Detoxified Fly Agaric How much Amanita muscaria to is safe to eat? When you detoxify the “Fly Amanita” by leaching out the water soluble toxins by parboiling thinly sliced mushrooms in plentiful water for at least ten, and preferably fifteen minutes, you transform Amanita muscaria into a prime edible mushroom. Short of lab testing which…
Category: Wild Mushrooms
Amanita muscaria, edibile if parboiled
The toxins in the mushroom, Amanita muscaria, are water soluble. This applies to the two psychoactive compounds, ibotemic acid and its decaroxolated derivative, muscomol as well as the small quantity of muscarine found in the mushroom. There is a long documented history of detoxifying Amanita muscaria through boiling. I have published an extensive history of…
William Rubel 