Potent & Unique properties

of

Mushroom remedies

Antrodia camphorata

Presented by

Dr. Sudhakar Kokate

Director PPRC, India

Taxonomy

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Kingdom: Mycoteae

Division: Amastigomycota

Sub-division: Basidiomytina

Class: Hymenomycetes

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Order: Aphyllophorales

Family: Polyporaceae

Genus: Taiwanofungus

Species: Camphoratus

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Taiwan mushroom

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Introduction

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Well known traditional medicinal fungus in

Taiwan since 18th century

Used as a remedy:

- for drug & food intoxications

- diarrhoea

- abdominal pain

- hypertension

- itchy skin PPRC/INDIA 08

Description

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Uniquely grown & found in Taiwan

Only grows on rotten & wet inner wall of

the heart wood of the camphor trees

Cinnamomum kanehirai Hay Lauraceae or

Cinnamomum camphora Lauraceae or

highly humid area

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Parts used in

Medicine

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1. Mycelia

2. Fruiting bodies

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Medicinal uses

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1. For painful muscles & bone injuries

2. For itchy skin

3. Diarrhoea

4. Vomiting

5. Cold – flu

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6. Fever

7. Colic & Menalgia pains

8. Diabetes

9. Anti-tumour

10.Anti-inflammatory

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11.Good for lowering serum cholesterol

12.Lipid & triglyceride levels

13.Sedative & analgesic activities

14.Headache

15.Motion sickness

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Recent progress

in

Medicinal uses

of

T. comphoratus

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1. Free radical scavenging

2. Anti-oxidative capabilities

3. Hepato-protective capability

4. Anti-hepatitis B-virus (Anti HBV)

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5. Neuro-protective

6. Immuno-modulator

7. Anti-cancer

- human premyeloytic leukemia H1-60 cells

- bladder cancer cells

- prostate cancer cells

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