Mushroom has tremendous medicinal properties awaiting to be explored, that can cure many diseases.

1. Potent & Unique properties
of
Mushroom remedies
Antrodia camphorata

2. Presented by
Dr. Sudhakar Kokate
Director PPRC, India

4. Taxonomy
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5.  Kingdom: Mycoteae
 Division: Amastigomycota
 Sub-division: Basidiomytina
 Class: Hymenomycetes
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6.  Order: Aphyllophorales
 Family: Polyporaceae
 Genus:Taiwanofungus
 Species: Camphoratus
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7. Taiwan mushroom
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9. Introduction
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10.  Well known traditional medicinal fungus in
Taiwan since 18th century
 Used as a remedy:
- for drug & food intoxications
- diarrhoea
- abdominal pain
- hypertension
- itchy skin
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11. Description
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12.  Uniquely grown & found inTaiwan
 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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13. Parts used in
Medicine
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14. 1. Mycelia
2. Fruiting bodies
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15. Medicinal uses
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16. 1. For painful muscles & bone injuries
2. For itchy skin
3. Diarrhoea
4. Vomiting
5. Cold – flu
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17. 6. Fever
7. Colic & Menalgia pains
8. Diabetes
9. Anti-tumour
10.Anti-inflammatory
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18. 11.Good for lowering serum cholesterol
12.Lipid & triglyceride levels
13.Sedative & analgesic activities
14.Headache
15.Motion sickness
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19. Recent progress
in
Medicinal uses
of
T. comphoratus
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20. 1. Free radical scavenging
2. Anti-oxidative capabilities
3. Hepato-protective capability
4. Anti-hepatitis B-virus (Anti HBV)
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21. 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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