Medicinal Mushrooms III Mushrooms have been valued throughout the world as both food and medicine for thousands of years. In virtually every culture people enjoy hunting for wild mushrooms. Europeans have always appreciated their gastronomic value. In Japan, pushcart vendors on the streets still sell medicinal mushrooms to the average citizen who uses them to

Medicinal Mushrooms II Mushrooms have been valued as both food and medicine throughout the world for thousands of years, but until recently, many in the West associated all mushrooms with poison. The recent surge of Western interest in medicinal mushrooms shows that this attitude may be changing, however. Japanese products containing LEM, a polysaccharide-rich extract

Medicinal Mushrooms I Mushrooms have been valued as both food and medicine for thousands of years. Throughout the world, many people enjoy hunting for wild mushrooms, delighting in the variety of shapes, sizes, and colors exhibited by these “flowers of the fall.” Europeans have always appreciated the gastronomic value of wild mushrooms. In Japan, pushcart

Fungi are extremely ancient organisms, and tremendous diversity exists in many habitats throughout the world. Most of the scientific work performed on fungi with regard to their medicinal and healing effects can be thought of in two categories: antibiotics and immunomodulators. A landmark discovery in human history was that various soil fungi contain powerful antibiotics,

The collection of herb articles below were written by Christopher Hobbs. Some of the articles have been previously published and others have been written exclusively for the website. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Burdock: A Lion in Porcupines Clothes Cayenne: This Popular Herb is Hot Echinacea: From Native American Pancea to Modern Phytopharmaceutical Echinacea and