Medicinal Mushrooms and Medicines | Funghi Energia & Salute

BY DR. FRANCESCA ARDIGÒ

"Doctor, can I use Medicinal Mushrooms even if I'm taking conventional medicine?"

The answer is YES.

Many scientific studies have shown that Medicinal Mushrooms are a useful addition to conventional medicine, not only because they do not reduce or modify the therapeutic effects of pharmacological therapies, but above all because they improve results.

This is confirmed by several studies present in the scientific literature. Here I will mention three that concern important pathologies. Two were conducted on heart patients (Chen, 1995; Rajasekaran and Kalaimagal, 2012) and one on diabetic patients (Hsu, 2008a). Well, it turned out that the patients treated with conventional medicine with the addition of Medicinal Mushrooms performed better than those treated with pharmacological therapy alone. In fact, conventional medicine and Medicinal Mushrooms have very distinct characteristics, because they act through different but complementary mechanisms of action, which integrate each other perfectly.

Medicinal Mushrooms exert many positive actions to improve health when you are ill. On the other hand, when you are healthy, your well-being and physical and mental energy increase. It is also important to know that thousands of scientific studies have amply demonstrated that Medicinal Mushrooms have no side effects.

Mycotherapy supplements and Medicinal Mushrooms

Mycotherapy is a rapidly expanding method. Millions of people around the world use it daily to treat themselves and to enhance pharmacological therapies, counteracting any side effects the latter may cause. Nowadays, Medicinal Mushrooms can be found on the shelves of pharmacies and herbalists. Our Food Supplements, for example, are also present in pharmaceutical warehouses which supply pharmacies and herbalists. They are used more and more often also in association with pharmacological therapies. One of the greatest advantages of Medicinal Mushrooms lies in their dual action. In fact, they act on both the cause and the symptom of the disorder by solving the origin of the problem.

Pharmacological therapies, both necessary and useful, can unfortunately often cause side effects. Medicinal Mushrooms, thanks to their wealth of active ingredients, are not only able to enhance the effect of the pharmacological therapy itself, but are also able to reduce the annoying and debilitating side effects, strengthening and supporting the whole body.

The beneficial effects of Medicinal Mushrooms have been widely proven by many researchers, such as Rajasekaran and Kalaimagal in 2012 and Von Hoff in 1979.

Conventional Medicines and Medicinal Mushrooms not only "can" be used at the same time, but "should always integrated".

Medicinal Mushrooms: from the East to the whole world

In the East, due to tradition and culture, often in many cases a solution is first sought through a natural treatment. If patients follow a pharmacological therapy, Medicinal Mushrooms are often added to reduce the side effects of chemical drugs, to improve the results of drug treatment, to obtain results in a shorter time and to improve quality of life. That is why in Japan, China, Thailand, India and other Asian countries, Mycotherapy and acupuncture are part of normal hospital health care.

In those countries, doctors in hospitals prescribe treatments with Medicinal Mushrooms and pharmacological therapies, which are simultaneously administered to patients by nursing staff. These complementary treatments are used in many diseases, including important ones: gastrointestinal, immune, cardiac, renal, autoimmune, pediatric, gynecological, neurological disorders, as well as for hepatitis, diabetes, stroke, paralysis and more.
Therefore, it should not surprise us if nowadays, in an era in which we have many pharmacological therapies, Medicinal Mushrooms have not lost their reputation. The use of Medicinal Mushrooms is on the increase.

The real effectiveness of this Medicinal Mushroom-based natural cure is confirmed by scientific research conducted in the last 50 years in universities around the world. Moreover, the positive experience of millions of people who have been using Medicinal Mushrooms every day for years in Asian countries, has resulted in Mycotherapy spreading beyond continental borders, to the West and throughout the world. So, Medicinal Mushrooms have reached us too.

Another reason for their effectiveness lies in their important function as "ecological scavengers", which allows them to transform everything that dies into a healthy biological substance. In other words, they regenerate what no longer has life. This is why they are of great help in curbing the processes of decline in our body from an immune, circulatory, psychological and energy point of view and in supporting and strengthening the body and slowing down psycho-physical deterioration and improving health. Medicinal Mushrooms are a great resource, because as we all know, prevention is better than cure.

Moreover, it is no coincidence that some very useful drugs to defend the body come from fungi. Where do penicillin (antibiotic) and cyclosporine A (anti-rejection drug), two medicines that have revolutionized the history of medicine, come from? From mushrooms! Their gifts to humanity. But the list of drugs extracted from mushrooms and useful in important pathologies certainly does not end here.

Just think of cordycepine, a drug that has also been used for the treatment of HIV, which is extracted from Cordyceps, and is useful for strengthening the immune system. This is further confirmation of the effectiveness of Medicinal Mushrooms in strengthening the immune system, the apparatus thanks to which the body defends itself from many diseases.

In the hands of the doctor or health professional who understands it, Mycotherapy is also an important tool in the treatment of chronic diseases. We remind you that for the choice and administration of Medicinal Mushrooms it is better to consult an expert so as to choose the Medicinal Mushrooms most suitable for our health and to take the correct dosage continuously, to obtain the best results.

People who use Medicinal Mushrooms properly, are enthusiastic about Mycotherapy and fall in love with it! In wishing you a long healthy life, we remind you that:

" Medicines and food come from the same root."