Medicinal mushrooms in Russia

On the territory of 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. Preparations of them are effective for benign neoplasms, are indispensable in the treatment of hypertension, coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, stroke, infarction, varicose veins, thrombophlebitis, have great efficiency in liver diseases, effectively help with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, significantly facilitate the condition and treatment In allergic and autoimmune diseases and diabetes, they contribute to a decrease in blood sugar, indispensable for suppressing viruses, including HIV, normalize the work of the central nervous system, restore the immune status, are used as an anti -Herontological agent (including against Alzheimer and Parkinson"s diseases), as a cosmetological raw materials for the production of restoring and anti -aging creams and for many other purposes ...
in the book information about medicinal mushrooms and lichens of Russia (namely all of Russia, and not just its European part) and practical tips for collecting them to collect them , processing and use will be useful for the widest circle of readers, and mushroom pickers and herbalists will expand their horizons and discover the new properties of such seemingly well -known species. The publication is a logical continuation of the directory "Poisonous mushrooms of Russia"