In addition to the boletus boom, buyers of myrrh have sprung up, offering more mushrooms than usual.

“We pay 60 euros per kilo for dried mussels. If you don’t eat this plant, just gather and touch it, there is no health risk. We don’t buy during the first year and we take them out, ”says the buyer who answered the phone about the business and says that many people call. The maximum quantity supplied is 5 kilograms.

It is estimated that one tenth of the weight remains after drying. They do not need raw materials. After offering to introduce himself, the salesperson “hung up.”

Next more specific announcement:

“I buy dried red musmirs. Price of dried mussels: up to 60 per kilogram depending on quantity and quality. For shreds up to 30 per kg. “

Another buyer advertises that they are looking for undried mushrooms, but only buy healthy hats. Stems are not required. The price per kilogram is 4 euros. By comparison, high-quality boletus were bought in Dzūkija last week for 3.5 euros per kilo.

Modestas Masevičius, director of IĮ Girios, which is dedicated to buying and processing mushrooms, says they also received an offer to buy musmirs. The Lithuanians wanted this plant.

“I can’t imagine where they can be used. They also offered us to buy them, but this mushroom is poisonous and the poison, if treated in the same way as normal forest harvest, can turn into good mushrooms. Another nuance is that we do not know where they are used, so we do not want to allow ourselves shady deals. He asked to buy the heads of small muskrats, in which the concentration of some substance is higher than in large mushrooms, ”explains M. Masevičius.

The phytotherapist and pharmacist Virgilijus Skirkevičius admits: the first thing he thought when he heard about red myrrh is to buy it: its hallucinogenic effect, but, as far as he knows, this trade is legal.

The pharmacist says that the use of red mustard has been common in the Nordic countries, where there is no coffee, tea or other substances that affect and tone the body. However, it was a privilege of shamans who associated the use with religious practice, not for pleasure. Ancient medicine practiced similar substances so that a sage could “get out of the body” and discover what no one else knew.

Red myrtle does not need to be mixed with green musk, from which it can die. The former is not particularly toxic. However, after consumption and multiplication, the sensations will be unpleasant – diarrhea and vomiting.

There is no tradition of using mushrooms for narcotic treatment or effects in Lithuania. V. Skirkevčius speculates that musks are bought for export and destined for the Scandinavian market.

In our folk medicine, they are used as a suitable tool for the treatment of oncological diseases. Plants with toxic substances are chosen quite often for this purpose.

During the famine, red mussels were eaten, only to be boiled several times. This is how the main hallucinogenic substances break down. According to the expert, its toxicity is quite exaggerated.

“It is not worth experimenting and trying to eat these mushrooms when they are full of boletus,” plays V. Skirkevičius, saying that it is not worth experimenting in the kitchen and trying to get dizzy with red musmus, because most likely the result will not be flying with clouds, but diarrhea and vomiting.

Ramūnas Matonis, a representative of the Police Department, says that the following mushrooms are included in the list of narcotic and psychotropic substances and that all articles 259 and 260 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania apply to them. restrictions and penalties. responsibility:
– Roots of fruits of the genus Fungi and their parts that contain psilicibin or psilocin.
– Spores of the genus Mushroom, fungus.

The red myrtle belongs to the genus Mejillón (Amanita).