MAITAKE (grifola frondosa)

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	MAITAKE
	*grifola frondosa*

Name
MAITAKE

Scientific Name
grifola frondosa

MAITAKE

Used parts and where it grows: Maitake is a very great mushroom (like basketball ball), that grows in mountains of the northeast of Japan as well as in North America and Europe. Famous by its flavor and famous medicinal properties, Maitake also knows like the "seta bailadora" the 1 legend maintains that who found the rare mushroom they began to dance of joy. Others attribute the name to the form in which the frutosos bodies of the mushroom mount on others, resembling itself butterflies dancing.

Maitake is extremely sensible to environmental changes, which has created many problems to which they cultivate this mushroom. Only recently the Japanese farmers have been successful producing organic mushrooms maitake of high quality, allowing therefore one more a ampler availability in Japan and the United States. The frutoso body and micelio of maitake are used medicinally.

Maitake has been used in connection with the following conditions (to talk about to the individual medicinal use for complete information):

Medicinal use:

Aid in chemotherapy, Aid in VIH, you increase the function immune, is recommended in Infection

Historical or traditional use (it can or it cannot be guaranteed by scientific studies): Historically, maitake has been used like a tonic and adaptógeno. Along with other mushrooms "medicinales", such as shiitake and reishi, maitake was used like a food to help to promote health and vitality. Traditionally, the consumición of the mushroom was thought to prevent high the arterial tension and the cancer -- two applications that have been the focal point of the modern investigation.

Active components: A common denominator between herbarios mushroom and adaptogenos is the presence of polisacáridos complex in his structure. These active components have the ability to act like immunomoduladores and, like so, it investigates his potential paper in cancer and treatment of the AIDS. The present polisacáridos ones in Maitake have a unique structure and are between most powerful than it will study to date. 2 the primary polisacárido one, beta-D-glucan, are absorbed very well when it is taken orally and are at the moment under study for the prevention and the treatment of the cancer and like tool of support for infection VIH. 3 4 This investigation is still preliminary and requires confirmation.

How much I must take? Maitake can be used like a food or tea. Maitake is also available like a capsule or tablet that contains the fruitful body of the set of maitake. In maitake, the body of the fruit is higher in polisacáridos than micelio, that is reason why it is recommended. The normal taking is of 3-7 grams of daily supplements of maitake.

There are indirect effect or interactions? Used according to the recommended thing above, there have been information of no no indirect effect with maitake.

The information on the effects of a supplement or a grass determined in a certain condition has been described in the terms of the methodology or the source of support data (for example: clinical, double-I blind, put-analysis, or traditional use). For the convenience of the reader, the information in the vector that enumerates the supplements for the certain conditions also categoriza. The criteria for the classifications are: " primary " it indicates that there are reliable and relatively constant scientific datas that show an aid in the disease. " secondary " it indicates that conflict exists, little, or only preliminary studies that suggest an aid in the disease or that the aid in the disease is minimum. " another one " it indicates that there is little scientific aid and/or helps in the minimum disease.

References:

1, Hobbs C. Medicinal Mushrooms. Santa Cruz, CA: Botanica Press, 1995, 110-15.

2, Nanba H, Hamaguchi A.M., Kuroda H. chemical The structure of an antitumor polysaccharide in fruit bodies of leafy Grifola (maitake). Chem Pharm Bull 1987;35:1162-68.

3, Yamada and, Nanba H, Kuroda H. Antitumor effect of orally administered extracts from fruit body of leafy Grifola (maitake). Chemotherapy 1990;38:790-96.

4, Nanba H. in-alive Immunostimulant activity and anti-HIV activity in vitro of 3 branched b-1-6-glucans extracted from maitake mushrooms (leafy Grifola). VIII International Conference on AIDS, Amsterdam, 1992 [ abstract ].

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