Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradition, Healing, & Culture

by Christopher Hobbs, Harriet Beinfield

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. Here is the most complete work on the cultural, health-promoting, and medicinal uses of mushrooms ever published!

Genres: Health, Herbs, Nonfiction, Nature, Medicine

251 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Owlseyes]

A national holiday (8th of december) is, certainly, a good opportunity for a hike through the mountains, some photographing of mushroom specimens and, surely, some musings on their properties; the medicinal ones. I've just borrowed from Hobbs' this table and its content is just amazing. And it relates solely to the Shiitake.


(Shiitake)

"Table 5 summarizes the important potential uses of shiitake based on studies conducted on both animals and humans".

Some of the actions are next: "anti-tumor,anti-viral,immune enhancement,lowers blood pressure & cholesterol,protects liver from immunological damage,helps produce antibodies to hepatitis B and improves liver function,protects physically active people from overwork and exhaustion; builds vitality in the elderly,inhibits growth of HIV,reduces bronchial inflammation,regulates urinary incontinence,anti-cholesteremic"*.

Several studies support these actions.

Now my collection, derived from my hiking.
(You may click on any of the photographs)


(not really, apple pie)






























































Oh, by the way, I've started collecting also their ID's.
















Quite an artistic print, right?
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*http://www.christopherhobbs.com/libra...

[Clarissa Simmens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mushrooms have always been something I've put on pizza or added to my vegetarian stir-fry. I'm an herbalist and mainly use whatever I can grow or purchase locally. Since I cannot grow mushrooms in Florida, I've ignored them over the years. I specifically was looking for one type that helps thyroid and arthritis so purchased this book for my kindle fire hd. I was really worried that the illustrations would be impossible but they are surprisingly good. Also, navigation between the chapters for referencing is so simple. I would much rather use my kindle but until now have been wary of using it for non-fiction books. So I not only bought an excellent book about medical mushrooms that answered my questions, but I have also learned that the kindle fire will handle it beautifully. The book includes information about Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine usage, nutrition, scientific research and monographs on the various medicinal fungi. Finally, the affordable price adds to my recommendation of this book. As always, look inside before buying.

[Tracey]

One of the few guides to the medicinal properties of mushrooms which have a major use in cancer prevention and treatment.

[mohammad arefipour]

introduce medicinal, hallucinogenic and edible mushrooms

[Margarat · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very useful, well researched book. If you're interested in good references for medicinal mushrooms this book should be part of your collection.

[Steven Berbec · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative and heavily researched, but a bit dated. Still a good resource to use to familiarize yourself with common medicinal mushrooms.