Psilocybin Mushroom

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Psilocybin Mushroom, commonly known as magic mushrooms or psychedelic mushrooms, are a polyphyletic informal group of fungi that contain psilocybin, which turns into psilocin upon ingestion. Biological genera containing psilocybin mushrooms include Psilocybe, Panaeolus (including Copelandia), Inocybe, Pluteus, Gymnopilus, and Pholiotina.

Psilocybin mushrooms  are used as recreational drugs, psilocybin or magic mushrooms are naturally occurring and are consumed for their hallucinogenic effects.

This is a  psychedelic drug, which means they can affect all the senses, altering a person’s thinking, sense of time and emotions. Psychedelic drugs causes hallucination in humans, that is seeing or hearing things that do not exist or that are not happening.

The key ingredient in magic mushrooms is psilocybin. When psilocybin is taken, it’s converted in the body to psilocin, which is the chemical with the psychoactive properties.

Magic shrooms look exactly like ordinary mushrooms, there are many different types of magic mushrooms. The most common ones in Australia are called golden tops, blue meanies and liberty caps. Magic mushrooms look similar to poisonous mushrooms that can cause a person to become very sick and can result in death. especially when over consumed.

Psilocybin mushrooms are also consumed as dried material in capsules. Synthetic psilocybin appears as a white crystalline powder that can be processed into tablets or capsules or dissolved in water.

Risk of Psilocybin

Most people who consume psilocybin mushroom may experience persistent, distressing alterations to how they see the world in a different view. These may take the form of hallucination (visual flashback), a traumatic recall of  intensely upsetting experiences.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, people can continue to experience hallucinations  anywhere from weeks to years after using the hallucinogen. This is a condition called hallucinogen-persisting perception disorder.

Some people  who consume psychedelic mushroom may also experience psychosis, fear, confusion, agitation, delirium, and other syndromes that resemble schizophrenia.

Though the risk is minimal, some psilocybin users risk accidental poisoning from eating a poisonous mushroom by mistake.

Some symptoms of mushroom poisoning may include muscle spasms, confusion, and delirium. A person should visit an emergency room immediately if these symptoms occur or persist.

Because hallucinogenic and other poisonous mushrooms are common in most living environments, people should keep mushrooms out of reach of children to prevent them from consuming it accidental.

Most trusted Source accidental mushroom ingestion results in minor gastrointestinal illness, with only the most severe instances requiring medical attention/care.

There isn’t enough reliable information to know if psilocybin is safe to use without medical supervision at any dose, including micro doses.

Side Effects of Shrooms

The effects of magic mushrooms are generally similar to those of LSD. They include altered perception of time and space and intense changes in mood and feeling in human beings.

Other possible effects of psilocybin include:

• euphoria
• peacefulness
• spiritual awakening
• derealization, or the feeling that surroundings are not real
• depersonalization, or a dream-like sense of being disengaged from surroundings
• distorted thinking
• visual alteration and distortion, such as seeing halos of light and vivid colors
• dilated pupils
• dizziness
• drowsiness and yawning
• impaired concentration
• muscle weakness
• lack of coordination
• unusual body sensations
• nausea and vomiting
• paranoia
• confusion
• frightening hallucinations