Is by the law legal selling mushrooms?

[mortinoi]

There is a yarshagumba mushroom available to buy twice a year from Nepal. This mushroom is half of catepilar an half of mushroom, called Himalayan viagra with healing benefits for kidneys and lungs. It has no side effects. Could I sell this mushroom eventually in England?

[Ethel]

There is a lot of red tape involved in selling foodstuffs, and more so if they are sold as 'pharmaceuticals' which have to be licensed.

The raw product is hugely expensive, the supply is limited and there could be problems importing it into the UK or exporting it from Nepal. Arrests are made every year in Nepal and surrounding areas for contraband yarsagumba.

By the way, it is not half a mushroom and half an insect. It is a whole mushroom growing parasitically inside a whole insect.

[buildersmate]

What a mine of info you are, Ethel. Amazing.