Medicinal Properties and Bioactive Compounds from Wild Mushrooms Native to North America
Molecules, 2021 Mushrooms, the fruiting bodies of fungi, are known for a long time in different cultures around the world to possess medicinal properties and are used to treat various human diseases.
Chow Lee, Mehreen Zeb
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Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2014 Since beginning of mankind nature is the most important source of medicines. Bioactive compounds produced by living organisms can be used directly as drugs or as lead compounds for drug development. Besides, the natural material can be used as crude drug for preparation of powder or extracts.
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Can medicinal mushrooms have prophylactic or therapeutic effect against COVID-19 and its pneumonic superinfection and complicating inflammation? [PDF]
Scand J Immunol, 2021 Medicinal mushrooms have documented effects against different diseases, including infections and inflammatory disorders. The related Basidiomycota Agaricus blazei Murill (AbM), Hericium erinaceus (HE), and Grifola frondosa (GF) have been shown to exert ...
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Traditional knowledge of medicinal mushrooms and lichens of Yuman peoples in Northern Mexico [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022 Background Mushrooms and lichens are natural therapeutic resources whose millenary importance persists in indigenous and mestizo communities of Mexico.
Joshua Anthuan Bautista-González +4 more
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Exploring the Bioactive Mycocompounds (Fungal Compounds) of Selected Medicinal Mushrooms and Their Potentials against HPV Infection and Associated Cancer in Humans [PDF]
Life, 2023 Medicinal mushrooms have been used as a medicinal tool for many centuries and, nowadays, are used in the prevention and therapy of various diseases, including as an adjunct to cancer treatment.
Tomas Rokos +5 more
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Culinary and Medicinal Mushrooms: Insight into Growing Technologies
Acta Mycologica, 2021 Humans have used mushrooms from the beginning of their history. However, during the last few decades, the market demand for these fruiting bodies has increased significantly owing to the spread in the capabilities of culinary and pharmacological ...
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Ethnomycological study of edible and medicinal mushrooms in Menge District, Asossa Zone, Benshangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2020 Background Menge District has long been inhabited by people who have a long tradition of using wild mushrooms mainly as food, source of income, and medicine.
Sitotaw R, Lulekal E, Abate D.
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Medicinal mushrooms native to Slovenia
Acta Biologica Slovenica, 2013 Slovenia with its diverse environment is home to more than 2400 fungal species out of which especially many macromycetes have for millennia been used worldwide as natural remedies.
Andrej Gregori
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Mushrooms: A Potential Option in the Management of Deficiency and Diseases in Humans
Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2023 Mushrooms play essential role in preventing and treating various health issues, including, Reducing swellings due to allergy, blood pressure, and high cholesterol level”. Mushrooms contain high quality, proteins, polysaccharides, unsaturated fatty acids,
Kanna Sai Teja +6 more
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Overview on the edible mushrooms in Egypt
Journal of Future Foods, 2023 Edible Mushrooms have been valued as a valuable food source due to its nutritional and medicinal characteristics. Edible mushrooms contain various bioactive components such as proteins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, polysaccharides, dietary fibers, amino ...
Adel F. Ahmed +4 more
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