Medicinal Value of Mushroom-Based Dietary Therapy
1. Use 50 grams of glutinous rice, cook into porridge using standard method. Add 10 grams of cleaned, sliced mushrooms when the porridge is half-cooked. Continue cooking until the rice is fully cooked, then consume. This helps treat gastric heat-induced vomiting, intestinal heat-related diarrhea, and poor appetite.
2. Use 6 grams of fresh mushrooms and one live crucian carp. Boil in clear water without salt. After cooking, eat the fish and drink the broth. This helps treat slow eruption of measles in children.
3. Use 10 grams of mushrooms, decoct into tea, and consume once daily. This helps treat chronic bronchitis and phlegm production.
4. Dry mushrooms, grind into powder, and take with warm water. Take 3 grams twice daily. This helps treat functional uterine bleeding, hemorrhoidal bleeding, and intestinal bleeding.
5. Modern medical research shows that mushrooms contain interferon inducers, which can trigger interferon production, thereby showing good efficacy against viruses such as vesicular stomatitis virus and encephalitis virus.
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, individuals with liver disease should consume mushrooms.
8. Mushrooms also help lower blood cholesterol levels. Enzymes in mushrooms such as lipase and tyrosinase contribute to lowering blood pressure. Thus, mushrooms are ideal health food for hypertensive and cardiovascular patients. Additionally, mushrooms have 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 show that mushroom culture fluid also inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, and Escherichia coli.