How Does Coriolus Versicolor Support Your Immune System?

Coriolus Versicolor, commonly known as the "turkey tail" in North America, is unique among the medicinal mushrooms, and is believed to have healing elements to strengthen the immune system against illness and disease.

Coriolus versicolor (turkey tail) is very well known in East Asian medicine, especially in the countries of Japan and China. It has an extensive history of use in both traditional and modern conventional practice. Of all the medicinal mushrooms like Maitake, Shiitake or Reishi, turkey tail is the one most studied by modern scientists. In Japan these mushrooms are also highly prized and sought after by people suffering from a variety of chronic conditions.

Coriolus versicolor is not a magic cure for cancer, but it can improve quality of life by reducing susceptibility to infections and other negative effects of having a suppressed immune system or those taking chemotherapy or radiation treatments.

In Coriolus versicolor the primary active compounds are polysaccharides. These polysaccharides are composed of a unique combination of amino acids and beta-glucans that are not affected by the digestive process.
It has been shown that these beta-glucans pass through the gut wall unchanged and into the blood stream and therefore effective when used orally.

The beta-glucans act as "biological response modifiers" in that they activate many components of the immune system. Clinical research has consistently demonstrated the ability of Coriolus beta glucans to protect, support, and improve immune function in healthy people and those people recovering from surgery and/or receiving treatments where immune suppression is a prominent feature.

Coriolus polysaccharides are the most thoroughly researched and most successful all-natural immune supplement in the world and the only immune product to be proven in independent, published clinical studies. More than 400 studies have been published that demonstrate the significant immunomodulating properties of coriolus versicolor in both healthy people and those affected by chronic conditions. This mushroom stimulates immune function for people who have had surgical treatment for cancer and is also widely used for immune support thus reducing the negative side effects for those undergoing chemotherapy or radiation.

Precautions
No side effects from taking turkey tail have ever been reported in its many thousands of years of historical use or in modern research.

Turkey tail should not be taken with immunosuppressive drugs, such as those prescribed to people with organ transplants, without first consulting a health care professional.

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