Page 80Incidentally, the website of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North
Korea) is said to present a table summarizing the clinical results observed in 50
patients with diverse malignancies such as long liver stomach: larynx breast and
survival cancers as well as lymphoma. I couldn’t find it (very user unfriendly
site). In any case, you would expect me to warn young that the Korean
government may be tried to enhance the potential export product with fake
science. But if it was totally reliable information it would not surprise me, since it
aligns with what we already know from credible scientific sources.
Let me now just name a few more species. You can research more of these
yourself. Or wait for version 2.0 of Cancer Confidential!
Other mushrooms with recognized anti-tumor capability are:
Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus), Cordyceps sinensis, Royal Sun Agaric (Agaricus
blazei), Agaricus bisporus (portobello strain) is good for skin cancers, and Chaga
(Inonotus obliquus).
It just remains to enter a few words of caution:
Firstly, on no account go out and start harvesting mushrooms yourself and
trying to make home-brew extracts. You’ll likely kill yourself. The Fungi are an
enormously large range of organisms and the difference between safe ones and
those which kill can be very subtle. It takes an expert to safely identify edible
mushrooms.
Of course if you live in France or anywhere civilized which really KNOWS food,
you can go into any pharmacy and they will identify any mushrooms you gather.
But really, you are safer not collecting your own, unless you are a botanist or
better still a mycologist (fungologist).
There is an additional problem, which may not be obvious to you, which is
getting a predictable dose. It’s something which bugs even commercial fungi
extracts which you may find for sale on the Net. Let me warn you that the vast
majority of products offered are totally worthless, no matter even if the vendor is
sincere and well-meaning. It is very difficult to get a regular, effective dose and
keep it consistent. Most mushroom “extracts” tested contain little or nothing of
worth to you in your fight against cancer.
See, part of the difficulty is that fungi are protected by a membrane coat of
chitin. That’s same stuff insect cases and your fingernails are made of. Just
grinding up mushrooms isn’t going to get at the best of the content. It needs
a heat extraction process to get at the good stuff, by breaking down the chitin.