What is Agaric?
Agaric, or Amanita muscaria, is a basidiomycete mushroom. Fully grown, the cap is usually around 12cm wide (up to 30cm). It has a distinctive blood-red color (crimson, fading to yellow with age), scattered with white to yellow, removable flecks (warts). It is often called fly agaric due to European use as an insecticide. (It can stun or kill flies.) Agaric has been traditionally used in rituals as a hallucinogen.
Side Effects
Abortion, bleeding breast tenderness, increased uterine cell growth (endometrial hyperplasia), infertility, menstrual changes, weight gain.
Reactions / Interactions
Drugs that increase the risk of bleeding (like warfarin (Coumadin®)), hormonal drugs, birth control pills, drugs broken down by the liver, drugs that lower blood sugar levels, and herbs and supplements with similar effects (like chasteberry, ginkgo biloba, garlic and black cohosh).
What is Agaric?
Agaric, or Amanita muscaria, is a basidiomycete mushroom. Fully grown, the cap is usually around 12cm wide (up to 30cm). It has a distinctive blood-red color (crimson, fading to yellow with age), scattered with white to yellow, removable flecks (warts). It is often called fly agaric due to European use as an insecticide. (It can stun or kill flies.) Agaric has been traditionally used in rituals as a hallucinogen.
Side Effects
Abortion, bleeding breast tenderness, increased uterine cell growth (endometrial hyperplasia), infertility, menstrual changes, weight gain.
Reactions / Interactions
Drugs that increase the risk of bleeding (like warfarin (Coumadin®)), hormonal drugs, birth control pills, drugs broken down by the liver, drugs that lower blood sugar levels, and herbs and supplements with similar effects (like chasteberry, ginkgo biloba, garlic and black cohosh).
Safety
Avoid if allergic to red clover or other isoflavones. Caution with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or birth control pills. Caution if history of a bleeding disorder, breast cancer or endometrial caner. Caution with drugs that thin the blood. Avoid if pregnant or breastfeeding.
Dosage
Products often contain 40 milligrams of isoflavones per tablet.
Adults (18 years and older)
20-160 milligrams of red clover isoflavones has been taken by mouth daily.
Children (18 years and younger)
Not enough scientific data available.
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