Puffballs

[smittysurvival]

so gryffyn is the new mom of this forum? . . . CANID IS EATING THE MUSHROOMS!!!

[gryffynklm]

In that case... Go to your room now or you will never get your bow back.

[smittysurvival]

ha. ok then i have three new staves in my room. . . (which is good because i broke my bow)

[gryffynklm]

That too bad. Sweep up the shavings or no supper.

[canid]

so gryffyn is the new mom of this forum? . . . CANID IS EATING THE MUSHROOMS!!!

don't change the subject by tattling...

[smittysurvival]

oh i do love supper. . . how bout i show you Canids stash and then ill clean up the shaving and i get both our supper. (canid, dont tell him about hole in the wall bc i will bring you down with me)

[Trabitha]

I know here on the site it states that puffballs have no medicinal value but they certainly used to. Here in the UK, the old, leathery ones (full of dark brown, dry spores) were strung up by the forge where they would keep dry. If someone cut themselves, a puff of the spores soon staunched the bleeding, aided clotting and seemed to keep infection at bay.

The ones we used here were about the size of your fist, smooth but leathery to look at when fully mature. Not particularly tasty when white but not bad, better battered or cooked in a stew rather than on their own.

I've seen it used to stop bleeding too, packed into a poultice...
We have a lot of puffballs out here. ( for those who also have periwinkle, it works to stop bleeding too.)

[neondog]

I know here on the site it states that puffballs have no medicinal value but they certainly used to. Here in the UK, the old, leathery ones (full of dark brown, dry spores) were strung up by the forge where they would keep dry. If someone cut themselves, a puff of the spores soon staunched the bleeding, aided clotting and seemed to keep infection at bay..

I recently learned that there is a lot of Kaolin (white) clay in the "mountain" range just north of me. According to the Wiki article about the stuff, In April 2008, the US Naval Medical Research Center announced the successful use of a Kaolinite-derived aluminosilicate nanoparticle infusion in traditional gauze, known commercially as QuikClot Combat Gauze. I'm guessing that a fine powder scraped from or separated with water, dried and powdered and added to a dressing would be beneficial. or buy QuikClot...

[Rick]

QuikClot has been around a lot longer than that. And I wouldn't add the raw powder to a wound either. There are a lot of other items contain in the rock like bacteria and viruses.