Sun Mushroom

Clinical Notes. Primarily researched on Brazilian strains used as immune adjunct in cancer agaritine has dual anti-tumor/toxic potential no standard energetics/tastes in Western/TCM sources reviewed fruiting body preferred over mycelium

Therapy. Agaricus is seldom used, but possesses undoubted power over the secretions and the nervous system. The chief uses that have been made of it, and for these even the muscarine sulphate or nitrate have been mostly employed, are in colliquative night-sweating from debilitating diseases, and profuse sweating in the daytime; and to restrain the excess of urine in polyuria, or so-called diabetes insipidus.

Action and Toxicology. The chief toxic action of agaricus is probably due to muscarine, which produces ptyalism, weeping, vomiting, depressed circulation, difficult breathing, muscular weakness, minutely contracted pupils, tetanic contraction of the viscera with subsequent relaxation of the bowels, when violent peristalsis takes place, paralysis and death.

primary-actions. Sun Mushroom acts primarily as: Immunomodulator, Immunostimulant, Antineoplastic. Secondary actions include Antimicrobial, Antiviral, Antioxidant, Hypoglycemic, Antiallergic.