Red ghost pen is a fungus, known as the red ghost pen is actually related to its appearance, the red ghost pen is a kind of appearance looks very bright red fungus, the whole shape is very slender, the top of the head because there is a black mucus, it looks like the tip of the pen, because of the black mucus will emit a chicken poop like odor, so this kind of fungus is known as the red ghost pen.

We study the nature class know that the more brightly colored fungus it is the more toxic, then can not be practical, otherwise very easy to poison, so the red ghost pen is also often people have toxicity, can not be eaten. Red ghost pen and most of the fungus grows in the same damp environment, because its name would have let people fear three times, plus it emits a stench, people often run into is far from avoiding. But in recent years it is often said that the red ghost pen can be eaten, and the flavor is particularly tender, as long as the red ghost pen black mucus cleaned according to the general cooking method can be seen. It is said that married men can eat the red ghost pen can tonic kidney, so many rural people gradually go to dig the red ghost pen back to eat.

In the "National Herbal Medicine Compendium" book records, red ghost pen has medicinal value, with the role of the swelling dispersal of toxicity and muscle, often through the external use to achieve, and the book is also particularly noted red ghost pen toxicity can not be eaten, can only be taken externally. Once a reporter visited the old Chinese medicine, the old Chinese medicine are denied the red ghost pen has the effect of tonic kidney aphrodisiacs, and they unanimously said that less than a last resort is not the use of the red ghost pen as a drug treatment.

It can be seen that the ancient people named the red ghost pen fungus is not without reason, which is to let us be away from the red ghost pen do not easily touch, eat and so on. China has always been on the ? Ghost? The word is very taboo, can be used in has been plant fungus on nature has its reasoning, is just hope that people can lead to attention do not eat harmful to their own. As for the folk rumors of the effects of kidney aphrodisiacs or to consult the relevant physician, do not easily listen to rumors, or the consequences are unimaginable.