Different Native American Tribes used varieties of Puffball mushrooms to stop bleeding or to help heal sores and burns. Modern science has found them to be antibacterial, antifungal, and antimicrobial. PS: About 50 puffball species hail from the Lycoperdon genus of life. Translated from the Greek, “Lyco” means wolf, and “perdon” means “to break wind.” Yup. It’s the wolf fart mushroom. (source: National Park Service) #puffball #VCCDillinois #VCCD #exploreIllinois #getoutdoors #getoutside #Natives

Quick update on Madison "Lexi" since Pamela made a late night visit to check on her. We hope to spring her out of the hospital tomorrow pending her blood work results. She is not out of the woods yet but she is improving and was able to walk in on her own! She even did it quick video call with our rescue team! She had become very anemic with extremely low RBC count plus a high WBC count. This is possibly due to the steroids and caused her to have bleeding within her GI tract. At this point we ar