Best Healing Mushrooms

For over five thousand years, mushrooms have been used as effective medicines. Now, researchers are rediscovering the amazing value of these traditional medicinals as well as uncovering new benefits - benefits that can safely and naturally improve your health and well-being. Written by Dr. Georges M. Halpern, a top medical scientist, this easy-to use guide provides a fresh look at the history and uses of six healing mushrooms: Cordyceps sinensis, maitake, reishi, shiitake, Agaricus blazei and Trametes versicolor.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Georges M. Halpern, MD, PhD, attended medical school at the University of Paris, France. He subsequently received a PhD from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Paris XI— Chatenay Malabry. A Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, Dr. Halpern is board certified in internal medicine and allergy, and is Past-Professor of Medicine at the University of California— Davis. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.