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I posted before about medicinal mushrooms and wanted to post again because at www.seachangeforlife.com we now have a great new mushroom blend called MushroomBoost. It has 500mg cordyceps, 250mg maitake, 250mg reishi, and 250mg shiitake. You can't ask for a better blend. If you have never taken medicinal mushrooms you might want to try them. I have found great benefit in them.

CORDYCEPS MUSHROOM

Cordyceps mushroom is sweet and bland in taste and warming in action. It strengthens immunity and fortifies and heals the lungs and kidneys.

Rating: GOLD (meaning one of the best)

Safety Issues: None known

Starting Dosage: Dried powder: 2 grams two to three times per day or 1:5 tincture: 10-15 drops two to three times per day (I find tinctures very easy to use because you can put them in a glass of juice - Barb)

Winter worm summer flower is the direct translation from Chinese of this amazing mushroom that grows out of caterpillar larvae in the Himalayas. TCM (tradtional Chinese medicine) doctors use it medicinally to treat chronic cough, wheezing from deficiency, EMPHYSEMA, and consumptive cough. Because it tonifies both Yin and Yang (what Chinese medicine is based on), it is very safe and can be taken over a long period of time to stimulate endocrine function, reduce fatigue, and calm nervousness. Cordyceps was reportedly used at the Olympics by Chinese women's track and field teams to enhance performance when they set nine world records. From the scientific point of view, attention has focused on chaga's (another type of medicinal mushroom) immune-enhancing and cancer-fighting properties. At our clinic, we find Cordyceps most useful for treating LUNG and kidney weakness of any variety. We also use it with other medicinal mushrooms after cancer therapy to strengthen the immune system. Although, it is clear that similar nutrients in most medicinal mushrooms are generally found to stimulate immunity, it is also obvious that various mushrooms have different actions when given to living beings.

Cordyceps, like many medicinal mushrooms, contains complex sugars(especially beta 1,3 glucan) and other nutrients (nucleosides, triterpenoids) which seem to strongly nourish and activate various components of the immune system, useful in treating cancer, chronic fatigue, and other immune disorders (Borchers et al, 1999, Nakamura et al, 1999)
It also seems to have value in treating nephritis (Lin et al, 1999; Li et al, 1996)
Cordyceps may help the immune system recognize tumors that otherwise might escape immune surveillance (Chiu et al, 1998).
Other benefits include positive effects on the cardiovascular and nervous systems and an antiaging effect (Zhu et al, 1998)

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Here are the descriptions of the other three mushrooms in the Mushroom Boost product.

Maitake Mushrooms

Uses: Helps control diabetes; helps lose weight; lowers HDL ('bad)" cholesterol; anti-HIV, helps high blood pressure, anti-prostrate and bladder cancer; protects the liver; immunomodulator.

Active ingredients: Beta-glucans, fractions D and MD; Grifon-D.



Reishi Mushrooms

Reishi has been called the king of herbal medicines, with many herbalists ranking it above ginseng.

Uses: Analgesic; anti allergic activity; expectorant and antitussive properties; bronchitis-preventative effect; inducing regeneration of bronchial epithelium; anti-inflammatory; antibacterial against Staphlococci, Streptococci, and Streplococcus pneumoniae; antioxidant; antitumor activity; enhanced natural killer cell (NK) activity; and increased production of interleukin-1 and interleukin-2; antiviral effect; enhances bone marrow nucleated cell proliferation; cardiotonic action, lowering serum cholesterol levels with no effect on triglycerides, enhancing myocardial metabolism, and lowering blood pressure; anti-HIV activity; general immunopotentiation.

Active Ingredients: Beta- and hetero-beta-glucon; ling zhi-8 protein; ganodermic acids (triterpenes)



Shiitake Mushrooms

Uses: Major anti-cancer agent in Japan (Lentinan); anti-viral (HBV-HIV); anti-bacterial (strep throat; fights caries); protects the liver; lowers cholesterol; helps control high blood pressure.

Active ingredients: 1-3 beta-glucans; polysaccharides KS-2; glycoproteins (LEM,LAP); eritadenine;iron, niacin, vitamins B1 and B2.