Alternative therapies are very common all over the world. Some are skeptical about them, others prefer to self-medicate, using the universal recipe "our grandmothers used to do that." However, there are people for whom alternative medicine has become a matter of life, but at the same time a very scientific approach to it has been chosen.
Fungotherapy - what is it and where does it come from?
One of the most interesting branches of non-traditional modern medicine is undoubtedly fungotherapy - a method of treatment with mushrooms. This unusual direction came to us from the Far East more than 2 thousand years ago. Even then, the Chinese physician Wu Xing described more than 100 different types of medicinal mushrooms growing in Japan and China.
By the way, mushroom treatment in these countries belongs to official medicine, and is used quite often and successfully. Mushroom ingredients are included not only in cosmetic and homeopathic remedies, they are actually included in the complex therapy of oncological, cardiac and a number of other serious diseases.
Russian fungotherapy
Where, if not in ourcountry, mushrooms are found everywhere? There are about 500 species of mushrooms in Russia, of which we use about 30 species for food. However, not only edible mushrooms are taken by people from the forest. Special connoisseurs sometimes take fly agarics and other inedible representatives. This suggests that the people have long known about the healing properties of mushrooms and often use them. Of course, this is not official knowledge, and it is passed from generation to generation behind the scenes, so to speak, "by word of mouth", like folklore. Therefore, it is difficult to even roughly say when this direction was born in our country. However, today in Russia, fungotherapy is already widely studied even officially, and from a medical point of view.
The largest fungotherapy center is located in St. Petersburg. It is headed by fungotherapist Irina Filippova. The biography of this woman at all stages of her life is inextricably linked with the nature of her work.
The path to fungotherapy
As Irina Filippova herself told facts from life: interest in fungotherapy arose not only because her grandfather was a great connoisseur of the healing properties of mushrooms and instilled in his granddaughter an interest in this knowledge, but also because of a predisposition to hypertension. The fact is that my grandmother and mother had serious heart problems. And Irina Filippova, after the birth of her first child - at the age of 25 - felt the first warnings of heredity, namely increased pressure, dots before her eyes, dizziness. Treatment with traditional methods did little to help. Helped solve this problemmushroom tincture at Cahors.
Neighborhood with the famous sorceress Baba Nastya, who prepared a tincture of fun, honey mushrooms, umbrella mushroom and a number of other ingredients, brought Irina Filippova invaluable knowledge about the medicinal properties of mushrooms.
Naturopath by conviction
It is not often that you meet a doctor who has worked for many years in traditional medicine, through whose hands more than one hundred seriously ill patients have passed, and who has revised his views, becoming a staunch naturopath. In this case, it is Irina Filippova. Her personal life turned her views of a very conservative physician almost 180 degrees. And this story, of course, is connected with children, because it is the illness of one's own child that is the strongest stimulus for reassessment of values.
The first child got otitis media at one month, and, naturally, a course of antibiotics was prescribed. And then allergies, the transition to bronchial asthma. And an endless vicious circle: medicines - allergies - medicines - reduced immunity - illness - medicines. And here a strong-willed decision was made, a radical change in the approach to treatment and, in general, to the lifestyle in general. The treatment consisted mainly of hardening, treatment with natural remedies and raising immunity in natural ways: sun therapy, air baths, massage, etc.
The result exceeded all expectations, the child grew up absolutely he althy. Of course, this only strengthened the belief in the correctness of the choice. And then the research and search began.like-minded people.
Mushroom greenhouse in St. Petersburg
Irina Filippova is a therapist by profession. After graduating from a medical school and having worked for several years as a medical worker, she began to study the beneficial and healing properties of various mushrooms. Behind Irina Filippova is invaluable experience and knowledge in growing mushrooms and obtaining the most valuable elements from them. Its fungocenter is engaged in the development and manufacture of various dietary supplements, which basically have mushroom components.
It is known that mushrooms very strongly absorb heavy metal compounds, so it is almost impossible to find material for the manufacture of additives in nature, especially for mass production. A network of production hangars has been built in the center of Irina Filippova, where mushrooms are grown. Under the strict control of specialists, the resulting specimens are checked in laboratories for environmental friendliness, quality and the presence of a sufficient number of useful elements.
During heat treatment, mushrooms lose their unique properties, the structure of phytoncides and polysaccharides is destroyed. Therefore, in special laboratories, sparing technology is used and a certain extract is extracted - so to speak, a concentrate of a useful substance.
Notable is also the presence of its own newspaper "Mushroom Pharmacy", through which the population is informed about new products, developments and the full range of products is described.
Branches of the center are already open in several major cities: Moscow, Yekaterinburg,Chelyabinsk.
Not a cure, but an alternative
Of course, serious illnesses, especially such as oncology, heart diseases, nerves, should by no means ignore the methods of traditional medicine. Undoubtedly, in these cases, going to the doctor is the only right decision. And even Irina Filippova tries to avoid the word "treatment" in relation to her dietary supplements. Mushroom supplements are not a panacea for all diseases, it is a method of maintaining the body and helping to activate the immune system during the period of illness and during rehabilitation. It is important to remember that neither a doctor nor anyone else can give a 100% guarantee of recovery in a particular case. The use of bioadditives is a conscious choice of every person.
Irina Filippova is shown above, the photo was taken on the Malakhov Plus program.
However, the scientific works of Irina Filippova and the research of the fungocenter indisputably prove that the properties of fungi have a positive effect on the course of the disease, and this, of course, is another weighty argument in favor of fungotherapy.
