Medicinal mushrooms in Russia. Vishnevsky M.

In our country, more than 250 species of mushrooms and about 50 species of lichens grow, which are used in folk, traditional and scientific medicine and serve as raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry. Medicinal mushrooms and lichens are a powerful preventive shield from cancer, they weaken the side effects of radiation and chemotherapy. Drugs from them are effective for benign neoplasms; are indispensable in the treatment of hypertension, coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, stroke, heart attack, varicose veins, thrombophlebitis; have great effectiveness for liver diseases; effectively help with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract; Significantly facilitate the condition and treatment with allergic and autoimmune diseases and diabetes; contribute to a decrease in blood sugar; irreplaceable for suppressing viruses, including HIV; normalize the work of the central nervous system; restore immune status; They are used as an antiherontological agent (including against diseases of Alzheimer and Parkinson), as cosmetic raw materials for the production of restoring and rejuvenating creams and for many other purposes...

the information about medicinal fungi and the book and the book Lichens of Russia (it is all of Russia, and not just its European part) and practical tips for their collection, processing and use will be useful for the widest circle of readers, and mushroom pickers and herbalists will allow you to expand the horizons and discover new properties of such seemingly such seemingly such well -known species. The publication is a logical continuation of the reference book “The poisonous mushrooms of Russia”.