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Turkey Tail Mushroom Fruit Bodies 100ml bottle
£19.99
Ingredients:
Each 1ml/20 drops contains a traditionally prepared hot water extract of Coriolus versicolor/Turkey Tail fruit bodies, equivalent to 250mg of dried turkey tail, in a base of vegetable glycerine 70%.
This product does not contain mycelia or growing medium, only whole fruit bodies.
Direction for Use:
For general purpose take 20 drops/1ml in a little cold water, three times a day. It can also be added to food, juices, smoothies, sauces etc. It can be added to hot or cold water. It is perfectly safe to increase or decrease the amount you take daily. Children may take the same amount.
The Turkey Tail is cultivated in China.
THE MUSHROOM GLYCERITES
THE CONCEPT:
Over the last few years it seems as though companies involved in producing mushroom supplements have been engaged in an “arms race” of sorts, with each company trying to outdo the other in terms of how many beta-glucans or other of the important constituents of mushrooms end up in their supplements. The problem with this “pharmaceutical” approach to herbal extracts is that you end up with standardised or concentrated extracts that bear little similarity to the whole natural herb. You end up with a pharmaceutical!
This approach distracts us from the fact that these mushrooms have thousands of years of use; their reputations growing way beyond other herbs and medicines. Reishi for example, has been practically worshipped thanks to its reliability and effectiveness. All this incredible history was not based on pharmaceutical extraction or concentrating and isolating active components…it was based on simply making tea from them! Boiling them in water, simple hot water extraction.
So, what we have done with our extracts is to take a step back in time, to traditional methods using whole mushroom fruiting bodies cultivated on organic substrate. Our mushrooms are extracted by the traditional hot water extract and then mixed into a base of vegetable glycerine. Deliberately moving away from pharmaceutically manipulated extracts and back to whole, food state mushroom extracts, as it was done for centuries.
TURKEY TAIL
“The Forest Powerhouse”
Turkey tail is an extremely common sight in the woodlands of Britain. Its wavy edged, multi- coloured, oyster shell shaped fruiting bodies adorn fallen branches and old tree stumps throughout the autumn and winter months.
Turkey tail is one of the most studied herbs to date with over 40 years of scientific research to its name. Backing this up is a history of use, particularly in the Asian systems of medicine, stretching back over two thousand years! It was called ‘Yun Zhi’ or ‘cloud mushroom’ and was used to fire up the immune system and promote longevity. The modern interest in Turkey tail revolves around one of its active components, an immune stimulating beta glucan called polysaccharide-K also known as Krestin. It was patented in 1968 under the name “Krestin” and was approved in 1976 for the treatment of some cancers.
Clinical use in Japan was commenced in 1977. After re-evaluation in 1989, PSK was approved for use in combination with chemotherapy to prolong survival of patients with various cancers. Interestingly, PSK accounts for 25% of the cost of national cancer care in Japan. In 1984 it was ranked as the 19th on the list of the world’s most successful drugs with annual sales of $255 million. Most people would never realise that this beautiful fungus has had such an incredible life outside of the woods!
Our turkey tail is grown on bark to mimic its natural environment.
