Health from mushrooms - Sinikka Piippo, Pertti Salo

The health effects of mushrooms and detailed information about the ingredients contained in mushrooms for the first time in a book.

The book highlights the extensive beneficial effects of mushrooms in the prevention of inflammation, immune defense, tumor prevention, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, skin care and many other health problems.

The richly illustrated book presents mushrooms that grow in Finland, can be grown and can be purchased here. All the mushrooms included in the book have proven to improve health on a large scale.

Such mushrooms include, for example, enoki, or winter root, champignons, champignons, champignons, champignons, champignons and other champignons, parasites, maitake, matsutake, honey mushrooms, porcini and coral acorns, baguettes, wood ears, ruskuts, siitake, scaly ink mushrooms, tats, sardines, diagonal and white and yellow cabin.

A description, growing places, distribution, ingredients, health effects, use as food and/or herb, and warnings are given for each mushroom species or genus.

In addition, the book tells about the history of the use of mushrooms here and elsewhere, the cultivation, collection and preservation of mushrooms, as well as the preparation of mushrooms for food and medicine.