Scientists have identified, by testing it on mice, a possible antidote to poisoning with Amanita phalloides, the deadliest poisonous fungus for which there is no cure. Antidote Name: Indocyanine green, a dye used in medical imaging diagnostics.
This substance, already authorized by the US Drug Administration (FDA), could "save many lives", according to Chinese researchers whose work appears in Nature Communications. In China, 788 deaths from ingestion of poisonous mushrooms were recorded between 2010 and 2020.