Love Mushrooms? Choose among them
"Without leaves, without buds, without flowers, yet they form fruit. As a food, as a tonic and as a medicine, mushroom is the wonderful of nature." - S.T.Chang in Chang and Miles ( 1990). Hippocrates, a well-known Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and known as the ' Father of Western Medicine ', first mentioned the medicinal value of mushrooms around 400 B.C. The Aztecs considered mushrooms as ' God's flesh ' and the Romans regarded them as ' Food of God ', which was served occasionally during the celebration of festive spirit. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt believed that mushrooms had magical powers, while the Chinese treasured mushrooms as healthy food, the 'elixir of life' and used them to cure several diseases. During the reign of Alexander the Great in Ancient Greece, he provided the warriors with mushrooms, which were exported from different parts of the world. The people of Greece believed that mushr...