The flavonoid silymarin and one of its structural components, silibinin, are substances with documented hepatoprotective properties. Their mechanisms of action are still poorly understood.

Among them are the death cap (Amanita phalloides) and western destroying angel (Amanita ocreata), two of the world’s most ...

Mushrooms offer significant ecological, nutritional, and medicinal benefits. They play crucial roles in ecosystems, provide ...

The East Bay Regional Park District is cautioning park visitors that mushrooms popping up during the rainy season may contain dangerous toxins.

I stumbled across an interesting tidbit that is appropriate for this month's theme of poison awareness. I was intrigued and I hope you are as well. There's a small poison garden at Alnwick Castle in ...

A charity in Australia has repeated a warning against picking and eating wild mushrooms. The Food Safety Information ...

The fungi kingdom is all through local forests and the Aongatete Forest Project wants to share their knowledge with the ...

The results of most clinical trials with the thistle (Silybum marianum) extract, silymarin, are difficult to interpret because of a variety of reasons: small sample size, variability in type and ...

Aside from herbal remedists and picky pizza-eaters, most of us are unlikely to give mushrooms a second thought. Christopher ...

3 Accident and Emergency Department, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Dr K Berry, Accident and Emergency Department, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, ...