A fan-shaped fruit body resembling a turkey's tail with different colors such as brown, blue and gray. Kawaratake in Japanese means "mushroom by the river bank".
Health Benefits:
- Contains proteoglycans (PSP), beta- glucans (1-4, 1-3) and egosterol ( pro- vitamin D2) with a very powerful anti-oxidant and anti-tumor activities.
- Prevents and suppresses tumor or cancer cell growth (nasopharynx, eso- phagus, gastric, colon, rectum, breast, lung, ovary, endometrium, cervix, prostate, blood or leukemia, skin or melanoma) and metastasis. It also increases the therapeutic effects and reduces the damaging side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
- Cardiovascular protection. It prevents and reduces the risk of developing coronary heart diseases such as atherosclerosis and heart attack. It lowers total blood and LDL "bad" cholesterol level and increases HDL "good" cholesterol level.
- Prevents and treats liver diseases like hepatitis and cirrhosis.
Reference:
The Natural Healers
by: Dr. Butch Villena
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