TREATEMNET OF CANCER BY MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS

A term combining the words “nutrition” and “pharmaceutical,” is a food or food product that provides health and medical benefits, including the prevention and treatment of diseases. They have shownactivities like antioxidant, effect on cholesterol, anti-hormone activity and in treatment of cancer.Different species like tramates versicolor, a cancer drug called polysaccharide-k, which counter-act the immune system depressing action of common chemotherapeutic drug. Grifola frondosa has anti-cancer activity. Agaricus subrufescens shows similar effect. Agaricus bisporus shows inhibition of breastcancer development. Similarly other species like Lentinula edodes, Hericum erinaceus Flammulina velutipes shows effect.