Since ancient times, humans have relied on the properties of medicinal mushrooms and other fungi to treat health problems. In traditional Chinese medicine, practitioners use fungi to treat cancer, boost the immune system, fight inflammation and infections, and treat kidney disease, to name just a few of their uses. Ancient Egyptians believed mushrooms conferred immortality—or at least long life.
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Just a side note on this article. I have Belgian Tervurens and about 4 years ago one of them came down with Lymphoma. My friend recommended putting him on mushrooms. I started all of them on a tincture of therapeutic mushrooms as a supplement in their food. The mushrooms did nothing to help with the cancer but my female, who has epilepsy had been having seizures since she was 3 years old. At the time I started mushroom she was 7 and on anti seizure medication. Even on the medication she was having grand mal seizures at least once a month and sometimes in clusters. I thought she was not long for this world. Within a month or two after starting on the mushrooms her seizures pretty much stopped. She has not had a grand mal episode in over 4 years. I do believe she has had a couple of petite mals but nothing like what was happening before. I looked up mushrooms and seizures and found some anecdotal things for children with epilepsy. My vet poo poo’s it. I can’t say for sure. But No harm no foul.