A Powerful Mushroom Medicine

July 19th, 2021

By Nick Polizzi

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

During the summer months, my family and I love foraging for medicinal plants in the forests and meadows near our house. Once you start to learn which plant is which, it’s really fun to gather your own remedies.

But it’s not just the green stuff that can help us heal — there’s another category of forest dwellers that are packed with mood-lifting and immune-supporting nutrients that can transform your health.

Mushrooms!

Now, before we dive into this mysterious realm of natural medicine, I want to first make it very clear that foraging for mushrooms is dangerous and you should not harvest mushrooms from the wild without the guidance of a trained professional.

That said, these fun-guys (mushroom pun) are nutritional powerhouses, and many of them have been used since time immemorial to treat all manner of serious illnesses – including cancer.

Today, I’d like to introduce you to one safe and readily available mushroom whose cancer healing properties make it a medicinal force. I’m talking about maitake.

You might know maitake as Hen of the Woods or The Dancing Mushroom, coined for the way it grows at the base of oak trees. Well, scientists are beginning to discover that this little mushroom comes with some big healing benefits…

After years of studies, this VIP mushroom has proven to be an amazing preventative. It’s so powerful, in fact, that maitake extract is being tested for its cancer-fighting ability. Early tests have yielded promising results, particularly with breast cancer.

Maitake can slow tumor growth by inhibiting a cancerous cell’s ability to produce its own blood vessels, slowly starving and shrinking the tumor. It’s also used to curb the nasty side effects that come with chemotherapy.

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