Wild mushrooms are a vital source of income and nutrition for many poor communities and
of value to recreational foragers. Literature relating to the edibility of mushroom species …

Background Mushrooms exist as an integral and vital component of the ecosystem and are
very precious fungi. Mushrooms have been traditionally used in herbal medicines for many …

Wild edible fungi are an important group of non-wood forest products: they are used as both
food and medicine and provide income to many forest users and traders. This publication …

Le CTA a pour mission de fournir des services qui améliorent l'accès des pays ACP à
l'information pour le développement agricole et rural, et de renforcer les capacités de ces …

Herbal remedies can result in indirect health risks when they delay or replace a more
effective form of conventional treatment or when they compromise the efficacy of …

Studies have been carried out on Pleurotus tuber-regium, a tropical sclerotial basidiomycete
obtained in Nigeria. Both the Sclerotium and the fruit bodies are edible. The economic …

Discover neglected wild food sources—that can also be used as medicine! The long-
standing notion of “food as medicine, medicine as food,” can be traced back to Hippocrates …

Despite their well-known role as pests, termites also provide essential ecosystem services.
In this paper, we undertook a comprehensive review of studies on human–termite …

Abstract Background Menge District has long been inhabited by people who have a long
tradition of using wild mushrooms mainly as food, source of income, and medicine …

For centuries, mushrooms have been appreciated as sources of food nutrients and
pharmacologically important compounds useful in medicine. Yet not all the medicinal …