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Worldwide use as medicine and healthy food
Mushroom is a type of fungus, mostly produced above ground on soil or on its food source. There are over 14,000 types of mushrooms in this world. Plus, there are around 700 ones provide benefits to human body. It should be careful, anyway, to eat any mushroom for reaching their benefits as there are quite some which are poisonous kinds.
Mushrooms are consumed as an ingredient of a food as well as a medicine for healing some disease worldwide. Mushrooms were considered as a gift for the Romans and a medical food for the Chinese. It is also the food from heaven for the Pharaohs.
Mushrooms have appeared since the Stone Age. The use of mushrooms has been validated sing 1650 about the cultivating. The French grew them in caves.These prove that mushrooms’ benefits have been discovered for so long ago and in many countries.
These days mushrooms became common ingredients in food which can be found in culinary scene worldwide. Apart from being food, they are a part of medical care as they contain a lot of benefits for human health.
Nowadays mushrooms are also popular in traditional food like soups, salads, a lot of sauces and even in sport drinks.
The use of mushrooms has the potential for a significant decrease in medical care especially during the cold and flu season. Many studies have been proved these benefits; be sure that you use the right kind of mushrooms because some kinds can
Benefits
This kind of fungus is really good to human body. It has collected a lot of microelements good for human and animal health, especially, selenium. The Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry in Moscow has a research on the selenium and found selenium in several kinds of natural objects like leafs, soil, but the most in mushrooms. Selenium is found most in those mushrooms with umbrella-shaped cap and spore-bearing tubules on the underside and the ones of the kind of Lycoperdon, Cantharellus, Agaricus, Lactrius, and Amanita.Selenium is one of the sources of antioxidants which help maintain healthy and young DNA in human body. It has also the enzymes which are need for human tissues.
In the same study found that mushrooms are also composed of useful bacteria that encourage human immune system. It helps your body eliminate any germs more efficiently and decrease the risk of cancer, heart disease, and even the HIV AIDS. So many doctors, health experts, and in Internet website of health issue are now all suggesting to consume selenium as a food supplements to strengthen your DNA. Anyway, you can choose mushroom instead of supplements food in capsules, it is natural ones with good taste.
Apart from those benefits, mushrooms can also help on weigh losing. It contains less sodium and fat, with l3kcal/kj per 100g in each raw one. However, mushrooms have much of protein, fiber, iron, zinc, minerals and vitamins which can even replace a cup of rice.
Mushrooms are also good of reducing the blood pressure and the risk of stroke. There are a lot of potassium in mushroom more than in fruits like orange or grape.
The medical types of mushrooms
There are several kinds of mushrooms which you can choose following to the seasons and the area you live. But there are only some that should be picked for improving your health. One of those beneficial mushrooms are Agaicus.Agaricus is known as a magic mushroom. This type of mushrooms contains a lot of selenium and many vitamins, especially vitamin B. It is known to be one of the factor that help on strengthen human immune system and also heal the digestion problems, diabetes, chronic fatique, diarrhea and liver problems.
Cordyceps mushrooms is another popular type. It has the same qualification as Agricus on balancing immune system. Apart from that, this kind of mushroom give very low cholesterol and fat. So you can enjoy eating without fearing of getting weight. It is also known as the healer of chronic kidney failure.
The Mitake mushroom has been well known as well now. Mitake mushroom is mostly found in Japanese and Chinese food. And most of the food with the mushrooms, people believe that their health will stay well and healthy. This kind of mushroom can help on healing cancer and also balancing blood sugar. It is composed of grifolan, a significant beta-glucan polysaccharide or molecule containing sugar. Grifolan can stimulate macrophages of the immune system and that help maintain good work of immune system in human body. This Mitake mushroom then known as the one factor encourage the cellular immune system. There are now medical researches show that Mitake mushrooms can decrease the growth of cancer cells.
A research on this issue is the research of Haroaki Nanba in the article ‘Mitake D-fraction: healing and preventing potentials for cancer’ published in the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Feb/Mar 1996; In a non-randomized clinical study, 165. It is found that patients who get only mitake D-fraction or mitake with chemotherapy have been reduced the side effects of chemotherapy like vomiting or hair loss.
Regarding to Nanba and Keiko Kubo in article ‘Mushroom biology and mushroom products, mitake can control and balance the high blood glucose levels in out body.
Besides, Mitake is used among Japanese doctors to reduce blood pressure and blood likpids, the risk factors in cardiovascular disease.
Mushrooms keeping
It is better to eat the fresh mushrooms, but they will last for a couple of days if you store them in the refrigerator. You should not wash them before keeping them in the refrigerator.Steamed mushrooms will provide more benefits as their benefits and vitamins substance are not too much defined.