Mushrooms for health and beauty
 Mushrooms like such familiar and completely unknown ... delicious, useful and dangerous.

In our country there are more than 100 species of fungi used in food as their tenth. There are mushrooms, which are not collected in the forest, and are grown on special plantations, for example, mushrooms, oyster mushrooms. 20 species of fungi growing in Russia, are poisonous to humans.

Be careful:

- It is clear that collect mushrooms can only be experienced mushroom pickers. A novice mushroom show better every knowledgeable person. Joking with mushrooms is dangerous!

- Mushrooms can not gather in parks, public gardens, botanical gardens, courtyards and even in the city. Mushrooms absorb all harmful substances, including heavy metals - mercury, lead and others.

- Brought by the mushrooms should immediately go, wash and process.

- Unfortunately, the poisonous mushrooms poisoning manifests itself immediately, but after 8-12 hours after consumption.

- Common symptoms of mushroom poisoning - nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, headaches, sweats, extreme thirst, decreased body temperature, weak pulse, cold hands and feet. Consciousness is preserved in most cases.

- If you do not immediately see a doctor, the deaths occur.

 Mushrooms for health and beauty
 Medical and cosmetic properties of mushrooms
Mushrooms are very useful, they are the champions among the products of protein content. The mushroom contains vitamins A, B6, D, niacin, and pantothenic acid, riboflavin, niacin, antioxidants - ergotionin selenium and trace elements such as copper, potassium, phosphorus, iodine, and others.

And yet from the mushrooms do not get fat because they calorie. They contain 20 calories and no fat at all.

But American doctors went on, they argue that the mushroom diet helps lose weight. In this case, better to choose the safest mushrooms - mushrooms and prepare them to dishes without butter and sour cream. If within one year instead of meat have mushroomed, the waist is reduced by 2-3 cm or more. In fungi there is also a drop of cholesterol.

Selenium contained in mushrooms, protects cells from destruction, is the prevention of cardiovascular disease and oncology. Especially in this respect, as the doctor found useful chanterelles.

Experts say that if you have a hard and long work, then drive away the fatigue, you can use small plates of mushrooms - and then all night engaged in important affairs of the virtual world (of course, provided that in the morning you do not have to go to work and you have the opportunity to sleep till noon).

And, perhaps, few people know that fungi used in cosmetics . Masks from fungi are beneficial to the skin and help maintain long youth and elasticity of the skin, moisturizing and nourishing it.

- Nourishing Mask
Boil 4-5 edible mushrooms, chop up pulp, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream and 1 teaspoon of green tea, mix well and apply on face for 15 minutes, remove the swab moistened with warm tea leaves of green tea, 5 minutes wash with cool water.

- Rejuvenating mask
Mix 2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped boiled mushrooms with 1 teaspoon honey and 1 tbsp. spoon of aloe juice. Apply on face for 10-15 minutes, rinse with boiled water at room temperature.

- Hydrating Mask
2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped mushrooms mixed with 2 teaspoons of cucumber, grated on a fine grater and 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Apply on face for 15 minutes, crush swab dipped in warm broth of parsley or in warm water. Wash with cool mineral water without gas.

- Mask, smoothing wrinkles
2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped mushrooms mixed with 1 tbsp. spoon of carrot juice with 1-2 tablespoons of grated mild cheese. Apply on face for 15 minutes, remove the cloth, wash with warm water and then cold.
Author: Natalia Alexeeva