Psychedelic Effect ofPholiota spectabilis
- 16 February 1967
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 276 (7) , 391-392
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196702162760707
Abstract
Pholiota spectabilis (Gymnopilus spectabilis) is a well known and recognizable wild mushroom that is generally considered inedible only because of its bitter taste, although attention has recently been called to its hallucinogenic properties.1 , 2 Other species of pholiota (P. marginalis, or Galerina venenata) have caused fatalities.Case ReportOn September 9, 1966, at about 9 a.m., a 56-year-old retired mechanical engineer of Harvard, Massachusetts, picked a batch of mushrooms growing in a clump by the side of a road in front of his house. Under the mistaken impression that they were honey mushrooms (Armillaria mellea, an . . .Keywords
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