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More on the Healing Power of Mushrooms + Chaga
More on the Healing Power of Mushrooms + Chaga
Date: 2/17/2013 11:32:09 PM ( 11 y ) ... viewed 2564 times
I NEVER LOOKED AT MUSHROOMS FOR HEALING BEFORE I HEARD
ANDREW WEIL SPEAK, FEB 1
I never looked at mushrooms for my personal healing before I heard Dr. Andrew Weil M.D. speak February at the Scripps Natural Supplement Conference.
He said he used them personally. I also heard from Mark Blumenthal about Paul Stamens, a noted mushroom expert, at that same conference. He told me that Fungi Perfecti, Paul's company, had a booth at the Scripps Conference. I missed seeing it, but I will meet some of the Fungi Perfecti team at the upcoming Natural Product Expo West in Anaheim.
I started to look at the Fungi Perfecti site, and saw that Dr. Weil had an endorsement for these products.
I have been anxious to start using the MyCommunity Product. I have been in communication with Fungi Perfecti.
I am about 17 days before the Natural Product Expo West, and still not fully confident of the ability of my immune system to stand off colds and virus's.
Saturday night, the day before a Mushroom conference in our local Balboa Park, Nadine came home from Wildmill Farms with that product--MyCommunity. I started to take it.
CHAGA, MEDICINAL MUSHROOM
Yesterday, was the first time I ever heard of Chaga Medicinal mushroom
from Dennis Sharmahd, an old friend. He had a Chaga Mushroom on display and a few products, one called simple "Chaga." The label reads, 2 oz pure mushroom tincture. THe product contains Chaga, inonotus obliquusm as the third ingredient behind purified water and 20% pure cane alcohol.
I bought this product as well as one called Royal Chi Tonic.
Dennis goes by Green Medicine Deer, PO 1882, Escondido, CA.
He told me he had traveled all the way to main during the Chaga season, last October to harvest the wild mushroom.
There was also a book by David Wolff on Chaga on the table with some impressive references to the healing power of this mushroom.
I saw a number of Paul Stamens books at the Mushroom Fair in Balboa Park.
INGREDIENTS IN MYCOMMUNITY
I started to take Paul Stamens product Saturday night. It is recommended to take two capsules a day. I have been taking more.
I just studied the label and recognize that Chaga is the first ingredient in the MyCommunity Product.
Today is Monday February 20, 2013. I have been taking Chaga and the other mushrooms in MyCommunity for a little over two days now, as well as my other supplements.
I sense I am getting a double dose of Chaga, taking both the Dennis Sharmadh product and the MyCommunity as the same time.
I really want to build up my immune system.
THE MOST EXCITING FIND IN RETROSPECT AT THE MUSHROOM CONFERENCE
WAS MEETING CHRISTOPHER A YOUNG OF SOCAL SHROOMS
Christoper is the Lead Swawner for some very special oyster mushrooms that have been on my radar for more than six months. He grows this very special mushrooms at Suzie's Farm. I see them at the Farmers' Market.
Chris has some growing jars with the Oyster Mushroom material in them. I do not have the language down yet of the parts of a mushroom. We traded for one of the jars.
NADINE: IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT HEALTHIER PIZZA INGREDIENTS
Nadine is going to tend the growing of this with the thought that we might add it our our products at her North Park Farmers' Market booth. We want to build up her items for sale.
The addition of Oyster mushrooms to our Grow A Healthier Pizza Project seems a natural fit!!!! Mushrooms go with Pizza.
So, here we are--growing our own crust with KAMUT ® khorasan wheat, and now, potentially adding on mushrooms.
We also recommend various Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, that can go in the soil, a pot, or your Tower of Pizza Vertical growing system--The Tower Garden.
The Hani Spreads with organic garlic is the first product that Nadine is offering in her stand at the North Park Farmers' Market. These are very popular for anyone who tastes them.
The Hani products seem to be having an outstanding influence on my bowel health. Dr. Bernard Jensen was a big fan of garlic. These products are pure garlic whipped with various other healthy ingredients.
Photo...
MUSHROOM GROUP MEETS FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH AT CASA DEL PRADO BALBOA PARK
VIDEO
This makes me want to grow Reishi...
This company combines the two, Chaga and Reishi...
http://greenplanetparadise.com/shop/surthrival-chaga-mushroom-extract-1oz?gcl...
I brought some Chaga tincture today.
PAUL STEMENS ON CHAGA IN HUFFINGTON POST
The problem with Chaga today is that widespread chopping of Chaga conks off of trees threatens a delicate ecological balance. Highly-motivated commercial foragers are quickly removing Chaga found near roads and hiking trails, making Chaga increasingly hard to find. Harvesters wielding hatchets and saws badly wound the trees they harvest from, exposing the fragrant and soft fungally digested wood to fungus-loving insects, potentially increasing the spread of insect-carried diseases. While a lack of forestry research on the topic has left no clear consensus in the scientific community about the long term effect of Chaga harvesting, there is sufficient cause for concern. Forest ecologists have a vested interest in understanding the long-term ecological role of Chaga, lest we learn later that the chopping off of wild Chaga accelerates beetle and other blights with untold downstream impact. This onslaught for short-term profit may inflict long-term ecological damage, though more research is needed to fully understand the scope and long-term impacts.
CULTIVATION OF CHAGA
A solution to over-harvesting Chaga for the nutriceutical industry is cultivation. Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age. It turns brown as its squirrel-like furry growth matures. Analysis of this mycelium shows that its anti-oxidant effect similar to that of wild-harvested Chaga. Moreover, Chaga is cleaner when cultivated under laboratory conditions. The pure Chaga mycelium has the distinct advantage of not carrying insects and their feces, and is less likely to absorb heavy metals that have been concentrated from air pollution. Moreover, cultivation is a sustainable practice, while the commercial harvesting of wild Chaga is making this mushroom harder to find.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-stamets/chaga-mushroom_b_1974571.html
http://oriveda.wordpress.com/chaga-the-facts/
AD ON CUREZONE FOR WILD CHAGA
http://www.chagamountain.com/?gclid=CM6vp5TGwLUCFQjhQgodaHYAmA
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February 17, 2013
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