TCM Basics 101: Supermarket Herbs - White Fungus
TCM Nature: Neutral
TCM Taste: Sweet
TCM Meridian Affinity: Stomach, Kidney, Lungs
Benefits:
· Nourishes Lungs
· Promotes healthy, youthful skin
· Strengthens the immune system
· Neuroprotective and great for brain health
· Promotes heart health
· Anti-diabetic and anti-obesity
Spirituality:
Fungi, most notably mushrooms, have been used and revered as sacramental tools to communicate with the spiritual world by many cultures for thousands of years.
Fungi are widely known for spiritual or sacred associations and play key roles in rituals, ceremonies, stories, and beliefs, which are also reflected in the names of some species. The antiquity of peoples’ relationships with fungi is likely very deep, extending back to ancient Asian or European ancestors of Pleistocene times, whose descendants on those continents have used them in similar ways.