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Article: Potent medicine for the immune system.
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Medicinal Mushrooms: Ancient Remedies for Modern Ailments
by Georges M. Halpern, MD, PhD and Andrew H. Miller
M. Evans and Company, Inc. 216 East 49th Street, New York, New York 10017 USA
Softcover, 2002, $14.95, 172 pp.
In the beginning of this book, Dr. Halpern relates how his father became a mycologist by necessity, needing to find food when he was close to starvation during his childhood and later, in Siberia. He says of his father: "He taught me about the cepes, chanterelles, and trompettes-de-la-mort when we were hiding from the French police and the Gestapo in 1941." This little vignette gives a hint of the lively prose and ...