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Medicinal mushrooms: Clinical perspective and challenges
Drug Discovery Today, 2022Mushrooms are valued by humans worldwide as food, but also for their medicinal properties. Over 130 medicinal effects of mushrooms have been reported, including anti-diabetic, antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, prebiotic, immunomodulating, anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular benefits.
Sujogya Kumar, Panda, Walter, Luyten
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Medicinal components in Termitomyces mushrooms
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2018Termitomyces is a genus of edible mushrooms commonly consumed in Africa and Asia among the mushrooms collected from the wild. Termitomyces mushrooms grow as symbionts in the termite nests, where they produce various enzymes to help termites digest lignocellulosic substrates.
Huei-Mei, Hsieh, Yu-Ming, Ju
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A Medicinal Mushroom: Phellinus Linteus
Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2008Phellinus Linteus (Berkeley & M. A. Curtis) Teng (PL) is a medicinal mushroom that has been practiced in oriental countries for centuries to prevent ailments as diverse as gastroenteric dysfunction, diarrhea, haemorrhage and cancers. In an effort to translate the Asian traditional medicines into western-accepted therapies, scientists have demonstrated ...
Tongbo, Zhu +2 more
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Downstream Processing of Medicinal Mushroom Products
2022Medicinal mushrooms are higher fungi that consist of ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, and imperfect fungi. They have been long used as tonic and traditional medicine in East Asia, Europe, and Africa. Contemporary pharmacological researches have revealed that they possess a wide spectrum of bioactivity due to their production of a variety of bioactive ...
Haiyan, Luo, Yingbo, Li
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Progress in Nutrition, 2010
Summary Mushrooms have been used as medicines by humans for 5,000 years or more. This article deals with five healing mushrooms: maitake, reishi/lingzhi, shiitake, Cordyceps sinensis, and Trametes versicolor [yunzhi]. Many claims are made for medicinal mushrooms. Out of sheer enthusiasm and/or for commercial motives, authors make exaggerated claims. No
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Summary Mushrooms have been used as medicines by humans for 5,000 years or more. This article deals with five healing mushrooms: maitake, reishi/lingzhi, shiitake, Cordyceps sinensis, and Trametes versicolor [yunzhi]. Many claims are made for medicinal mushrooms. Out of sheer enthusiasm and/or for commercial motives, authors make exaggerated claims. No
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Medicinal Mushrooms: Past, Present and Future
2022The survival of Homo sapiens is continually under threat from agencies capable of inflicting calamitous damage to the overall health and well-being of humankind. One strategy aimed at combatting this threat is focused on medicinal mushrooms and derivatives thereof. Mushrooms themselves have been consumed as part of the human diet for centuries, whereas
Shuting, Chang, John, Buswell
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Antioxidant Properties of Several Medicinal Mushrooms
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2002Three species of medicinal mushrooms are commercially available in Taiwan, namely, Ganoderma lucidum (Ling-chih), Ganoderma tsugae (Sung-shan-ling-chih), and Coriolus versicolor (Yun-chih). Methanolic extracts were prepared from these medicinal mushrooms and their antioxidant properties studied. At 0.6 mg/mL, G. lucidum, G.
Jeng-Leun, Mau +2 more
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Medicinal Benefits of the Mushroom Ganoderma
1992Publisher Summary This chapter discusses medicinal benefits of the Mushroom Ganoderma . Recently, the fruit body and liquid-cultured mycelium of Ganoderma have been reported to contain polysaccharides which inhibit the growth of tumors. Identified as glucans, one of the major constituents in the cell wall of fungi, they appear to increase bodily ...
S C, Jong, J M, Birmingham
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Medicinal Mushrooms with Antiallergic Activities
2017Allergies are an increasing problem worldwide, and new strategies for prophylaxis and therapy are urgently needed. Medicinal mushrooms present such an opportunity. Antiallergic activities have been found for Agaricus subrufescens, Armillaria ostoyae, Flammulina velutipes, Ganoderma lucidum and G.
Simon Merdivan, Ulrike Lindequist
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