Chicken of the Woods Laetiporus Sulphureus and Schizophyllum Commune Treasure of Medicinal Mushrooms

Abstract

The medicinal uses of the mushroom still need to be worked out for their biological activities. Mushrooms are small pharmaceutical factories, manufacturing various promising biologically active chemical compounds. These compounds exist in the mushroom fruit bodies, cultured mycelium, and culture broth. The presence of various phenolic compounds, polysaccharides, terpenoids, β-glucans, schizophyllan, ganoderic acid, and other compounds, is the reason for their potent biological activities, much more biological activities are discovered every day. Several compounds are responsible for the therapeutic activities of many medicinal mushrooms genera; the main groups of these compounds are polysaccharides, terpenes, phenolic compounds, and essential amino acids, as well as minerals such as such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, and zinc. Overall, studies both on the chemistry and pharmacology of Laetiporus sulphureus and Schizophyllum commune extracts and compounds are increasing in recent years and show therapeutic potential for various pathologies. The purpose of this review was to investigate the biological activities of extract prepared from fruiting bodies of Laetiporus sulphureus and Schizophyllum commune .