Fungotherapy (treatment with medicinal mushrooms) is a large area of medicine, which is widely used and widely used in our country. This trend originated in Ancient China and Japan, where physicians described the properties of more than a hundred mushrooms, which exceed in their healing effect even many medicinal herbs.
Methods of treatment with mushrooms
Many types of edible and poisonous fungi are used for therapeutic purposes, but most often fungotherapy uses:
- fly agarics;
- White mushrooms;
- oil;
- champignons meadow;
- peppermongers;
- a simple carton;
- Reishi;
- Shiitake ;
- morels;
- chagu;
- chanterelles;
- raincoats;
- lines, etc.
Fungi contain in large quantities amino acids, minerals, vitamins, protein, fiber, antibiotic substances and other important and active components. On the basis of mushrooms medicinal preparations of various forms are prepared for external and internal use: alcohol tinctures, aqueous extracts, ointments, capsules with a dry extract, hard balsams, etc. Treatment with these drugs should be carried out solely on the advice of an experienced fungotherapist, who, depending on the type of disease and the characteristics of the patient's body, will select the necessary drug, determine the dosage and duration of therapy.
With the help of therapeutic fungi, a variety of diseases can be cured, among which:
- joint diseases;
- gastrointestinal pathologies;
- kidney disease;
- tuberculosis;
- hypertension;
- infectious lesions;
- oncological diseases, etc.
It is worth noting that there are no contraindications for the use of therapeutic fungi, not counting individual intolerance.
Fungotherapy with oncology
Fungotherapy is very often used to treat cancer, and even in cases when official medicine is powerless, the use of fungi can bring positive results. At the same time, as studies of specialists show, almost all fungi have antitumor properties to a greater or lesser extent. They act differently: some eliminate the bloodstream that feeds the tumor, others - have a destructive effect directly on the malignant cells, the third - increase the body's immune forces for self-healing, etc.
Most often used against cancer are such fungi:
- Shiitake;
- gaiter;
- trutovik;
- raincoat;
- Cordyceps;
- Reishi;
- meytake;
- fly agaric;
- chaga.
For therapy, combinations of 2-3 species of fungi are often prescribed.
Treatment with chanterelle mushrooms
The chanterelles contain substances such as:
- organic acids;
- carotene;
- vitamins A, B, PP;
- polysaccharides;
- amino acids;
- mineral substances, etc.
With the help of these mushrooms, making on their basis tinctures and even just applying to food, treat the following pathologies:
- helminthic invasions;
- furunculosis ;
- angina;
- hepatitis;
- cancer of the liver and pancreas;
- tuberculosis;
- obesity and so on.