Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines : Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Money, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fungi.

Materia medica, Vegetable.

Molds (Fungi).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.

Summary:

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Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Interacting: Encounters with Fungi from Birth to Death

Part I. Inward

2. Touching: Fungi on the Skin

3. Breathing: Spores in the Lungs

4. Spreading: Opportunists in the Brain

5. Digestion: Yeasts in the Gut

Part II. Outward

6. Nourishing: Molds and Mushrooms in Our Diets

7. Treating: Medicines from Fungi

8. Poisoning: Toxins in Mushrooms and Molds

9. Dreaming: Using Mushrooms to Treat Depression

10. Recycling: The Global Mycobiome

Appendix: Ghost Gut Fungi

Notes

List of Illustrations

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Money, Nicholas Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines

ISBN:

9780691236315

0691236313

OCLC:

1416189238