Alternative treatments are very common around the world. Some are skeptical of them, others prefer to self-medicate, using the universal recipe "even our grandmothers did that." However, there are people for whom alternative medicine has become the work of a lifetime, but the approach to it has been chosen very scientific.
Fungotherapy - what is it and where from?
One of the most interesting branches of alternative traditional medicine is undoubtedly fungotherapy - a method for treating mushrooms. This unusual direction came to us from the Far East more than 2 thousand years ago. Even then, the Chinese doctor Wu Xing described more than 100 different types of medicinal mushrooms growing in Japan and China.
By the way, the treatment with mushrooms in these countries belongs to official medicine, and is used quite often and successfully. Mushroom ingredients are not only part of cosmetic and homeopathic remedies, they are actually included in the complex therapy of oncological, cardiac and a number of other serious diseases.
Russian fungotherapy
Where, if not in our country, are mushrooms found everywhere? In Russia, there are about 500 species of mushrooms, of which about 30 species we use for food. However, not only edible mushrooms are taken by people from the forest. Special experts sometimes take fly agaric and other inedible representatives. This suggests that people have long been aware of the healing properties of mushrooms and often use them. Of course, this is not official knowledge, and it is passed down from generation to generation behind the scenes, so to speak, “by word of mouth”, like folklore. Therefore, it’s hard to even roughly say when this direction began in our country. However, today in Russia fungotherapy is already widely studied even officially, and from a medical point of view.
The largest fungotherapy center is located in St. Petersburg. It is headed by a physician-fungotherapist Irina Filippova. The biography of this woman at all stages of life is inextricably linked with the nature of her activity.
Way to fungotherapy
As Irina Filippova herself told facts from life: interest in fungotherapy came not only because her grandfather was a great connoisseur of the healing properties of mushrooms and instilled in her granddaughter an interest in this knowledge, but also because of her predisposition to hypertension. The fact is that my grandmother and mother had serious heart problems. And Irina Filippova after the birth of her first child - at the age of 25 - felt the first warnings of heredity, namely increased pressure, points in front of her eyes, dizziness. Treatment with traditional methods did not help much. The tincture of mushrooms on Cahors helped to cope with this problem.
The neighborhood with the famous sorceress, woman Nastya, who prepared the tincture of oyster mushrooms, mushrooms, umbrella mushrooms and a number of other ingredients, brought Irina Filippova invaluable knowledge about the healing properties of mushrooms.
Naturopath by conviction
You do not often see a doctor who has worked for many years in traditional medicine, through whose hands more than a hundred seriously ill patients have passed and who has revised his views, becoming a convinced naturopath. In this case, this is Irina Filippova. Personal life unfolded her views of a very conservative physician almost 180 degrees. And this story, of course, is associated with children, because it is the illness of one’s own child that is the strongest incentive for revaluing values.
The first child fell ill with otitis media in one month, and, of course, a course of antibiotics was prescribed. And then allergies, the transition to bronchial asthma. And an endless vicious circle: medicines - allergies - medicines - lowered immunity - disease - medicines. And here a volitional decision was made, a radical change in the approach to treatment and, in general, to the lifestyle in general. The treatment consisted mainly of hardening, treatment by natural means and raising immunity in natural ways: sun therapy, air baths, massage, etc.
The result exceeded all expectations, the child grew up absolutely healthy. Of course, this only strengthened the belief in the right choice. And then research and searches for like-minded people have already begun.
Mushroom greenhouse in St. Petersburg
By specialty Irina Filippova is a general practitioner. After graduating from a medical university and having worked for several years as a medical professional, she began to study the useful and healing properties of various mushrooms. Irina Filippova has behind him invaluable experience and knowledge in cultivating mushrooms and obtaining the most valuable elements from them. Her fungus center is engaged in the development and manufacture of various dietary supplements, which basically have precisely mushroom components.
It is known that mushrooms very strongly absorb compounds of heavy metals, so it is almost impossible to find material for the manufacture of additives in nature, especially for mass production. In the center of Irina Filippova, a network of industrial hangars has been built where mushrooms are grown. Under the strict supervision of specialists, the samples obtained are checked in laboratories for environmental cleanliness, quality and the presence of a sufficient number of useful elements.
During heat treatment, mushrooms lose their unique properties, the structure of volatile and polysaccharides is destroyed. Therefore, in special laboratories they use gentle technology and extract a certain extract - a so-called concentrate of a useful substance.
Noteworthy is the presence of its own newspaper "Mushroom Pharmacy", through which the population is informed about new products, developments and a full range of products is described.
Branches of the center are already open in several large cities: Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk.
Not a cure, but an alternative
Of course, serious illnesses, especially such as oncology, cardiac ailments, nerve agents, should in no case ignore the methods of traditional medicine. Undoubtedly, in these cases, going to the doctor is the only right decision. And even Irina Filippova tries to avoid the word "treatment" in relation to her dietary supplements. Mushroom supplements are not a panacea for all diseases, it is a method of maintaining the body and helping to activate immunity during the illness and during rehabilitation. It is important to remember that neither a doctor nor anyone else can give a 100% guarantee of recovery in a particular case. The use of dietary supplements is a conscious choice of each person.
Above is Irina Filippova, the photo was taken on the Malakhov Plus program.
However, the scientific works of Irina Filippova and the studies of the fungus center indisputably prove that the properties of fungi have a positive effect on the course of the disease, and this, of course, is another weighty argument in favor of fungotherapy.