Medicinal mushrooms Archives

Stalking the Wild Caterpiller Fungus • Jeff Chilton

Dec 2, 2019 | Qiologician Podcasts

Cordyceps is one of the precious medicinals of the Chinese medicine pharmacopeia. It’s a wild grown substance that has only recently begun to give up the secrets to how it can be cultivated so that its benefits can be enjoyed by more than a privileged few. This...

Dec 2, 2019

096 Magic of Mushrooms: The Modern Use of Mycelial Medicinals • Robert Hoffman

Herbal Medicine

Jul 30, 2019 | Herbal Medicine

Mushrooms are a curiosity. Neither plant, nor animal, they are stuff of fairy tales and dreams. They hint at something dangerous. They could be delicious, or they could kill you. They sprout up unexpectedly and then quickly melt away. Their underground mycelial...

Jul 30, 2019

016 Medicinal Mushrooms: History and Science of Modern Cultivation • Jeff Chilton

Herbal Medicine

Jan 30, 2018 | Herbal Medicine, unprotected

Precious and rare medicinal mushrooms like reishi (ling zhi) and cordyceps (dong chong xia cao) used to be available only to royalty, or those who knew how to spot them in the wild. These medicinals have a long history of use in East Asia and are associated with...

Jan 30, 2018