http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/23/reindeer-magic-mushrooms_n_801006.html

The news just gets stranger and stranger.

Salat

This is fairly well known already, nothing new.

I find the A.muscaria to be a very useful mushroom, wouldn't go without it in the medical kit for basic winter ailments, at once a sleep aid, relaxant, aids secretory function for use against dry eyes/mouth in the cold when one is outside, and capable of giving quite an impressive resistance to the effects of cold.

aids secretory function for use against dry eyes/mouth in the cold when one is outside.

Can you please provide a reference? I work outside in this weather every year drys my hands so bad they just literally leak blood like I have the ebola virus or something. I'v tried lotions and many oils but was just thinking about something to induce internal moisterisation earlier as I attempted to pick up a heavy object and if felt like hands where on fire.

Obviously one can still freeze to death if you get left out in the cold long enough, normally though I would have bad effects of a non-sensory nature, but it definately boosts endurance. Booze on the other hand causes surface vasodilation, bringing blood closer to the surface of the skin, making you freeze all the faster.

As for secretory function, mucous membranes only, really, although it will cause you to sweat, its the muscarinic cholinergic activity thanks to the muscarine content that causes increased secretion from anywhere that wants to do any secreting.

Most of what is said about reindeer and fly agaric is total bolloks . The "scientists"report from the first post is a good example . Reindeer are BIG and live in herds from about 50 to 50000 animals . Most of their life they are on the edge of starvation because they live between the permanent ice line and the tree line . There food is rare so are fly agaric . Imagine how many reindeer there are in a herd , how big the deer are , how rare fly agaric are and how many a deer would have to eat to get a drug effect ?

The fuckers are red so that they get noticed from afar and then eaten and then the spores get shit out all over the place in piles of mushroom fertilizer = SHIT . The also contain ibotenic acid which has been used as a flavour enhancer .

The reason they are called fly agaric is because flies LOVE them .......wanna see how much ? Then pick some and put them in a closed container and watch it .