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— BOOK REVIEW An Mushrooms, HoBBS, Christopher. 1995. Medicinal Exploration of and Tradition, Healing, Culture. (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 95-60381, pbk, 2nd Botanica 10226 Empire ed.). Press, CA Grade, Santa Cruz, 95060, $16.95, 251 30 color photos. pp, summarizes and angi, the history use of medicinal fungi and gives practical instr hemistry, pharmacology, clinical studies, indications, and dosages of medicinal funj -lonly available in the United States, Asia and Europe and other parts of the worl History of Use a chapter packed with detailed information of medicinal uses is c Western Medicine Greek (ancient writers, the herbalists, native American India 1 A Guide to Usirig Medicinal Fungi tel Is how to gather medicinal mu:shrooms, how i how dered ext racts, powders, and pills, t how soups, and to prepare tinctiures and loses. Nutritional Value of Fun pages) an g. (5 ( recipes (4 pages) d)iscusses the n,Litrient content of edible and medicinal f Medicinal Fung. Monographs is devot,°d to 27 species of fungi. These species are di; i ; cussed under the fo common other names, descript.on and h^ibitat, range, history, chemistry pharmacolog; 7, preparatio ises, and dosage, related rem There handy roc u ent. a table entii is [1 Medicinal Mus:broom Speoe much all s that CO,Hates of the previous inf"ormation into more simpliiied an,d retrievable :abular fo rm. There short glossary of:29 mostly med: is s t gives the ;ompany Th es n products. c ommon many index incomplete names for spe that appear uimberofplac. is in a ' r The modest pric e, wealth of nformati,on carefully gleaned from a var letyofexceller i book valuabl a addition to the professional and aimateur mushroom library. One of the bes bargains avail ;t today. Harold W. Keller, I
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