Yet mushrooms are poorly understood, and the field of medicinal mushrooms is still in ... from ailments such as cancer and dementia. 1 of 10 Blue oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus): Studies have shown ...

For roughly a century, ever since Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, fungi have proven to be a ...

Toadstools are non-edible and poisonous. There are edible and medicinal species of mushrooms in our part of the tropics and this writer has encountered numerous sites where these flourish.