Mushrooms are a recognized component of the human diet, with versatile medicinal properties. Some mushrooms are popular worldwide for their nutritional and therapeutic properties. However, some species are dangerous because they cause toxicity. There are many reports explaining the medicinal and/or toxic effects of these fungal species. Cases of serious human poisoning generally caused by the i...

BACKGROUND A variable clinical picture characterizes mushroom poisoning. The Amatoxin, the main toxic component of these fungi, are responsible for gastrointestinal symptoms as well as hepatic and renal failure. As acute gastroenteritis is extremely common in our set up, so every patient presenting with these symptoms is treated as gastroenteritis of viral aetiology. The authors present the cli...

A new sesquiterpenoid (1) was isolated from the mushroom, Sparassis crispa, along with a known sesquiterpenoid (2). The structure of 1 was determined as (3R(*), 3aS(*), 4S(*), 8aR(*))-3-(1'-hydroxy-1'-methylethyl)-5,8a-dimethyldecahydroazulen-4-ol by the combination of NMR and ESI-MS analyses.

Orellanine (3,3',4,4'-tetrahydroxy-2,2'-bipyridine-1,1'-dioxide) is a tetrahydroxylated di-N-oxidized bipyridine compound. The toxin, present in certain species of Cortinarius mushrooms, is structurally similar to herbicides Paraquat and Diquat. Cortinarius orellanus and Cortinarius rubellus are the major orellanine-containing mushrooms. Cortinarius mushrooms are widely reported in Europe where...

Ingestion of mushrooms from the genus Amanita can present detrimental consequences to the human body. The mushroom is frequently found in the coastal Pacific Northwest, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio. Amanitin, one of the two distinct toxins isolated from the Amanita mushroom, is responsible for the majority of symptoms and signs seen with mushroom poisoning. Clinically, ingestion of these ...

Toxicologists in India do not appear to have been struck so far by mushroom poisoning. For many years the solitary case described was that of a Collector who, half a century ago, laughed in an indignified manner in his Court after consuming mushrooms at breakfast (Chevers, quoted by Modi, 1949). Dried mushrooms from Kashmir are consumed as delicacies in the Punjab as khumb, guchclii or dhingri ...