that you read our article "Instructions for the microdosing of amanita mushroom" in order to get only a positive effect from the mushroom.
Changes in activity level
30-40 minutes after taking amanita, a person feels a rush of cheerfulness, strength, joy and euphoria. However, with an increase in the concentration of muscimol, activation increases, a person may feel nervous, irritable, and aggressive.
She can also experience hallucinations, when objects around her change color, shape, and distortions of the environment occur. These phenomena can be quite realistic in the altered consciousness, which leads to anxiety, fear and panic.
When the decline phase comes, the level of activation gradually decreases, the body goes into a state of fatigue and drowsiness. However, due to the effect of substances on the psyche, dreams at this time can be particularly vivid and interesting. A person can smell smells, hear sounds and voices in a different way than it would happen without an altered state of consciousness. People who have encountered such phenomena say that dreams can be both absolutely magical and terrifying.
And if you use the product correctly in microdoses? Then you will be able to achieve a surge of vigor during the day, and in the evening - relaxation before going to bed.
Changes in motor skills
During the decline phase, a person's movements may be slowed down and difficult. She may feel heaviness, as if the earth's gravity has increased. Possible worsening of coordination, disorientation.
There is also an effect called "walk in the woods". Due to the influence of psychoactive substances in the excitement phase, a person, being on a flat surface, moves as if he were in a forest. It is accepted to associate this effect with dizziness, impaired coordination.
The effect of the mushroom can increase when it is combined with psychoactive substances, alcohol. Such conditions are very dangerous, because the coordination disorders become too serious, which threatens the risk of injury and accidents. Therefore, for example, you should not take even microdoses of fly agaric if you are prescribed antidepressants or antipsychotics by a doctor. First you need to get rid of them, and their effect will be replaced by amanita.
And if you use the product correctly in microdoses? Then you will be more active during the day, mobile, you will have time to do many things for which you did not have enough strength and time before.
Violation of perception
After consuming fly agaric, a person can experience changes in the passage of time, perception of his own body and the world around him. Some characterize such states as "going beyond reality." Specialists describe fly agaric intoxication as a state of increased sensitivity to everything around. This happens due to the influence of psychoactive substances on the psyche, a change in the perception and consciousness of a person.
In this state, a person can see or hear things that are not there. She has visual and auditory hallucinations. The first involve blurring of contours, color change, micro- and macropsia, misidentification of oneself in space, rotation, jumps of the visual field. Others manifest themselves in the emergence of obsessive sounds that seem real.
In a state of fly agaric intoxication, increased imagery of objects may occur. They seem much brighter, more significant. At the same time, a person notices some small details, smells, textures, which he did not pay attention to before.
However, the world does not always seem brighter and more beautiful in a state of fly agaric intoxication. Sometimes negative effects can occur. Anxiety, fear, panic states appear.
And if you use the product correctly in microdoses? Then your dreams will become bright, interesting, you will get pleasure from simple things that you did not pay attention to before.
Changes in emotional state
Changes in the emotional state during exposure to the substances contained in amanita are individual for different people, as is their intensity. Someone can feel only good emotions, someone negative, someone their combination. A person's mood before consuming a mushroom can also affect the effects, as can the surrounding environment.
There are known cases when, after taking amanita, people remained in anxious and depressed states for a long time. This is associated with the content of substances in the fly agaric that affect the production of serotonin by the brain. It is this hormone that is responsible for a person's emotions and mood. A decrease in the level of this hormone leads to negative feelings. Normalization of serotonin secretion may require some time during which the person will feel anxious.
And if you use the product correctly in microdoses? Then your emotional state will become stable, you will reduce anxiety, and you will react more calmly to troubles.
Violations in the motivational, meaningful environment
The action of amanita can lead to a violation of motivation, and more precisely, self-esteem. It can both rise and fall, accompanied in the first case by excessive confidence in one's abilities, and in the second by doubts about such.
A person may become interested in phenomena that were not of interest to him before, for example, mysticism or spiritual practices. In some cases, deep philosophical reflections on the role of a person, the meaning of life, etc. may arise. When used, fly agaric can also affect a person's sociability. Moreover, it can be both a craving for such a thing and, on the contrary, a desire for solitude. It also depends on the initial mood, environment.
In a changed consciousness, a desire for new emotions can manifest itself, inspiration can arise, openness to experiments and knowledge is manifested.
And if you use the product correctly in microdoses? Then you will be able to improve your creative abilities, discover new facets of your own creativity.
Changes in self-awareness
In a state of altered consciousness, a person can experience a change in identity, which can manifest itself in feelings, as if the consciousness has moved into another body, the person has become someone else. Most often, this is due to the fact that such an experience leads to hallucinations.
Eating amanita also leads to a change in reflection, when a person considers phenomena and things from a different angle. She can show interest, think about things that she was not interested in before.
The dissociative phenomenon is also characteristic of fly agaric intoxication. In this state, the personality can split. A phenomenon of this kind leads to the feeling that a person is no longer one whole, his consciousness is divided, and sometimes there is a feeling that he becomes someone else, shares his body with someone. All the same hallucinations, as well as a number of other aspects described above, are responsible for such a violation.
And if you use the product correctly in microdoses? Then you will be able to discover new facets of your personality. Perhaps you are eager to learn something new, but behind the daily hassles you do not notice the signals of the brain.
Violation of body perception
This phenomenon involves several possible manifestations. One gets the feeling that one's own body is being transformed, deformed to varying degrees, even disappearing completely.
In the human mind, the body can be distorted in some parts, and its proportions and dimensions can change. There may be a feeling that a person's hand has become larger, the face has changed, it has become huge or completely tiny.
Some experience a state of flight, complete dissolution of their own body. At the same time, the phenomenon may be accompanied by a feeling that the body is literally melting or flowing like a river. Sometimes fly agaric intoxication leads to a feeling of transition to other dimensions, where the physical form does not exist. There are many variations of such distortions of perception, and each of them is accompanied by individual sensations.
Depending on the initial state of well-being, such "transformations" can lead to both positive emotions and fear.
And if you use the product correctly in microdoses? Then the above manifestations do not threaten you.
Changes in behavior and mental activity
Of course, brain activity is also adjusted while eating amanita. The brain regulates behavior and mental aspects differently. A person behaves according to how he feels the world, himself, his body. In this case, the critical assessment of one's condition and actions changes. A person can sincerely believe that a certain kind of behavior corresponds to the surrounding situation.
In conclusion, we can say that it is important to follow the recommendations of specialists regarding the use of red amanita. This will reveal its beneficial properties and bypass the negative ones. The sphere of use of the mushroom for the prevention of diseases and the fight against addictions is growing every year. The discipline of those who use fly agaric must also grow - let's be responsible.
Ready-made products from fly agarics from "Muhomornia"
Our online store offers products made from red fly agaric with which it is convenient to start microdosing. These are dried caps, mushrooms ground to a powdery state and dosed capsules of 0.5 g. And we also have a wonderful amanita tincture. And most importantly, you can get a free consultation on the use of finished products in our Telegram channel - https://t.me/muhomornya
