DOI: 10.21276/sajp

Pages: 330-333

Wild mushrooms that grow in forests and field, are of different types, and it is common for the native inhabitants to consume them. Nevertheless, mushrooms are one of the most common toxic exposures, with over 12000 mushroom exposures reported at a global report by WHO Mushrooms have been used as constituents of human diet and many primal documents written in oriental countries have already described the medicinal properties of fungal species. Some mushrooms are known because of their nutritional and therapeutically properties and that causes fatal accidents every year mainly due to misidentification.