"We use the puffball mushroom for all sorts of infection, from diaper rash to deep puncture wounds, like dogbite or knife wounds, and a wet poultice of it for gangrene and abscessed teeth."From a Native American Truth keeper, Rachel Ashley, Crow Creek South Dakota
Background: I have a Bachelors degree in Biological Science from Colorado State University, attending that institution from 1958 to 1966 with a consuming interest in bio chemistry and mycology. While there I studied with some renowned professors in the Botany and Chemistry departments. While only a Sophomore I was invited to take graduate seminars in the then budding DNA chemistry, the first ever offered at the Department. Nearing graduation I was offered a Masters Degree Scholarship with all expenses paid. This was through the old department of Health Education and Welfare. The purpose of the grant was to find a fungus organism which, like Penicillium species, could produce commercializable quantities of a product which would "lower the threshold of suggestibility in the human" , in other words, a mind altering drug. The other criteria of the program were that this compound would have only the side effect of producing a mild euphoria and could be included as an unlabelled ingredient in any food product or over the counter medical remedy.From the personal research and applications of Slim Spurling of the puffball powder from 1968 to the present