Abstract: Poisonous mushrooms have always been a threat to human health,every year there are a large number of reports of mushroom poisoning.Poisonous mushroom has aroused attention of more and more researchers,especially on toxin components in poisonous mushrooms,poisoning mechanism and toxin application.According to the poisoning symptoms of poisonous mushroom,this paper summarized toxins in the known poisoning symptoms of toxic mushrooms and described the activity of these toxins in liver and kidney poisoning,neurotoxicity,gastrointestinal poisoning and other poisoning.Further,the prospects in the application of poisonous mushrooms and toxins were discussed.

Key words: poisonous mushroom, toxins, poisoning symptoms, activity