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This is a two-part class!

Part One:

• Review of mushroom biology & ecology through the medicinal lens

• Medicinal Ethnomycology

• Deep dive into fungal constituents: how the medicine fungi make for themselves is also medicine for us

• Grounding sensational claims in actual research: discussing in vitro, in vivo, human clinical trials

• Navigating the flood of medicinal mushroom products

• Medicine making techniques:

  • teas & broths

  • triple extraction tinctures

  • powdered extracts

  • syrups

  • face creams & salves

• Q&A

Part Two:

• Honorable harvesting practices for medicinal fungi

• Some common medicinal fungi (with a focus on mushrooms in the Bay Area bioregion)

  • identification

  • look-alikes

  • traditional/Indigenous uses

  • constituents

  • past & present research with a focus on human clinical trials

  • species-specific harvesting practices

• Q&A