'Deathcaps' for a Reason: Don't Eat This Mushroom

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/01/Poisons_Venoms_and_Pills_Toxicology_101

Patil Armenian, physician with the California Poison Control System, describes the effects of the highly poisonous and difficult-to-treat amanita phalloides, otherwise known as the deathcap mushroom. "It pretty much kills your liver," she warns.

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Join Patil Armenian, MD of the California Poison Control System for Poisons, Venoms and Pills: Toxicology 101, an uninhibited interactive presentation and talk about all the various toxic substance you can ingest, inject, drink, get stung by, or be bitten with: from pills in your medicine chest to a viper in the wilderness.

This talk includes shocking visuals from the Poison Control Center's vast archives of curiosities in accidental and intentional poisonings and overdoses. - California Academy of Sciences

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[Mastereddy97]

i heard if you eat mushrooms you see the burger king on fire singing what is love

[DecmanReturns]

It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing.

...said Boromir.

[scttbrnnr]

I want some liver now 0:25

[Pacfan98]

Don't eat this, Mario!

[DethBeetz]

@miller84157 i think you got that backwards

[pabloskate24]

@420andsuch There are even some mushrooms that bruise blue with oxidation but doesn't content any trace of psilocybin so don't pick them up if you are not 100% sure what they are.

[SALVOTHESTONEDONE]

The comnent below me LOL

[420andsuch]

I keep finding mushrooms on cow dung in alabama that look exactly like cubes but they don't bruise blue...I usually search in the afternoon though...is it possible that they are cubes? just dried up? No longer bruising blue or even carrying psychedelic effects?

[Azimuth95]

ProtonJonSA

[24edy]

just don't eat wild mushrooms if you don't know what you are doing.... period