Mushrooms
Mushrooms are among the most outstanding of nature’s healing foods.
Egyptian hieroglyphics show mushrooms as the plant of immortality, called the “sons of the gods” sent to Earth on lightning bolts and eaten only by nobles and pharaohs.
The Aztecs also had sacred mushrooms called “the flesh of the gods,” which they consumed in holy rituals.
The Vikings are believed to have eaten hallucinogenic mushrooms before battle, which would have produced the ferocious fighting state they are noted for.
Buddhists monks traveling from monastery to monastery spread information about the curative effects of fungi, which they and Taoists priests used in rituals.
Kykeon, an ergot-barley and mint drink was the hallucinogenic potion used by Socrates, Plato and other elite of ancient Greece during the Eleusis festival celebrating birth, regeneration and the return of spring.
Archeological evidence does show that many cultures around the world used these fungi for ritualistic and sacred practices. The earliest depiction of entheogenic mushroom consumption might be a cave painting found in the upper Tassili platueu of northern Algeria that dates to at least 5,000 B.C., if not older.
Since that time, many other cultures around the world have developed rich traditions that utilize psychoactive mushroom species to bring about profound insight into the human predicament.
Energetically: Oriental Medicine believes that healing Mushrooms, remove dead decaying matter from the forest floors, just as in the energy fields of our own body-minds.
Mushrooms such as Reishi, Shiitake and Maitake are the stars of the mushroom realm, they also convert our own metabolic and psychic wastes, transforming our stagnant or festering emotions and negative feelings, offering the opportunity to raising the spirit and freeing the mind toward more spiritual pursuits.
Fungi are recyclers in their natural environment. To feed itself, a fungus breaks down organic matter and at the same time cleans the earth. It transforms dead organic matter; if there were no mushrooms Earth would be densely crowded with dead animals and plants.
Chaga
Inonotus Obliquus
“King of the Medicinal Mushrooms”
Increases power, energy, stamina, and stimulates healing processes within the body
“Complex living pharmacy” the most alkaline food on Earth
Ensures cells and tissues are strong; repairs DNA, and heals degeneration
Detoxifies (blood and liver)
Highest amount of melanin and helps the body produce more superoxide dismutase (SOD)
- Superoxide dismutase is an enzyme that helps break down potentially harmful oxygen molecules in cells, which might prevent damage to tissues. It is being researched to see if it can help conditions where oxygen molecules are believed to play a role in disease
They grow in extremely cold forests where they’re exposed to freezing temperatures, snow and ice. Their summers are very hot, which means they experience lots of UV radiation.
Here are a few of the chemicals produced by Chaga that are also biologically active in humans.
- Melanin
- Antioxidant enzymes
- Triterpenoids
- Ergosterols
- Sesquiterpenes
- Betulinic acid
- Polysaccharides
- Phytosterols
Its gold core represents the truest alchemical substance in the woods, something that transforms base metals, minerals and human beings into gold (higher levels of ascension and thought)
Reishi
Chaga is the “King of Mushrooms”, Reishi has claimed the title as the “Queen of Mushrooms.”
State of calm in both the mind and body. This mushroom works as an adaptogen
Mushroom of Spiritual Potency
Many revered Taoists and monks have long claimed that Reishi is a powerful ‘Shen tonic,’ which translates loosely to an herb that ‘nourishes the spirit’.
***Nourishes the “shen.”
Imbues the mushroom eater with spiritual radiance and wisdom. Reishi is presumed to uplift and transform the mind by expunging psychic waste, thereby helping to facilitate enlightenment.
Life extension, deep relaxation and physical rejuvenation
Belongs to a special class of medicines known as ‘tonic herbs’. These are substances considered so foundational and important to overall health, vitality, and quality of life that they are encouraged to be taken daily for their numerous benefits, sick or not.
Reishi was classified by Shen Nong as a superior herb – meaning that it could be taken continuously without side effects. The definition of a superior herb is an herb that it is a substance that it essential to life, can be taken continuously without negative side effects and promotes excellent health and long life by harmonizing the body, mind and spirit.
Shen Nong said of Reishi that “if eaten customarily, it makes your body light and young, lengthens your life and turns you into one like the immortal, who never dies.”
Alters the makeup of bacteria in the gut, which may aid in weight loss
For treating inflammatory conditions - allergies
Contains compounds called triterpenes. These are released by alcohol extraction and act through our hormones to
- reduce stress
- decrease depression symptoms
- improve the sense of well-being
- increase both the quantity and quality of sleep
Lion´s Mane
Improves both cognition and concentration, and reduces depression and anxiety
Protects the network of "wires" that nerves use to send signals by promoting the growth of the insulation around them (called myelin)
Nerve growth factors (NGF) synthesis in nerve cells: Lion’s mane is a nootropic, meaning it possesses cognitive benefits and has also been linked to:
Improved mood
Enhanced memory
Improved cholesterol levels
Digestion
One of the highest natural antioxidants
Promotes a healthy immune system
This mushroom was prized by the Shaolin for enhancing their Mind-Power, showing correlation with the modern science. According to their belief, the stronger your mind power, the greater your ability to direct the flow of your Qi energy throughout the body. And thus they are able to perform feats of great physical strength and endurance!
Cordyceps
Promotes vitality, energy and recovery
Improved cardiovascular health
Energy production
Anti-inflammatory response
Improved respiratory health
Balanced cholesterol
Antioxidant abilities
Reduced muscle soreness
Increases ATP production and improves endurance during exercise.
ATP’s role is to transport chemical energy to the areas of the body that need it.
Cordyceps are like a deejay pumping up the energy of a party. One of their most famous attributes, known in Asia for at least six hundred years, is the stimulation of libido. Studies have shown Cordyceps slightly increase testosterone and estrogen.
As cordyceps is an adaptogen, and not a stimulant, it does not induce spikes or sudden crashes in energy level
Cordyceps also stimulates apoptosis, which is a process that gets rid of old and defective cells including cancerous cells in tumors that are usually not subject to programmed cell death.
The fungus Cordyceps begins life by attaching its spore to an ant, germinates, and feeds on it and grows into a small mushroom. The ant lives its own life with the mushroom on its back until one day the ant is driven to climb a tree. The ant reaches a height sufficient for the release of the spores. It will remain there until it dies and all the spores are spread. All through this relationship the fungus could have eaten the ant but it displayed the intelligence to know that the ant was more important to its life and reproduction live than as a food source.
Shiitake
Shiitake mushrooms, named “medicinal mushrooms,” are the kings of healing mushrooms
Known as a symbol of longevity in Asia, shiitakes have been used for over 6000 years as medicine.
Have a compound called AHCC meaning Active Hexose Correlated Compound
- Enhances the activity of natural killer cells (a type of immune cell)
- Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects
- Can improve the response of the immune system n humans
- Improves liver function
Shiitake also enhances immunity by boosting the production of T cells, macrophages, phagocytes, natural killer cells and other white blood cells.
Fortifies liver
Excellent plant-based source of iron
It contains a number of health-stimulating agents, including lentinan, the polysaccharide for which it was named. Lentinan has been isolated and supports healthy immune function, protects your liver, relieves other stomach distress and balances blood chemistry.
The mushroom also contains a polysaccharide called Beta 1.3 glucan, which appears to possess powerful anti-viral and anti-tumor powers.
Remove excess fat from the blood
Reduce cholesterol
Enhance cardio-vascular health
Protect the cells from microbial pathogens
Selenium
Vitamins-B2, B3, B6
Vitamin D, Folate, Zinc, and Fiber
Nutritionally, shiitake is very heart healthy and has been shown to lower cholesterol. Reduces the buildup of arterial plaque - which is the cause of hardened arteries. This mushroom also inhibits the formation of arterial lesions, and lowers high blood pressure.
Reishi-------
***In Traditional Chinese Medicine, reishi is an exalted spiritual herb, known for thousands of years to nourish the “shen.”
Shen is the channel of spirituality that runs through our very being. It’s known as the heartmind, and is the “awareness” that inspires our existence. Shen provides us with insight and allows our true selves into being, as it is essential for enlightenment.
To further depict shen for you, it is the life-giving “opposite” of jing. You are born with life essence, jing. Jing is at its height when we are born and in the earlier stages of life, and when jing is completely depleted, we die. Shen is on the other side of the life spectrum. It is the life-heart-mind-spiritually-cultivated awareness that grows as we do.
Fertility and creativity can take these different shapes as well. If we increase our shen, we increase our spiritual fertility, our greater creativity. The ability to manifest and balance input and outputs come from shen-fertility, and when we are fertile in this way, we are creative and reproductive as our higher selves.
Description of Reishi by a healer:
“That is not a plant at all, that is a being older and wiser than the entire Jungle. That is only a part of it which you see, but it lives below the whole jungle and knows every plant within it. We use it as medicine when we are in the city feeling lost and lonely for our jungle. Then we chew upon it and it fills us with the spirit of the whole jungle!”
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Adaptogens gently tone and support the body systems over time and need to be taken for a minimum time of two months to develop the full effect of their healing powers.
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Mystical History of the “Spirit Medicine”
Since its discovery over 2,000 years ago, reishi has been renowned to “make the body lighter.” Ling Zhi, another name for reishi, translates as “Spirit Herb,” and it was regarded as the key to immortality. In Chinese culture, it was even said reishi could bring life back to the dead. It has been depicted in ancient scrolls as a bridge between heaven and earth. The fruiting body of the mushroom is used as the symbol for longevity and spiritual radiance, much like the lotus flower is to Buddhist culture. Ancient Taoists used reishi to become “capable of spiritual transcendence.”
People may think of psychedelic plants as a gateway to the nature of mind, as a way to enlightenment. Maybe these mind-altering drugs can help reinforce those on the bodhi path. But they are optional, and secondary to the process that is truly essential for spiritual evolution: meditation (or contemplation).
While laws and social stigmas limit the use of psychedelics, there is an alternative substance you can freely consume that can aid contemplation. And you can do so without jail time, or excommunication from your social niche. The herb–or mushroom–is reishi (Chinese name: ling zhi), and it is classified as an adaptogen.
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