Medicinal mushrooms of Russia

More than 250 species of fungi and about 50 species of lichens grow on the territory of our country, 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 against cancer, they weaken the side effects of radiation and chemotherapy. Preparations from them are effective in benign neoplasms; indispensable in the treatment of hypertension, coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, stroke, heart attack, varicose veins, thrombophlebitis; have great effectiveness in liver diseases; effectively help with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract; significantly facilitate the condition and treatment of allergic and autoimmune diseases and diabetes; contribute to the reduction of blood sugar levels; are indispensable for suppressing viruses, including HIV; normalize the central nervous system; restore immune status; are used as an antiherontological agent (including against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases), as cosmetic raw materials for the production of restorative and rejuvenating creams and for many, many other purposes …
The information given in the book about medicinal mushrooms and lichens of Russia (namely, the whole of Russia, and not just its European part) and practical advice on their collection, processing and use will be useful for a wide range of readers, and mushroom pickers and herbalists will expand their horizons and discover new properties of such seemingly well-known im of species. The publication is a logical continuation of the reference book “Poisonous mushrooms of Russia”.