Info on using whole medicinal mushrooms

[Guest guest]

This is my opinion based on facts from discussion with other health care

professionals and researchers.

I have read numerous research papers and clinical studies on many species of

medicinal mushrooms from researchers from around the world. My conclusion is

that most miss the boat when it comes to looking at the all of the nutrition

from medicinal mushrooms. 99% of these studies state that they take an extract

to obtain a few chemicals or molecules from the mushroom but they leave behind

all of the other wonderful chemistry, minerals and vitamins that are in

medicinal mushrooms. This is why I see better results from using the whole

product as a food or ground up powder.

Medicinal mushrooms have thousands of different chemistry with many minerals,

vitamins, amino acids and enzymes that are helpful to the human body. Not

understanding all of them should not be a reason for not using them. We have

been eating them raw for thousands of years why not provide them as a powder so

a large enough dose is available for all to benefit.

Medicinal mushrooms have an established history of use in traditional oriental

therapies. Modern clinical practice in Japan, China, Korea, parts of Europe and

other Asian countries continue to rely on mushroom-derived preparations, they

say derived, not mushrooms in the whole form. Medicinal effects have been

demonstrated for many traditionally used mushrooms (Ooi and Liu 2000), including

extracts of species from genera Auricularia, Flammulina, Ganaderma, Grifola,

Hericium, Lentinus (Lentinula), Pleurotus, Trametes (Coriolus), Schizophyllum,

and Tremella (Wasser 2002).

I see that many of these researchers have a hopeful idea to find one chemical or

molecule, test it and then, if it works then to alter/change it by adding other

molecules to it, so they can patent this new substance and call it a drug. The

motive is the ($$$$), but they end up with a product with poor results for the

consumer who is suffering from a disease, and at a high cost to the consumer in

the hundreds or thousands of dollars. This just does not make sense and there

are more and more caring health care professionals who agree with me.

Over the past four decades, scientific and medical studies in Japan, China,

Korea, Europe and more recently the United States have increasingly demonstrated

the potent and unique chemistry of mushroom extracted for the prevention and

treatment of cancer but with no enormous immediate result.

What we have seen, is wonderful results in boosting the bodies human system from

the consumption of several rare strains of various species of medicinal

mushrooms that were grown at the Pegasus Biochemistry. They figured out how to

cultivate them commercially and safely, using special substrates (the food) for

the various strains to grow on. There is an enormous amount of beneficial

chemistry that comes from these mushrooms which has surpasses my expectations.

I have personally witnessed several tumor and cancer patients with stage 4

cancers achieve total remission. Amazing but I see that the whole mushrooms are

used and large doses - 20 to 60 grams a day were consumed with food in order to

get the result but with no side effects. The web sites are at:

www.pegasusbp.org A non profit.