TREATEMNET OF CANCER BY MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS
Journal Title: International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology - Year 2010, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
A term combining the words “nutrition” and “pharmaceutical,” is a food or food product that provides health and medical benefits, including the prevention and treatment of diseases. They have shown activities like antioxidant, effect on cholesterol, anti-hormone activity and in treatment of cancer. Different species like tramates versicolor, a cancer drug called polysaccharide-k, which counter-act the immune system depressing action of common chemotherapeutic drug. Grifola frondosa has anti-cancer activity. Agaricus subrufescens shows similar effect. Agaricus bisporus shows inhibition of breast cancer development. Similarly other species like Lentinula edodes, Hericum erinaceus Flammulina velutipes shows effect.
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B. Aisya
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