sentences:  It is now known that this practice can lead to the pulmonary disease lycoperdonosis, which causes symptoms similar to pneumonia.It is also used as a hemostatic agent in Chinese and Japanese folk medicines.Although "Calvatia craniiformis" is generally considered a saprobic species, in controlled laboratory conditions, an ectomycorrhizae between the fungus and American sweetgum ("Liquidambar styraciflua") was reported in a 1966 publication.