Hi, Dirt.

I am hoping that you really hit it, on this trade .... OR ... on many others to follow,

If you are looking into medicinal mushrooms and Eastern traditional medicine, you may wish to further your research ... not with Chinese traditional medicine, but with Korean.

Korean medicine, and to a lesser degree Japanese, utilized mushrooms to a far greater extent than Chinese.

If you know anyone that reads Hangul, have them help you search the net and research varying and sundry sites.

Moreover, it has been found that it is far better to utilize the dry mushrooms and make tea, as opposed to using extracts.

Around a decade ago, I had an oncologist that was certain that I suffered from strange type of bone marrow cancer, non Hodgkins ... supposedly very rare.

I was taking a walk along some nature trail with some friends. We left the trail and got a tad misplaced (lost). One of the people was a Korean lady and she almost screamed in delight when looking up at this large dead tree. It was covered with these large purple mushrooms .... these are the ones that are rather like a tree, in that they don't die off each year ...they actually get rings for each year of age.

She told me that was what I needed to treat my malady. I have no idea where she got any 9information, but those mushrooms came down. I dried them, cut them and started brewing tea to her specifications.

Three months into that stuff, my blood cell counts were great. Whereas, it was difficult to even stay awake beyond half an hour, I had fully recovered my energy and I was sold. Idjit doctor thought it was nothing more than remission and wouldn't buy into the mushroom idea.

More than ten years later ... it obviously wasn't remission.

There are so many different mushrooms for so many different purposes. I spent several years semi-following the stuff. However, I am not the least bit educated on it to give any kind of advice.

Seriously, find someone that can read Hangul and start searching. Many of the "cures" are not solely mushrooms, but there are many youtube channels that address many different traditional treatments. So, if you want to have fun, have someone help you that can speak Korean and read Hangul.

Once you get into the hang of it, you'll be out harvesting, if not growing, your own.

And, may your mother have many more healthy and joyous years.