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Shiitake mushrooms, in vivo studies, show an increase in immune
response when taken as food.
Enoki mushrooms too are considered immune stimulating a favorite of both Japanese and Chinese traditional medicine practitioners. Commercially grown on cut oak trees. |
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Matsutake, an expensive Japanese favorite, known immune
stimulating chemistry.
Maitake another Oriental mushroom is immune stimulating, anti-cancer. Beta glucan a polysaccharide in the mushroom may account for the anti cancer effect in laboratory animals. The anti-metastic activity has exhibited itself in a small number of human studies. Five hundred milligram tablets of maitake lowered blood pressure in humans. The mushroom also lower cholesterol in rats. |
Enoki mushrooms now available (by request) in numerous supermarkets is one of the finest health protecting mushrooms. Close up above of head and stalks: heads about a 1/4 inch, stalks 1/4 inch wide to 5 inches in length. Delicate. |
