Mycotherapy is the modern knowledge of medicinal mushrooms for maintaining health and preventing diseases.
Mycotherapy includes modern research in the field of healing with medicinal mushrooms, knowledge of medicinal mushrooms in Chinese and integrative medicine.
Mycotherapy uses natural methods to maintain health. These include dietary changes, mushroom supplements and lifestyle methods. However, mycotherapy works well in conjunction with traditional medicine. This combined approach provides the most appropriate and effective treatment for your specific needs. The goal is to restore and maintain optimal health using the best of both worlds.
Fungi
are one of the most important sections of nature. Without fungi, there would be no plant or animal life on earth. Fungi created the conditions for the beginning of the spread of plants and then animals on land.
The most important event in pharmaceuticals of the 20th century is considered to be the discovery of penicillin – an antibiotic. Penicillin obtained from mold fungi (Penicilium) saved many millions of lives.
Fungi are divided into groups depending on how they feed:
- parasitic
- saprotrophic
- symbiotic.
The same is with the effect on the human body:
- fungi act as symbionts and, thus, in accordance with the biological processes of the body, harmonize, nourish and care for the body.
- act parasitically, especially in oncological diseases, where they can “parasitize” on growing cells in such a way as to help the body destroy them.
- have a saprotrophic effect – they are able to remove dead metabolic residues from the body, as well as viruses, bacteria and other “disorders”.
We have a lot in common with fungi
Fungi are not plants but not animals either.
Humans and plants share 30 to 40% of the same genome.
The human genome and the fungal genome coincide more than 70%.
The fungus has a cell wall made of chitin like insects (the plant has a cell wall made of cellulose). The mushroom accumulates nutrition in the form of glycogen, just like animals and humans (plants accumulate nutrition in the form of starch).
Mushrooms can be edible and poisonous, medicinal and hallucinogenic. There is a theory of the development of the human brain (the emergence of figurative thinking) thanks to hallucinogenic mushrooms. In ancient times, before the advent of religions, hallucinogenic mushrooms were usually consumed only by shamans or tribal leaders. In many religions, mushrooms have a sacred meaning.
The largest number of edible and hallucinogenic mushrooms grow in Africa. The largest mushroom grows in Africa and is called Phlibopus (the cap can be more than 1 m in diameter).
Mushrooms can be unicellular: yeast, and multicellular: cap mushrooms (which we collect in the forest) and mold mushrooms.
Almost all medicinal mushrooms have five basic medicinal properties.
Mushrooms contain substances with a certain activity:
- anticancer activity
- antioxidant activity
- anti-inflammatory activity
- stimulation of immunity.
- antibacterial activity (mushrooms and bacteria are eternal enemies)
Chaga, reishi, cordyceps, hericium, shiitake, coriolus, etc. have all five activities.
Mycotherapy adheres to the philosophy of Holism.
Mycotherapy is a comprehensive, holistic approach to healing with natural mushroom complexes.
Any treatment protocol should begin with monitoring the consumption of sufficient amounts of water per day and the presence of movement – physical activity.
A person is considered holistically:
- Physiology (the work of all organs)
- Psychology (psychological state)
- Mental state (harmonious state of body and spirit).
The task of mycotherapy is to choose a comprehensive solution covering all aspects of health.
The philosophy of holism is reflected in the activities of a nurse in that she considers a person as a whole set of bio-psycho-social aspects, and not just as a carrier of a certain disease. Accordingly, her job is to satisfy his physical (biological), mental and social needs, based on her capabilities.
The medical interpretation of holism is that living organisms consist of many parts interacting with each other. A malfunction of one causes a malfunction of the entire system.
The predecessor of modern medicine was herbalism and shamanism. People have been treated with natural remedies for many thousands of years. Just a few decades ago, official medicine “treated” people with high radiation, opium, etc.
Mycotherapy is trustworthy based on the thousand-year experience of Eastern medicine.
Intestine – production of neurotransmitters: serotonin – the hormone of happiness. Poor bowel function provokes endogenous anxiety.
There are a huge number of nerve endings in the intestine. Changing your diet can normalize your health.
Chaga is the most important mushroom that will help restore the gastrointestinal tract.
Chaga is the main mushroom that restores the digestive system. Constant long-term use of chaga is the key to recovery. Any health or treatment program should start with chaga!
Problems of modern medicine
In recent decades, complications of drug therapy have become one of the main health problems worldwide. They occupy 4-6th place among causes of death in the USA and lead to the death of 100-200 thousand patients annually. In France in 1997, complications of drug therapy were observed in 1,317,650 patients, of which 33% were serious and 1.4% were fatal. The number of patients hospitalized due to side effects of drugs in the USA is 3.5-8.8 million people annually. In some countries, it reaches 10-20% of the total number of patients undergoing inpatient treatment, in particular in Norway 11.5%, in France 10-13%, in the UK 16%. During inpatient treatment, side effects of drugs occur in 1.5-35% of patients and in 0.32% of cases lead to death.
Efficiency of myco dietary supplements
Myco pharmaceutical preparations from medicinal mushrooms are gaining popularity all over the world. Based on medicinal mushrooms, excellent preventive drugs and second-line drugs are created. Mushroom preparations in combination with traditional drugs reduce the toxic effect on the body and enhance the effect of the drug.
Mushrooms have a cumulative effect and the first results of taking mushrooms appear in 3-4 weeks.
There are about 22,000 enzymes in the human body and each enzyme activates a certain process in the body. The composition of medicinal mushrooms is extremely rich in unique substances. Mushrooms are able to trigger enzymatic processes, which leads to human health improvement.
Medicinal mushrooms in Chinese medicine
In Eastern medicine, medicinal mushrooms have been used for over 3,000 years. In Chinese medicine, treatment with mushrooms is given the main place.
Each medicinal mushroom in Chinese medicine has its own great significance and application.
Chinese medicine is primarily prevention and an integrated approach to human health. In Chinese medicine, diagnosis of diseases is based on a visual examination of the color of the tongue, eyes, skin. Taste sensations, acidity, etc. are checked.
Physiological and psychological factors are taken into account when prescribing treatment.
Five elements in Chinese medicine: fire, earth, metal, water, wood;
The elements create harmony and personify the coordinated work of all organs and healthy metabolism of body cells.
The main mushrooms in Chinese medicine are: Cordyceps, Chaga, Hericium, Reishi, Coriolus, etc.
Thanks to Cordyceps, China won the 2012 Olympics. Athletes were given increased doses of Cordyceps 2 years before the Olympics.
Cordyceps are not shown in anti-doping tests.
Chaga is the main mushroom for maintaining immunity and any treatment protocol begins with Chaga. Chaga restores the gastrointestinal tract (helps restore the microbiome), and the microbiome is the foundation of health.
Mushrooms in Chinese medicine symbolize the months of the year. And as a preventive measure, it is recommended to take certain mushrooms in certain months, you can tie the months of the year to astrological months.
Sports mushroom nutrition
Mushroom nutrition is a complete colorful food rich in proteins and all the necessary beneficial vitamins and microelements. The mushroom diet (if mushrooms are cooked correctly) can replace the consumption of meat and vegetables (complete nutrition). Mushroom protein, rich in proteins and microelements, is gaining popularity among athletes. Mushrooms contain 2 times more protein than eggs and 3 times more than meat. Mushroom proteins contain almost all amino acids, including exogenous ones, which cannot be synthesized in the body and therefore must be provided in food.
The basis of prevention and health improvement
The importance of the intestine. The first living organisms are digestive systems. The development of living organisms began with the formation of organisms similar to the intestine - with the function of digestion and nutrition. Dickonsonia is a fossil animal (lived 550 million years ago) related to animals and fungi at the same time (in fact, this is a section of the intestine). Thanks to evolution, man acquired other internal organs and a brain, but the intestine was the original living organism. The small and large intestines absorb all the necessary nutrients.
The main thing in human health, where to start treatment or recovery is the restoration of the intestinal microbiome!
In the intestines of a healthy person there are about 3 kg of bacteria that digest food, and we essentially absorb the products of bacteria.
The intestinal microbiome is the regulation of the immune system. Regulation of inflammatory processes. The intestinal microbiome determines weight regulation.
Everywhere the basis of the disease begins in the thin intestinal mucosa. The work of the intestine determines everything in a person from obesity to asthma.
In the small and large intestines, vitamins, minerals and other vital enzymes are absorbed. Without restoring the microbiome, there is no point in starting treatment because there will be no absorption of medicinal substances.
Intestine 1 detoxification – even before the liver.
Intestine – production of neurotransmitters: serotonin – the hormone of happiness. Poor bowel function provokes endogenous anxiety.
There are a huge number of nerve endings in the intestine. Changing your diet can normalize your health.
Chaga is the most important mushroom that will help restore the gastrointestinal tract.
Chaga is the main mushroom that restores the digestive system. Constant long-term use of chaga is the key to recovery. Any health or treatment program should start with chaga!
Brain and neurotransmitters work
25% of the body's energy goes to brain activity.
The most important mushroom for the brain is Hericium.
Nootropic function - creativity, learning ability (activates brain function).
Neurotropic function - preventing aging of brain neurons (Alzhelmer's)
Prevents degradation of human executive function.
Nootropic substances of the Hericium mushroom: Erinocins and gerocinone included in the composition can restore brain cells and can restore the function of neurons.
Modern main areas of use of the Hericium mushroom in mycotherapy and official medicine:
- strengthening and stimulation of the immune system and nervous system.
- a powerful nootropic agent, restoration of the nervous tissue of the brain.
- restoration of neuron function.
- support of cognitive functions.
- use in neuroses, insomnia and depressive states.
- Hericium slows down the aging process (cell degradation)
Colds. Bronchitis. Pneumonia.
Reishi
Cordyceps
Coriolus
Oyster mushroom
Shitake
Centraria – Icelandic moss.
Reproductive function.
Mushrooms that help women, including at the end of the fertile period, improve reproductive capacity are really effective. The most famous of these medicinal mushrooms are reishi, maitake and cardiceps. They have certain activities that help women.
Prevention of strokes.
Mushrooms that help prevent microstroke, as well as help fight the consequences of stroke: chaga and hericium.
Anti-cancer activity of medicinal mushrooms.
- Some medicinal mushrooms contain enzymes that can directly kill cancer cells – apoptosis.
- But perhaps even more importantly, mushrooms can restart the immune system suppressed by the tumor. Mushrooms are able to restore the functionality of immune system cells. That is, by their actions, mushrooms devalue the tumor.At stages 3 and 4 of oncology, mushrooms are a recommended and irreplaceable second line of support.
One of the main mushrooms in the prevention of oncology is the chaga mushroom.
Candidiasis. Candida yeast fungus.
Nutrition protocol.
Half or more of those who seek medical help with health problems are found to have fungi in the body, in particular candidiasis.
Candidal pathogenic formations suppress our beneficial bacteria. Painful candidal manifestations begin to form into huge colonies, break out and cause external manifestations. The Candida fungus destroys the micro biome of our intestines, and there are trillions of bacteria in a person – 2-3 kg.
An external symptom of candidiasis is a white mouth, a white tongue.
Modern nutritionology believes that with the use of various nutritional protocols, it is possible to normalize the micro biome and remove the influence of candida on our body (drive candidiasis beyond a safe boundary) – This is an anti-candidal or sugar-free nutritional protocol and this is really a trend now.
Like is treated with like. Higher fungi affect the growth of lower fungi. Higher fungi (chaga, maitake) are hostile to lower fungi – yeast (candida).
Also recommended are Coriolus and Agaricus brasiliensis (Brazilian champignon).
Contraindications.
There is no overdose of edible and medicinal mushrooms (if consumed in reasonable quantities). The excess will not linger in the body. But it happens that some mushrooms should not be taken in combination with pharmaceutical drugs because their effect is neutralized, but there will be no harm. There are only a few exceptions, for example: you cannot drink chaga before operations and in combination with blood thinners.
Clinical studies of the use of chaga in high doses have shown the absence of any side effects. An overdose of chaga is not possible. You can use chaga several times a day for a long time.
But still:
- chaga can lower blood glucose in diabetes. Large doses of chaga should be done while monitoring sugar levels.
2. Chaga contains a large amount of oxalates and if there are problems with salt metabolism, you need to be careful when using large doses of chaga. (but there are much more oxalates in sorrel, peanuts, so there are no problems when using chaga 3 times a day, a glass of mushroom broth).
Allergy from mushrooms.
In general, mushrooms are not an allergenic product.
But there is a certain group of people who selectively react to certain substances of certain mushrooms.
Lectins are complexly configured proteins. When we cook meat in a pan, foam forms, which is usually removed, this foam is lectins. All mushrooms contain lectins, but some are medicinal and some are poisonous. They act selectively on some people. This is determined genetically. Therefore, you need to start eating new mushrooms little by little.
Author: Dr. Petr Mělník, doctor of integral medicine
Health programs. Complexes.
We recommend mushroom health complexes based on medicinal mushrooms.
Health complexes are sets consisting of various highly effective mushrooms. In combination with proper nutrition, physical activity and psycho-emotional balance, the effect will definitely be.
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