The Medical Mushroom Starter Book is about the medical properties and physical meanings of 18 mushrooms. These mushrooms are mainly for healing purpose. They’re full of antioxidant, protein, dietary fiber for which they’re good for your diet. They have many chemical compounds like polysaccharide acid, beta-glucans, ergothioneine, agric, gallic acid, narringenin, kojic acid etc. These compounds can reduce blood sugar level, lower cholesterol, regulating heart circulatory, suppressing the formation of cancel cells,reducing a leaky gut and boost immune system. There’re other use like fighting anxiety, Improving cognitive thinking, lightening skin,dealing with neurodegenerative conditions and many more.
The book gives details about 18 mushrooms fully describing their name, location, purpose for use. Also it gives the lively and beautiful picture of each mushroom.
This book specially point out seven most important mushrooms they’re chaga mushroom, reishi mushroom,lion’s main mushroom,turkey’s tail mushroom,cordyceps sinensis mushroom,shiitake mushroom,maritake mushroom. It gives a special description of the benefits of the seven mushrooms.
Next the book take about how to take digest of the mushroom and how to make tincture. They also answer a list of the questions for the readers.
It even includes a bunch mushroom recipe to conclude the main purpose for the mushroom. They’re good to eat. Anybody can create their own remedy for healing. These mushrooms are popular among general consumer.
For some unknown word vocabulary for the mushroom, the book gives a detailed explanation.
It’s a great little handbook precise and useful.

I received an advanced review copy of this book via LT's Member Giveaway.

Although you would want to carry along a mushroom identification guide or tag along with an expert in the woods, as the author himself notes, this is a nice introductory book for those wanting to add some mushrooms into their cooking or health supplementation routine. Many people in my own life have commented that they find mushroom foraging scary, and I think this simple book is a nice way to introduce some common mushrooms, especially as several do not have any toxic lookalikes. Also appreciate the simple approach to introducing the reader to the medicinal benefits of mushroom as well as cooking, drying, and preserving strategies.
I really enjoyed the more specific harvesting and preserving instructions for Reishi and Chaga and had hoped for the same with the Lion's Mane and Turkey Tail, but I did find some additional cooking information further along in the "preparing" section. There are also seven recipes shared, including turkey tail coffee and chaga tea. I found it unusual to include the FAQs, especially as the answers are not what I'd think of for beginner use, but I personally appreciate the specific extraction information and I do think it's good for beginners to become familiar with these methods.