Since the dawn of time, humans have foraged for mushrooms for food to use in culinary dishes, as well as to use for medicinal purposes. In traditional Eastern medicine, mushrooms are the drug of choice and hailed for their medicinal powers. Three thousand years ago, the Chinese would place moldy soybean curd on skin infections as a healing agent. Other cultures would place warm earth (which contained certain molds and fungus) on injuries as first aid measures. Our ancient ancestors understood that different molds and fungus were beneficial to our health, now it is our time to relearn those natural medicines.
