MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS

Turkey-tail Mushroom (Trametes versicolor) – 2 important anti-cancer compounds !!!

New York OPEN CENTER – Medicinal Mushroom Workshop…………Sunday, June 4th 2017

In this workshop renowned mycologist Gary Lincoff, author of several books on mushrooms (including The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms), who teaches courses on mushroom identification at the New York Botanical Garden and was featured in the award-winning documentary, Know Your Mushrooms, will show us how a variety of fungal species can be used to clean up the environment and to radically boost our health and wellbeing.

The material covered will include: a basic primer on mushrooms-their biology, life-cycle, varieties, etc.; how to find, identify and grow them; how they are being used to clean up some toxins in the environment; and how to add specific health-promoting medicinal and culinary mushrooms to our diets to enhance the functioning of the body’s organs and nervous, digestive and endocrine systems; fight inflammation; boost mental and athletic performance; and help combat many illnesses. Don’t miss this chance to learn from a leading expert on how to use mushrooms to improve your life.

The morning will be an instructional Show-and-Tell with specimens, then a talk about mushroom biology and a slide show of the major medicinal mushrooms.

Between 1 and 2 pm we will leave the Open Center and go down to Chinatown to look at all the medicinal mushrooms for sale in the shops there, and then pick a place for lunch where we can get to eat some of what we see being sold on the street there.

We return to the Open Center to finish our day with a summary of all that we learned.

Learning about Medicinal Mushrooms is a shared experience. We learn from one another, from all the input that we have to share, all that we know about anecdotal treatments and medical case studies.

We are just at the very beginning, here in the Western World, of a new Mushroom Renaissance of possibility, a new Age of Enlightenment, the opening of a world view closed to us for centuries here in the West.

A Full Day Workshop
Sunday, June 4, 10-5:30 pm
Members $130/ Nonmembers $145
17SHH11S

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A few recommendations:

FungiPerfecti.com : See the website for all mushroom products

Grof, Stan. “Holotropic Breathwork,” “Beyond the Brain,” “The Adventure of Self Discovery”

Hobbs, Christopher. “Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradition, Healing & Culture.”

Lincoff, Gary. “The Complete Mushroom Hunter.”

Rogers, Robert. “The Fungal Pharmacy”

Stamets, Paul. “Mycomedicinals: An Information Booklet on Medicinal Mushrooms”

Stamets, Paul. “Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World”

Weil, Andrew. “Spontaneous Happiness,” “Eating Well for Optimum Health,” “Natural Health, Natural Medicine”

http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/about-herbs#A:

Recommended Videos:

“Song of Mukhomor”

“Know Your Mushrooms”

“Pegtymel” – a documentary about Amanita muscaria use among the Reindeer Chukchee in the Russian Far Northeast

A must visit website about medicinal herbs and mushrooms:

https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/diagnosis-treatment/symptom-management/integrative-medicine/herbs/search?keys=&letter=S&letters=&page=2

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Some Medicinal Mushrooms growing wild in the greater New York area:

POLYPORES

Ganoderma applanatum (Artist’s Conk) anti-microbial tea

Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi) anti-inflammatory, anti-viral tea

Grifola frondosa (Maitake, Hen of the Woods) cardio-vascular, anti-viral saute

Inonotus obliquus (Chaga) anti-inflammatory tea

Laetiporus sulphureus (Chicken Mushroom) urinary tract infections saute

Piptoporus betulinus (Birch Polypore) coagulant, anti-bacterial poultice

Polyporus umbellatus (Zhu Ling, Umbrella Polypore) anti-tumor tea?

Trametes versicolor (Turkey-tail) anti-tumor, organ tonic tea

GILLED MUSHROOMS

Agaricus subrufescens (Almond Agaricus) [?] anti-tumor, choles.-reducing saute

Flammulina velutipes (Enoki) anti-tumor stir-fry

Hypsizygus ulmarius (Elm Oyster) [?] stomach & intestinal diseases saute

Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster) cholesterol-reducing saute

TOOTH FUNGI

Hericium erinaceus (Lion’s Mane, Bear’s Head) cognitive enhancing saute

JELLY FUNGI

Auricularia auricula (Wood-ear) slows platelet aggregation soup

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Some Medicinal Mushrooms available in markets in the greater NYC area. (Many of those listed above are available in local markets – Asian markets or farmers’ markets)

Auricularia polytricha (Mu-ehr, Wood-ear) slows platelet aggregation soup

Cordyceps militaris (Caterpillar Fungus) cardio-vascular, sexual potentiator soup

Cordyceps sinensis (Caterpillar Fungus) cardio-vascular, sexual potentiator soup

Fomitopsis officinalis (Agarikon) anti-inflammatory, anti-biotic, anti-viral

capsules only (Host Defense, Fungi Perfecti)

Hypsizygus tesselatus (Beech Mushrooms) anti-tumor saute

Lentinula edodes (Shiitake) anti-viral, cholesterol-reducing roast

Phallus sp. (possibly P. rubrovolvata) anti-inflammatory soup, stew

Phellinus linteus [song gen (Korean)] anti-cancer effects bath?

Pleurotus eryngii (King Oyster) anti-inflammatory saute

Tremella fuciformis (White Jelly Fungus) anti-viral, convalescence soup

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“MAGIC MUSHROOMS” used as “medicines”

Psilocybe spp. (magic mushrooms) cluster headaches, drug abuse dried

Amanita muscaria (Fly-Agaric) community bonding, deliriant dried

Gymnopilus spectabilis (Big Laughing Gym) anti-inhibitory dried

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POISONOUS MUSHROOMS USED IN A MEDICINAL WAY

Amanita phalloides (Death Cap) alpha-amanitin kills cancer cells

Coprinus atramentarius (Alcohol Inky) antibuse-like coprine inhibits

enzyme in liver that detoxifies alcohol

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This page is devoted to MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS as MEDICINAL FOODS – as eaten COOKED and served in SOUP, STEW, STIR-FRY, and TEA. [See below for a chart on how best to use and preserve these mushrooms.]

By adding some of these mushrooms to your diet, you will be developing, in a very tasty, culinary way, an ANTI-INFLAMMATORY MEDICINAL MUSHROOM DIET, which should serve you well as so many of us live longer than our species ever has.

The idea for a Medicinal Mushroom Anti-Inflammatory Diet comes from Dr. Andrew Weil’s book “Spontaneous Happiness,” in which he has an appendix entitled “The Anti-Inflammatory Diet,” where he discusses what to eat and not eat, and why.

These “medicinal mushrooms” are mostly familiar locally obtained mushrooms found in urban and suburban parks and woods, as well as some in nearby forests. A few, like Shiitake, are available only in markets in the U.S.

These mushrooms are known to have beneficial effects on the BRAIN, the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM, the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM, the HEART, the LIVER, the KIDNEYS, the SEX ORGANS, even the SKIN.

We will look at these mushrooms grouped by their most distinctive field or market appearance: the POLYPORES, the GILLED MUSHROOMS, the TOOTH FUNGI, the JELLY FUNGI, STINKHORNS, and CATERPILLAR FUNGI.