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- Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Nov 9, 2009
The best-selling book on "popular mycology," Mycelium Running, would be a useful reference book in every home, especially to anyone involved in...
Category: Gardening
- Medicinal Fungi in History
Nov 2, 2009
5,300 years ago, an injured and starving man from Val Venosta, Italy, fled across an Alpine glacier to escape pursuers. But his enemies caught up...
Category: Nutrition
- Agarikon (Fomitopsis officinalis) - Tree Fungus with Medicinal Aspirations
Oct 27, 2009
In a fascinating broadcast on National Public Radio, internationally renowned medicinal mushroom expert Paul Stamets tells his story of discovering...
Category: Nutrition
- Agarikon Mushroom - Tree Fungus with Medicinal Aspirations
Oct 20, 2009
Interviewed on NPR, world leading medicinal mushroom specialist Paul Stamets relates how he came to discover the healing properties of agarikon, an...
Category: Nutrition
- Hemlock Conk Loaded with Antioxidants
Sep 11, 2009
In 1999, the tree conk Hemlock Varnish Shelf was found to possess "the strongest antioxidant activity of five species of Ganoderma [Reishi]...
Category: Nutrition
- Fomes officinalis (Agarikon) Medicinal Mushroom Saved from Extinction
Aug 31, 2009
The medicinal mushroom Agarikon (Fomes officinalis) can live for 50 years or more, making it one of the longest living perennial mushrooms in the...
Category: Nutrition
- Zhu Ling Mushroom - A Chinese Pharmacy Staple
Aug 31, 2009
Go into a Chinese apothecary and ask for Zhu Ling and they will bring out a container with thin slivers of dried medicinal mushrooms. Zhu Ling is...
Category: Nutrition
- Birch Polypore Extract Used for Intestinal Parasites during Stone Ages
Aug 30, 2009
As suggested by its name, Birch Polypore grows on birch trees, living or dead. It grows around the world wherever birch trees are found.
Category: Nutrition
- Siberian Chaga Used in Russia as Cancer Drug
Aug 26, 2009
Chaga grows as a black cankerous mass on birch, dead or living. It may rarely be found on beech, elm, ash or hornbeam as well.
Category: Nutrition
- Common Coriolus Mushroom vs. Cancer
Aug 21, 2009
Coriolus versicolor may well be the most common mushroom in the world. It grows on dead wood from the rain forest to the taiga.
Category: Nutrition
- Cordyceps sinensis - Medicinal Mushroom for Stamina and Strength
Aug 20, 2009
From high elevations of the Tibetan plateau comes a minute fungus known as Cordyceps sinensis. It parasitizes on caterpillars and sprouts out of...
Category: Nutrition
- The Extraordinary Siberian Chaga
Aug 19, 2009
Chaga grows as a black cankerous mass on birch, dead or living. It may rarely be found on beech, elm, ash or hornbeam as well.
Category: Nutrition
- Nerve Regeneration by Wild Mushroom Hericium erinaceus
Aug 18, 2009
Out of the kitchen, into the pharmacy, the gourmet mushroom Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus) with its unique flavor resembling lobster or shrimp...
Category: Nutrition
- Gourmet Mushroom Lion's Mane Supports Nerve Regeneration
Aug 16, 2009
Out of the kitchen, into the pharmacy, the gourmet mushroom Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus) with its unique flavor resembling lobster or shrimp...
Category: Nutrition
- Shiitake as a Medicinal Mushroom
Aug 12, 2009
Tell Americans that a dish contains "mushrooms" and their minds automatically jump to button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus), which have been grown...
Category: Nutrition
- Maitake Extract Research Summary
Aug 1, 2009
Considered a gourmet mushroom, Maitake is also an important medicinal mushroom in Oriental medicine. It is especially known for its high content of...
Category: Nutrition
- Many Uses of Ganoderma Extract
Aug 1, 2009
"Mushroom of Immortality" may not be a literally accurate nickname since nobody has ever been known to live forever. But Ganoderma extract has for...
Category: Nutrition
- Medicinal Mushroom Hot Water Extract vs. Alcohol Extract
Jul 15, 2009
Medicinal mushrooms have been immensely popular in Asia for millennia. Today, Americans are waking up to these powerful nutraceuticals. In the wake...
Category: Nutrition
- Medicinal Mushroom Alcohol Extract vs. Hot Water Extract
Jul 2, 2009
Medicinal mushrooms have been immensely popular in Asia for millennia. Today, Americans are waking up to these powerful nutraceuticals. In the wake...
Category: Nutrition
- Historic Use of Mushrooms in Spiritual Practices
Jun 19, 2009
For at least 7,000 years, humans have used mushrooms for spiritual rituals. Pre-historic cave paintings in Tassili, Algeria, from 5,000 B.C. depict...
Category: Religion and Spirituality
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