Mushrooms to Curb Cancer????

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Mushrooms to Curb Cancer?

JoAnn Guest

Nov 14, 2004 17:11 PST

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Mushrooms to Curb Cancer?

 

Does agaricus help to cure or prevent breast cancer or any other cancer

as advertised?

-- June Sugakawa

 

 

Answer (Published 05/31/2002)

 

http://www.drweil.com/u/QA/QA68312/

 

You’re no doubt referring to Agaricus blazei, a medicinal mushroom known

in Japan as Himmematsutake and in this country as the Almond Portobello

or Royal Sun Agaricus. This delicious, edible mushroom has a pronounced

almond extract flavor and meaty texture; it also appears to enhance

immune system activity.

 

Agaricus blazei was discovered in Florida but is best known from Brazil,

where Japanese growers are producing it commercially. Japanese

researchers have done the most studies on its medicinal effects. The

mushroom contains beta glucans, a group of polysaccharides (complex

sugars) believed to be the compounds responsible for its immune boosting

effects. In addition, research has shown that Agaricus blazei has

anti-tumor and anti-viral activity, as well as moderating effects on

blood sugar and cholesterol.

 

In Japan and Brazil the mushroom is widely used by cancer patients. I

hope mushroom growers here will begin producing it as a gourmet species,

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it is just delicious. In the meantime you can find it here in dried form

as well as in extracts. One very good source for these is Fungi Perfecti

in Olympia, WA www.fungi.com.

 

I also recommend two other mushroom species, maitake and reishi, to

cancer patients for their immune-enhancing and anti-cancer effects.

Maitake (Grifola frondosa) is an edible mushroom known here as “hen of

the woods” because in appearance it resembles the fluffed tail feathers

of a nesting hen. In addition to its anticancer, antiviral and

immune-enhancing properties, maitake may also reduce blood pressure and

blood sugar. Reishi mushrooms (Ganoderma lucidum) are too bitter to eat

as food but are widely available in tea bags, capsules and liquid

extracts. Animal studies have shown that reishi improves immune function

and inhibits the growth of some malignant tumors; it is also a natural

anti-inflammatory agent.

 

Dr. Andrew Weil

www.drweil.com

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