We've all been exposed to or cooked using some of the most common culinary mushrooms like portabella white button, etc.
However, there is an entire class of mushrooms known as medicinal mushrooms. these medicinal healing mushrooms aren't intended for flavor-enhancement, though certain of them may be utilized in recipes. They are often taken in tea forms, tinctures and extracts, and also in capsules as powders.
These medicinal mushrooms are the reishi, agaricus, (or the agaricus blazei mushrooms), maitake, shitake and coriolus mushroom. There are many more however these are a few of the most popular.
The medicinal mushrooms like these share a lot with human beings in terms of their chemical and genetic structure. Many scientists claim that mushrooms are more similar to humans genetically than almost any other plant.
Based on this that some "higher level" mushrooms, frequently referred to as "medicinal mushrooms" (NOT magic mushrooms! ), can positively heal and impact the body, emotions, mind and soul of people who consume these mushrooms.
Reishi mushroom is among the most famous healing mushrooms in China (though it is also found in other parts of the world as well). Reishi mushroom is sometimes referred to as "the mushroom of immortality" because it is able to be consumed every day as an invigorating "herb" and it useful in prolonging life.
Reishi mushroom is often utilized (in in the East) to boost the immune system for people suffering from HIV as well as cancer. Reishi is also purported to help reduce inflammation, help with fatigue, help heal viruses in the body, as well as to ease stress and calm the Mushrooms chocolate bar spirit, enabling people to be more mindful and connect with Spirit more easily.
Maitake is another of the very most powerful medicinal mushrooms in the world. Maitake is used culinarily as well as medicinally, and is a very powerful source of beta-glucan polysaccharides--potent immune system healing chemicals.
Maitake mushroom is used in the prevention of cancer as well as in helping to manage the effects of high cholesterol and diabetes. Maitake increases the activity of natural killer cells in the body, helping get rid of the body's diseases of the immune system.
There are a variety of other common types of medicinal mushrooms, and I've written full descriptions of them in my blog, linked below.
One final point, if you are considering a research into the healing potential of medicinal mushrooms: If you take them supplementally alongside the Vitamin C sources (preferably one that is a natural source of Vitamin C supplier) You can double the effect of both medicinal mushrooms and double the efficiency of Vitamin C! This is a powerful guideline for having the best health ever!