The Integral Magazine number 346 has published a very interesting article about medicinal mushrooms, in which things of mushrooms tell us: "although the healing properties of fungi are already mentioned in the Ebers papyrus - dated in Egypt in the year 1500 BC.-, in the East its use it has been common for more than 4,000 years, both from a therapeutic and food point of view. "It is undoubtedly a culture that has been lost little by little, and what we try to do from Hifas da Terra is to resume these issues and demonstrate that it is not new technology, but is ancestral culture.
We also tell us curiosities such as: "There is no evidence on the medical use of Maitake, but it is known that it was much appreciated by the Romans due to their particular chicken flavor"
Or, for example, that the Agaricus bisporus o Mushroom to dry, "it has a higher antioxidant content than any Chinese mushroom" although it does not mention that its cultivation is ecological or not, since, as I have commented on other occasions, the mushrooms function as "sponges" in the middle and absorb all the good and everything bad in their environment, so if they are grown in gallinaza remains (as the great majority of those found in the supermarket) Analyze the fungus can be found antibiotics, hormones, pesticides and other phytosanitary products that apply to chickens.
And finally treats the main fungi considered medicinal and presents a picture with the qualities of each species.
Those of us who cultivate medicinal mushrooms soaked daily of this type of information, so we find everything that this article has, but we realize that it is not a really known topic among the general population, and we love to see that mushrooms are interesting for many others, and not just for us!
All the best.