Coriolus Versicolor

[Mystic Wolf]

Coriolus Versicolor: a medicinal mushroom with promising immunotherapeutic values.
School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT.

  Coriolus Versicolor (CV) is a medicinal mushroom widely prescribed for the prophylaxis and treatment of cancer and infection in China. In recent years, it has been extensively demonstrated both preclinically and clinically that aqueous extracts obtained from CV display a wide array of biological activities, including stimulatory effects on different immune cells and inhibition of cancer growth. The growing popularity of aqueous CV extracts as an adjunct medical modality to conventional cancer therapies has generated substantial commercial interest in developing these extracts into consistent and efficacious oral proprietary products.