About medicinal mushrooms
Healing fungi contain hundreds of active ingredients
The total number of all substances in an average medicinal mushroom ranges between one hundred and several hundred, and only those in higher concentrations are investigated. It is only in recent decades that science has taken a serious “bite” into the study of the healing properties of fungi, aware that they hold the answer to many medical questions and that fungi offer evolutionarily ready-made solutions useful to the human body.
Mushrooms as food and medicine: a rich source of nutrients and bioactive compounds with health benefits
Throughout history, mushrooms have been used as food and medicine. They are a rich source of nutrients and bioactive compounds, such as carbohydrates, fibre, proteins, vitamins and minerals, and have medicinal properties, such as antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidant, anticancer and others.
Mushrooms are rich in protein and carbohydrate content, while they are low in lipid content. They are also rich in many essential unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic acid and oleic acids, which are necessary for the proper functioning of the body. In addition, they contain many essential minerals that are responsible for the proper functioning of body cells (metabolic processes in them).
Mushrooms, unlike plants, do not have chlorophyll, so they grow on decaying organic substances, rich in lignin, cellulose and other important carbohydrates. These growth substrates also enrich them with pharmacological properties and are one of the causes of pharmacological differences within the same species.
Mushrooms metabolites strengthen immunity and have antitumour properties
Mushrooms possess medicinal properties because of the presence of different types of primary and secondary metabolites, as well. The most important primary metabolites in medicinal mushrooms are polysaccharides, part of the Beta-glucan family, which strengthen and modulate cellular immunity and therefore possess antitumor properties. Biologically active polysaccharides have unique structures and differ from strain to strain and from species to species.
They are soluble in water, and their extraction is easiest to do with hot water, as a tea (water extract). There are other secondary metabolites that exhibit various pharmacological activities in mushrooms as well, such as glycoproteins, peptides, antibiotics, lactones, terpenoids, alkaloids, hydrolytic and oxidative enzymes.
Healing fungi are highly compatible with our immunity system
Mushrooms and humans share about 30% of the DNA and by cellular structure, the mushrooms are much closer to us than plants (the metabolic proteins of humans and fungi are similar), so we assume that complex synthesized mushroom products more accurately target our illnesses than medicines derived from plants — we’re more compatible.
Because of this compatibility, some fungal infections are difficult to eradicate, because their cells are similar to human and are easily masked.
Research of traditional medicinal fungi confirms ancient knowledge about their healing properties
The momentum of the research on mushroom medicinal benefits came most from far Eastern countries. In this cultural milieu where the tradition is not automatically regarded as primitive but rather represents a reason for the research, there has been a fusion of modern science and experience from a thousand years of practice. Thanks to these efforts, the world has rediscovered some old secrets, but more thoroughly and clearly.
The growing list of medicinal mushrooms today counts more than 300 species. Some of them boost immunity & balance energy, while some deal with serious health issues.
Until about ten years ago, there was a general list of medicinal mushrooms of about seventy names, which has grown to over 300 today, while leading researchers in the area now claim that there practically are no higher mushrooms which at the same time don’t have medicinal properties.
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Healing fungi from natural forests contain hundreds of active ingredients with health benefits from immunity-boosting and energy balancing to antioxidant, antiviral, antibacterial and anticancer properties. They are invaluable helpers and we should use them to maintain balance and health.
Mushrooms are not for children
All available studies of the effects of medicinal mushrooms have always included adults so we cannot know how a child’s organism would react to individual species and concentration intensities.
Since our intestinal microbiome develops intensely until the 18th year, stabilizing fully even later, the immunology of children is more complex and difficult to predict. Therefore, we do not have enough knowledge about the effects that the medicinal mushrooms would on the younger ones. It is known that by school-age children tend to digest mushrooms more difficulty in their diet and it is not advisable to give them larger quantities, especially species heavier for digestion.