Since ancient times, mushrooms have been used as food and medicine, due to their nutritional and healing properties.
Mushrooms used in the field of health are called medicinal mushrooms. Current scientific studies have demonstrated their medicinal value, thanks to their richness in bioactive substances, which fulfill functions in the body to promote good health, due to their ability to eliminate toxicity from the body and their anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antioxidant, antiviral or immuno-nutritional effects.