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Functional Mushrooms 101

Mushroom Revival Podcast

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The Earliest Written Evidence of Functional Mushrooms

Around fifth century b c, we get hippocrates talking about the agaricon mostrom as a cural. And also, he was found with early tattoos on meridian points in his body. And they think that he was using the smouldering embers of the mushroom and holding it under those specific meridian points to have energy. In 200 a d, you know, we get mentions race porio, cocos tramela. And in more mushrooms, we get corticep sicadia being talked about through seventh century a d in china. We get buvaria basiana and entomopathogenic fungi being talked about in shanan's materia medica.

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