Mushrooms are Medicine!
Learn what the scientific community has been discovering for the last 30 years about mushrooms and toxicology. Some articles and books are listed below.
A polysaccharide-peptide with mercury clearance activity from dried fruiting bodies of Maitake mushroom Grifola frondosa
Weiwei Zhang,#1,2Xuezhen Jiang,#2Shuang Zhao,#3Xiaojie Zheng,2Jin Lan,1Hexiang Wang,2 and Tzi Bun Ng4 Mercury is considered to be “a global pollutant” and raises concern worldwide. Once mercury enters the body, it will be distributed all over the body but will accumulate in the brain, kidney and liver. To date, no substance originating from edible...
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Lead detoxification of edible fungi Auricularia auricula and Pleurotus ostreatus: the purification of the chelation substances and their effects on rats (Wood Ear and Oyster Mushrooms)
Weiwei Zhang,# 1 , 2 , † Xiaojie Zheng,# 2 , † Xiangdong Chen, 1 Xuezhen Jiang, 2 Hexiang Wang, 2 , * and Guoqing Zhan Keywords: polysaccharide-peptide, lead clearance, chelation, antidotes, edible fungi Abstract Lead is a global pollutant that causes widespread concern. When a lead enters the body, it is distributed throughout the body and accumulates in the brain, bone, and soft tissues such...
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