Indian Pipe - Monotropa Uniflora

[LibertyforAll]

I have been observing and watching indian pipe grow while mushroom huntijg the past week or so.
I've always thought it an amazing plant, however I have only
just started reading about it's effects and uses.
After doing so, I made a tea using a few carefully picked plants that were boiled for approx. 15 minutes.
Drinking a small amount of this is definitely causing effects, as of nowvi can't really say what they are but I definitely feel different in a positive way.

Does anyone have experience or knowledge of this beautiful, myselterious plant?

 

[lenses]

Wow that's awesome you came across them, I had read that it was somewhat rare. I had thought it as a mushroom, but I guess its parasitic and not totally a true mushroom, considered more of a perennial?!!

What are its effects? It can't be cultivated easily and seems to be something only wildcrafters get to enjoy...

 

[%1]

Salicylic acid has been extracted from it. Its the basis for most asprin so maybe that along with other alkaloids couldve caused it.

 

[LibertyforAll]

A few days later now, I have to recommend against drinking it as a tea!
I spent the last few days with horrible unexplainable cramps and the only change in my usual life was the drinking of that tea...

Very interesting plant with strange effects, I will be studying and bioassaying it more soon.
Not rare in any way around here, I see 'em all the time, in most woods. It's actually not a mushroom at all!
It's a flowering plant - ie uniflora - it's devoid of chlorophyll and yes gets it's energy as a strange form of parasite.
Parasitic on mushrooms, that are parasitic of trees. For this reason, it is limited in habitat I'm sure, and also almost impossible to cultivate.

Also, the cramps were very unique too. My eyes became sore, and it caused headache pains to look to the sides, being the main problem I noticed.