We've all been exposed to or cooked with a few of the most commonly used culinary mushrooms like portabella white button, and so on.
But, there's a whole class of mushrooms that are known as medicinal mushrooms. the medicinal healing mushrooms are not meant to enhance flavor, although some of them can be used in recipes. They are usually consumed in tea form, tinctures and extracts, as well as in capsules in the form of powders.
The medicinal mushrooms that are used include reishi mushroom, agaricus mushroom (or agaricus blazei) and maitake, shitake, and coriolus mushroom. There are many others however these are a few of the most popular.
The medicinal mushrooms like these share a lot with humans in terms of their chemical and genetic structure. Numerous scientists believe that mushrooms are more similar to humans genetically than every other plant.
Given this fact, specific "higher level" mushrooms, commonly referred to as "medicinal mushrooms" (NOT magic mushrooms! ) they can help to heal and alter the body, emotions, mind, and spirit of we humans who consume these mushrooms.
Reishi mushroom is one of the most popular healing mushrooms from China (though it is also found in other regions of the globe as well). Reishi mushroom is often described as "the mushroom of immortality" since it can be taken everyday as a tonic "herb" and it useful in extending life.
Reishi mushroom is frequently used (in the East) as an immune system stimulant by people with HIV and cancer. Reishi is also believed to ease inflammation, reduce fatigue, assist in the healing of infections within the body, and to aid in relaxing and calming the mind, allowing people to relax and connect to Spirit easier.
Maitake mushroom is another one of the most powerful medicinal mushrooms around the globe. Maitake is used culinarily as well as medicinally, and is a very powerful source of beta-glucan polysaccharides--potent immune system healing chemicals.
Maitake is a mushroom that can be used in the prevention of cancer, and also in helping to control diabetes and high cholesterol. Maitake boosts the activities in the naturally-killer cells of the body, which helps eliminate the body of issues with the immune system.
There are several more common varieties of medicinal mushrooms and I've provided more detailed descriptions of them in my blog, which can be found below.
Just one final note in the event that you're contemplating a look at the healing properties from medicinal mushrooms, if you supplement them with an Vitamin C supplier (preferably an organic plant-based Vitamin C sources), you can triple Magic mushrooms canada the efficacy of both medicinal mushrooms AND triple the efficacy of Vitamin C! This is a powerful guideline for having the best health you've ever had!