Coriolus

Coriolus(Coriolus versicolor, Trametes versicolor, outcove, Turkey Tail Mushroom, Chinese Yun Zhi, Japanese Kawaratake) is a wood-boring fungus that belongs to the diseases and is not edible. Coriolus grows all year round and can be found mostly on live injured and dead trunks or stumps of deciduous trees in temperate climates of Asia, North America and Europe. The fruiting bodies of the fungus are fan-shaped, hence the English name, and form clusters that are roof-like in arrangement. The cap itself is about 2-8 cm in diameter. It is characterised by beige bands on a brown or grey ground, the surface of the hat looks velvety.

Coriolus is well known from long ago. In comprehensive texts dating back to 1368 AD, i.e. from the period of ancient China and the Ming dynasty, it is recorded that Coriolus was used to strengthen the physical, mental state and enhance the qi energy. Coriolus is still used as a "medicine" in traditional Chinese medicine. It was not discovered for the "scientific" world until the 1960s-70s. Then, thanks to a Japanese scientist, a polysaccharide called PKS was extracted from Coriolus, which soon proved to have immunostimulating effects. Further experiments during 1965 then confirmed that PKS also has anti-cancer effects. In Japan, around 1980, it was also put into practice, being added to standard anti-cancer treatment. The same is true in Korea, where Coriolus is given to up to 70% of cancer patients. Since the 1990s, a large number of clinical trials have been and are being conducted to confirm the efficacy of Coriolus.

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