The Language of Plants by Julia Graves

Author:Julia Graves [Graves, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781584201038
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
Published: 2012-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

Reishi mushrooms (left); Regrowing Reishi mushrooms (right); note the stumps of an old mushroom near the tree trunk. These mushrooms illustrate the tissue regenerating power reishi bestows, as well as the power with which tumors and metastases grow, or regrow if not cut out completely in surgery. Reishi is an important cancer healing plant. (Photos by Sandra Lory)

Another tumor-like growth is Tuckahoe. When I first snacked on a dried Tuckahoe piece, I could not understand why I was tasting pine; they are the result of an underground fungus, causing Conifer roots to make hard, starchy tubers. It has been shown to contain cancer-inhibiting properties (Reid 1995, p. 188f). Psychological research has shown that cancers take over the body when someone no longer fully inhabits one's life; cancer is the ticket out of an unbearable situation, breaking down the body abandoned by life force. This is akin to life forms that start to grow on hosts with feeble life force—mushrooms move in to break them down, take them to death. Mistletoe is a parasite that grows like a cancer on the host tree and will finally kill it. The extract can kill cancer cells. We can see that the parasite or symbiotic state is closely related to cancer, in which the tumor takes on a life of its own with a parasitic relationship to the host's body. Another example would be Beech Drops (Epifagus virginiana), also called Cancer Root. This parasitical growth on Beech roots has a folk use in cancerous ulcers (Harris 1985, p. 67). “Parasitical growths have a “sticking-to” property. This herb was much used in a variety of skin disorders, thus earning its common synonym, cancer root” (ibid., p. 44). Several of those tree funguses such as Chaga look black like a necrotic tumor—they are indeed invaluable in clamping down the blood supply to cancerous tumors and thus making them become necrotic. Giant Puffball has also been shown to stop cancer (ibid., p. 150).

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