Medicinal Value of Mushroom-Based Dietary Therapy
1. Take 50g rice, cook into porridge using normal method. Add 10g cleaned and sliced mushrooms when the porridge is half-cooked. Continue cooking until rice is fully cooked. This helps treat gastric heat-induced vomiting, intestinal heat-related diarrhea, and poor appetite.
2. Use 6g fresh mushrooms and one live crucian carp. Boil in clear water without salt. After cooking, eat the fish and drink the soup. This helps treat slow eruption of measles in children.
3. Take 10g mushrooms, decoct into tea, and consume once daily. Effective for chronic bronchitis and phlegm production.
4. Dry mushrooms, grind into powder, and take with warm water. 3g per dose, twice daily. Useful for functional uterine bleeding, hemorrhoidal bleeding, and rectal bleeding.
5. Modern medical research shows mushrooms contain interferon inducers, capable of triggering interferon production, thus showing good efficacy against vesicular stomatitis virus, encephalitis virus, etc.
6. Japanese scientists have extracted a polysaccharide from mushrooms with anti-cancer properties, showing certain effectiveness against breast cancer, skin cancer, and lung cancer.
7. Fresh mushroom water extract tablets can treat persistent or chronic hepatitis. Therefore, liver patients are advised to consume mushrooms.
8. Mushrooms also help lower blood cholesterol levels. Enzymes like lysozyme and tyrosinase in mushrooms have blood pressure-lowering functions. Thus, mushrooms are ideal health food for hypertensive and cardiovascular patients. Additionally, mushrooms possess mild hypoglycemic effects. Diabetic patients with indigestion may benefit from eating mushrooms, as they contain proteases and other enzymes that break down proteins and digest fats. Pharmacological studies indicate mushroom culture fluid inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, and Escherichia coli.