Reishi: The Brilliant Mushroom

'Reishi is found in six colours: red, white, black blue, yellow, and purple but it is the RED that is most prized and medicinally effective and studied.

Reishi is considered to be one of the greatest of the traditional Chinese medicines, ranking up there with ginseng.

GreenMedInfo has at least 46 abstracts listed for the reishi mushroom.'


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The Health Benefits of Mushroom Consumption

 

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'Mushrooms contain some of the most potent natural medicines on the planet. Of the 140,000 species of mushroom-forming fungi, science is familiar with only 10 percent, according to world-renown mycologist Paul Stamets, who has written six books on the topic.
About 100 species of mushrooms are being studied for their health-promoting benefits. Of those hundred, about a half dozen really stand out for their ability to deliver a tremendous boost to your immune system.

It's important to eat only organically grown mushrooms because they absorb and concentrate whatever they grow in — good OR bad. This is what gives mushrooms their potency. Mushrooms are known to concentrate heavy metals, as well as air and water pollutants, so healthy growing conditions is a critical factor.' 

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Beginner's Guide to Edible Mushrooms as Medicine

'Although mushrooms get good press as a low-calorie, high fiber, low-cholesterol, low-sodium decoration for your pizza, there is much more to the mushroom story than that.

Mushrooms have been valued for their culinary and medicinal properties for thousands of years and the Egyptians reserved them by law for the pharaoh. Hieroglyphics dating back 4,600 years depict their royal ancestry as well as their association with immortality.

In ancient times, mushrooms were not cultivated but grew wild, and always carried the risk that the wrong (i.e., poisonous) variety had been gathered intentionally or unintentionally, as the Roman Emperor Claudius found when his mushroom dinner became his last meal.'


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6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World

He forgot the 7th way — using psilocybin, humans can alter their consciousness and emerge more clear headed and focused. ~ Ed.(Food Freedom)

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East Asian Mushroom Doubles Life Expectancy of Cancer Patients

'There's hope for liver cancer patients. And it doesn't come in the form of toxic chemicals or invasive surgery...which kill you before the cancer does. This remedy is an all-natural compound. It boosts the immune system and can double your survival rate after surgery. And if you don't have liver cancer, it can keep you from getting it.' 


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David Wolfe on the #1 Cancer Fighting Mushroom

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