Medicinal Mushrooms:
The Essential Guide

A book by Martin Powell

This book is an excellent introduction to medicinal mushrooms. It provides a useful summary of all the key points, uses and benefits, backed by some of the key research. This is less in-depth and technical than Martin's 'Medicinal Mushrooms: A Clinical Guide', so makes for an easy-to-read and quick guide to the essential mushroom health facts that you need to know. 65 pages.

Contents include:

Introduction

• How Medicinal Mushrooms Work
• Using Medicinal Mushrooms

Ten Medicinal Mushrooms

• Almond Mushroom Agaricus subrufescens
• Chaga Inonotus obliquus
• Cordyceps Cordyceps species
• Coriolus Trametes versicolor
• Lion's Mane  Hericium erinaceus
• Maitake Grifola frondosa
• Mesima Phellinus linteus
• Reishi Ganoderma lucidum
• Shiitake Lentinula edodes
• Snow Fungus Tremella fuciformis

Health benefits of medicinal mushrooms

• Asthma
• Bacterial Infection
• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
• Cancer
• Candida
• Cardiovascular Health
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Colds / Flu
• Dementia / Alzheimer's
• Diabetes
• Digestive Health
• Erectile Dysfunction
• Fatigue
• Hayfever
• Hepatitis
• Herpes
• High Blood Pressure
• High Cholesterol
• HIV
• HPV
• Infertility - Female
• Infertility - Male
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBS)
• Insomnia / Anxiety
• Kidney Health
• Liver Health
• Menopausal Syndrome
• Nerve Damage
• Neuropathy
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
• Psoriasis
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Smoking-related conditions

GLOSSARY AND REFERENCES