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The Purica Advantage

There is so much confusion today! Is it the fruitbody, or the mycelium, or an extract standardized for some particular compound? This question is not as straightforward as it seems.

The answer to this question should be based in scientific fact, not on historical usage, or on someone’s idea of what looks pretty or what feels or tastes good. There is a lot of amazingly complex biochemistry going on in the mushroom kingdom. Many new drugs are being developed from mushrooms for the treatment of many diseases like Cancer, AIDS, Diabetes and Hepatitis.

Purica’s Mushroom complexes offer outstanding products made through top quality processing.

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From spore to mycelium

From Spore to MyceliumSpore germination produces a short germ tube (hypha) growth, which creates a mesh of radiating hyphae. This produces an underground network, which connects the visible fruitbodies. As the mycelium exhausts the food sources in one area,it expands outward in a circular fashion

 

Definitions

FRUITBODY

  • the part that you see
  • spore-producing portion
  • strictly responsible for reproduction
  • equivalent to flower of plant
  • ONLY forms in response to stress in the environment...fire, flood,
  • lack of nutrients

MYCELIUM

  • growth form of organism
  • mass of interwoven thread-like roots (hyphae), network
  • stable state where all life processes occur: growth, feeding,
  • competing for survival, some reproduction
  • if cultivated, can be grown by fermentation or on natural solid
  • substrate
  • mushroom derived drugs come only from broth that mycelium is grown in
 

 

EXTRACT

  • from either fruitbody or mycelium
  • extracted with solvent to concentrate desirable portion of mushroom
  • also used to reduce less desirable portion of mushroom
  • most common solvents: water, alcohol
  • extracts are expensive and most valuable for specific application

SUBSTRATE

  • the natural environment in which an organism lives
  • the surface or medium on which an organism grows or is attached
The Short & Sweet on Mushrooms