Description

From the back cover:

Medicinal Mushrooms is a modern handbook for exploring and understanding the rich traditions of healing fungi in Eastern and Western cultures. Author Christopher Hobbs thoroughly documents and details the nutritional and health benefits of over 100 species of edible fungi. Medicinal Mushrooms is the most complete work on the cultural, health-promoting, and medicinal uses of mushrooms ever published!

Learn how medicinal mushrooms can:

-Help prevent and treat cancer
-Benefit people with HIV/AIDS
-Assist with heart disease
-Strengthen immune function
-Nourish eyes & digestion
-Heal skin ailments

“For the Western herbalist, the subject of medicinal mushrooms has remained an arcane purview relegated to history, or if in a modern context, to relatively obscure references – mostly in Asian languages. Christopher Hobbs has opened new vistas in Western herbal literature, by providing a comprehensive, accessible, and scientifically accurae portrayal of the medicinal value of fungi. Medicinal Mushrooms is a portal into a fascinating, often neglected world.” – Steven Foster

• Paperback: 251 pages
• Publisher: Botanica Press (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570671435