NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand – Mushrooms are working their magic in one of Thailand’s largest national parks. Not the kind of magic sought after by some backpackers on their psychedelic beach trips; rather, one that lures poachers and illegal loggers to abandon the forests for mushroom barns, thus promoting nature conservation when law enforcement and penalties alone don’t work.
There is many amazing facts and interesting medicinal uses the average person does not know about mushrooms. It is important for us to open our minds and become knowledgable of the natural resources our planet provides, instead of looking to science and chemicals for every medical solution we should look back into the earth and consider the viable sources of medicine that are right under our feet.
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You are what you eat—unless you're an oyster mushroom. In that case, you can indulge in some of the most toxic, noxious petroleum products available and turn them into delicious, photogenic morsels that go wonderfully in white wine cream sauces and Japanese stir-fries with not a carcinogen remaining.
One of the great features we have included with the new Spores101.com website is the ability to collect reward points. Any purchase you make at the website will automatically grant you a single reward point for the starting dollar value of the product you ordered. After saving up enough reward points you can redeem them for certain products that will show as available in your account. You need to login and click on MY REWARDS to see how many points you have saved up, you can also click on REDEEM to view the products that are available for redemption.
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Generally a spore syringe is used to drop spores and water mixture onto slides for microscopy research or to inoculate sterile substrates with a specific strain of mushroom spores. There is a variety of methods for doin this and you can learn more on websites like www.shroomtalk.com
Spore syringes must be sterile when used for inoculation of substrates. In most cases you can purchase sterile, viable syringes from vendors online such as www.spores101.com or you can make them yourself if you have some basic equipment and mushroom spores isolated in a sterile container. Its better to purchase spore syringes online from a vendor because you can be assured of the quality and sterility, as well as use a guarantee if provided. Sterile means the spore syringe contains only water and mushrooms spores and has been prepared in a sterile environment.
Spore printing is a simple but important process for storing and collecting of mushroom species. Basically you prepare some kind of clean material to store the print on (fresh typing paper, index cards, wax paper, tin foil, glass slides, ect... ), then cut a mature mushroom cap off at the stem, as near the mushroom gills as possible. Only use a clean scalpel or knife to prevent any contamination.
Paul Stamets is interviewed by The Story (thestory.org) talking about how Oyster mushrooms can save the world and how they can help the recent gulf oil spill. Listen to the .MP3
Also reflecting on early times in Paul Stamets life. Listen as he tells the story of his first magic mushroom experience and how he was able to overcome his problem with stuttering.
For the first time, people under the influence of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, laid down in what appeared to be an fMRI brain scanner.
However, unlike an fMRI machine, the device didn’t generate any magnetic fields. In fact the device didn’t even generate an image of the brain or measure brain activity at all. The device was made out of wood.
Here is an amazing and interesting fact; did you know that certain mushroom mycelium can eat oil? Yes that is what I said, mycelium can eat oil and therefore help clean up an oil spill.
A variety of Oyster mushrooms have proven to be extremely efficient at consuming oil and turning it into a non-toxic compost in less than 3 months.
Mushrooms are an amazing source of nutrition and should be considered a valuable food source in every home. More people need to take advantage of this abundant fat free food, all it takes is a little effort and curiosity to try new things.
Mushrooms provide a wide array of textures and flavours to work with so there is no end to the combinations you can create. Most edible mushrooms are also packed full of cancer fighting compounds, antioxidants, potassium, vitamin D, naicin, and riboflavin just to mention a few. Mushrooms also contain absolutley no fat or cholesteral and approximately only 14 calories per cup.
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