Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

What is Medicinal Mushroom

22 Jul 2025 · 0 min

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A brief conversational transcript explaining what 'medicinal mushrooms' are: the visible, above-ground fruiting body of a fungal organism used for medicine because it contains healing compounds. The speakers note that mycelium (the below-ground or unseen fungal network) also has some medicinal benefits, but one speaker prefers using the mushroom itself due to higher compound content and historical use.

What is medicinal mushrooms and why do we care?
Yeah, so, I mean, mushrooms are the.
Above ground portion or the visible portion of the more broader fungal organism. And then medicinal just means that they have healing properties.
So it's.
The part of the fungal organism that we see.
That is used.
For medicine.
Basically the part of the.
Fungal organism that we don't see. The mycelium also has some medicinal benefits.
But I really prefer to use the.
Mushroom itself. It has more medicinal compounds and it's what's been used for centuries.