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Fungi and Water
Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
Maitake is the Japanese name for the edible mushroom Grifola frondosa species belonging to the genus Grifola, family Meripilaceae, division Basidiomycetes. Maitake is the Japanese name that means ‘dancing mushroom’ because in Japanese, mai means dance and takemeans mushroom. It is a recognized culinary and medicinal polypore mushroom with a diverse number of physiologically active compounds (47–51). Maitake mainly occurs in the northern temperate forests of Asia, Europe, and eastern North America. In Japan, it is found in the northern part (47–50). Wild maitake is characterized by a large fruiting body with overlapping caps and heavy mass (clumps may weigh many pounds), and often grows at the base of stumps and on the roots of dead or dying deciduous trees such as oaks, elms, persimmons, and more (47, 50). Maitake has been eaten as food in Japan and China since antiquity. People also used it to make medicine. Maitake cultivation is a recent development. Since the mid-1980s, maitake is commercially cultivated in Japan and elsewhere for use as a dietary supplement (47, 49–50).
Selected Botanicals and Plant Products That Lower Blood Glucose (Continued)
Published in Robert Fried, Richard M. Carlton, Type 2 Diabetes, 2018
Robert Fried, Richard M. Carlton
Effective and safe treatments of Type 2 diabetes patients were reported focusing on overcoming peripheral insulin resistance with edible mushrooms. According to a report in the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, a polysaccharide fraction of maitake (Grifola frondosa; SX fraction, p.o.; a.k.a. Hen of the woods) showed antihyperglycemic action in patients with Type 2 diabetes (Konno, Aynehchi, Dolin et al. 2002).
Clinical Anticancer Use of Harmal: Two Cases
Published in Ephraim Shmaya Lansky, Shifra Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, Harmal, 2017
Ephraim Shmaya Lansky, Shifra Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen
Ongoing, she also had adhered to a ketogenic diet, and taken orally a daily Pomegranate Emulsion containing any number of ethanolic herbal (including mycological) extracts from this group, generally with noted antiovarian cancer activity, including Annona squamosa, Ganoderma lucidum, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Grifola frondosa, Humulus lupulus, Ligusticum wallichii, Panax ginseng, Scutellaria baicalensis, S. barbata, and Tripterygium wilfordii.
Botryosphaeran Attenuates Tumor Development and the Cancer Cachexia Syndrome in Walker-256 Tumor-Bearing Obese Rats and Improves the Metabolic and Hematological Profiles of These Rats
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2021
Patrícia K. Comiran, Mariana C. Ribeiro, John H. G. Silva, Kamila O. Martins, Izabella A. Santos, Ana Emilia F. Chiaradia, Amadeu Z. Silva, Robert F. H. Dekker, Aneli M. Barbosa-Dekker, Pâmela Alegranci, Eveline A. I. F. Queiroz
In addition, Rop et al. (38) demonstrated that a (1→3)-β-D-glucan (grifolan) from Grifola frondosa was effective in increasing the production of insulin by pancreatic β cells, and concluded that β-glucan was a good control for glycemia. Thus, the reduction in glycaemic levels of the OTB group by botryosphaeran may be related to the hypoglycemic action observed for botryosphaeran (15) and other β-glucans (39). Similarly, our research group reported that botryosphaeran reduced the glycaemic levels in obese rats without tumors that were induced on a high-fat and high-sugar diet (18). Furthermore, the results of the OGTT (Oral glucose tolerance test) show that the glucose levels increased gradually in the CTB and OTB groups, suggesting an effect of botryosphaeran on the gut decreasing the absorption of glucose and delaying the postprandial glycaemic peak (Fig. 1C).