{"id":149,"date":"2008-10-16T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T01:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-10-16T18:34:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T01:34:01","slug":"medicinal-mushrooms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Medicinal Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i got chinese herbs to take.\u00c2\u00a0 apparently one of the hot topics in herbalism is mushrooms.\u00c2\u00a0 certain mushrooms are immunostimulants.\u00c2\u00a0 three types in particular are the focus of most of the studies: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/mskcc\/html\/69279.cfm\">shitake<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/mskcc\/html\/69294.cfm\">maitake<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/mskcc\/html\/69353.cfm\">reishi<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 i regularly saute the first two, but i&#8217;ve never seen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lingzhi#Modern_scientific_studies\">reishi<\/a> before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/270px-ganoderma_lucidum_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150\" title=\"ganoderma_lucidum\" src=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/270px-ganoderma_lucidum_01.jpg\" alt=\"ganoderma_lucidum\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>so i was in chinatown two days ago, and i thought to stop into one of the dried good stores.\u00c2\u00a0 frankly i was expecting total epic failure, but the first person i talked to got very excited and walked to the back of the store and showed me this box.\u00c2\u00a0 and explained that it was the extract of the red reishi mushroom.\u00c2\u00a0 the spores are ground up in capsules.<\/p>\n<p>he also tried to sell me some other herbal supplements for &#8220;manly potency.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 i passed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/photo-39.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-151\" title=\"Reishi Mushroom Extract\" src=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/photo-39.jpg\" alt=\"Reishi Mushroom Extract\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/photo-39.jpg 640w, https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/photo-39-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i got chinese herbs to take.\u00c2\u00a0 apparently one of the hot topics in herbalism is mushrooms.\u00c2\u00a0 certain mushrooms are immunostimulants.\u00c2\u00a0 three types in particular are the focus of most of the studies: shitake, maitake, and reishi.\u00c2\u00a0 i regularly saute the first two, but i&#8217;ve never seen reishi before. so i was in chinatown two days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medicinal Mushrooms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,46],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-food","tag-naturopathic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}