A primer on what’s true and not true about mushrooms.
References
Medicinal Mushrooms
Fly Agaric
The Misunderstood Magic Mushroom
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Category Archives: Food
Turmeric
Turmeric, part of the culinary and medical legacy of India, has taken the world by storm in recent years.
But are people using it correctly?
Predictably, once the merchandisers got involved, they were not.
Luckily, preparing turmeric correctly to get its full benefit (vs buying it in capsule form) is not complicated.
NOTE: If you are taking Pharma products that thin your blood, please research the risk of these drugs. … Read more
Beware of fraudulent mushroom products
A public service video from Adam Haritan’s excellent Learn Your Land website.
Adama really knows his mushrooms and he talks about the reliability of commercially sold “wild” mushrooms.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Plant Wisdom’s greatest hits
This might be the last time you hear from me for a while.
There is a ton of life- changing information on the Plant Wisdom site.
I have put some of our “greatest hits” together on one page.
I hope you will take advantage of it and share it widely with people who need it now.
One thing we can always count on are the plants. We just have to … Read more
A visit with Elder Bertha Skye
McMaster University is located in Hamilton, Ontario, an industrialized city on the shores of Lake Ontario, south of Toronto.
This is a description of the program there that Elder Bertha Skye is part of.
The Indigenous Students Health Sciences (ISHS) office is solely dedicated to providing services and supports for the academic success and wellbeing of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis students in the Faculty of Health Sciences at … Read more
The Threefold nature of plants and reading the Book of Nature
The Threefold nature of plants and reading the Book of Nature
A fascinating conversation with Dr. Thomas Cowan.
We found this video here:
https://www.gardensall.com/specialty-crops/
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Lion’s Mane and mushrooms for brain health
Kevin Spelman PhD
Stimulating nerve growth factor and protecting the brain
Hericium erinaceus is also known as “Lion’s Mane.”
In Asia, there’s a long tradition (thousands of years) of using mushrooms for healing.
Since no one can make billions from them, you’re unlikely to see 100 commercials about them every night on TV so we have to figure it out on our own.
Mushrooms as medicine – Paul Stamets
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Burdock root chai
Click here to watch how to forage and prepare burdock root chai
After you watch Diana’s lesson, you might be interested in the Plant Wisdom interview with her. You can click here to listen to the interview.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Demolishing mushroom myths
Adam Haritan of LearnYourLand.com demolishes many of the “what’s safe/what’s not safe” mushroom myths.
Here’s Adam’s course on mushroom foraging.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Dandelions – Humanity’s long term companion
This informative survey on the history and benefits of the dandelion comes from YouTube’s “The History Guy.”
It answers a big mystery:
“How did we come to spend millions of dollars every year to spray toxins in our environment to kill one of the most useful and health-giving plants on Earth?”
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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