Mushrooms have an effect on various therapeutics. as a fungi can it be used as an anti bacterial or anti viral agent? If there is any evidence on that please provide them asap.
Planta Med. 2012 Nov;78(16):1707-18. doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1315370. Epub 2012 Sep 21.
A review on antimicrobial activity of mushroom (Basidiomycetes) extracts and isolated compounds.
An examination of antibacterial and antifungal properties of constituents of Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) and oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus) mushrooms.
Dear Kabir, I would have loved to provide/help you to write a review article on "Drug Research/Uses/Medicinal properties of MUSHROOMS".
Your question is of very basic type. Even a simple google search can give you this answer. I conducted a google search on mushrooms uses and got About 1,59,000 results (0.33 seconds) .
With "MUSHROOMS+"medicinal uses"+pdf" I got About 123 results (0.23 seconds)
latest paper I could get is:
Medicinal Uses of Mushrooms in Nigeria: Towards Full and ...
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Apr 2, 2011 - For centuries, mushrooms have been appreciated as sources of food nutrients and pharmacologically important compounds useful in medicine.
However,
You should have searched a database like Chemical Abstract (CAS)/SciFinder to get the most updated and comprehensive information on mushrooms.
If you want I can compile a bibliographic database on "Medicinal uses of mushrooms" for you to write a Review Paper.
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2: Dong CH, Yang T, Lian T. A comparative study of the antimicrobial,
antioxidant, and cytotoxic activities of methanol extracts from fruit bodies and
fermented mycelia of caterpillar medicinal mushroom Cordyceps militaris
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3: Kunjadia PD, Nagee A, Pandya PY, Mukhopadhyaya PN, Sanghvi GV, Dave GS.
Medicinal and antimicrobial role of the oyster culinary-medicinal mushroom
Pleurotus ostreatus (higher Basidiomycetes) cultivated on banana agrowastes in
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4: Vazirian M, Faramarzi MA, Ebrahimi SE, Esfahani HR, Samadi N, Hosseini SA,
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5: Žurga S, Pohleven J, Renko M, Bleuler-Martinez S, Sosnowski P, Turk D, Künzler
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Edible and medicinal mushrooms seldom have very potent antimicrobial properties compared to wild inedible varieties. Sharing our paper on Hericium erinaceus
I send you informations about therapeutic potential of mushrooms (see attachments).
Have a nice day.
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