The Mycelial Healer

A groundbreaking and accessible exploration of ancestral and Indigenous medicinal uses of mushrooms and their cultivation. Fungi are the Alpha and Omega of this planet. Through their connections to the rock, soil, air, water, plants, animals, and humans, fungi hold our ecosystems together. They carry medicinal compounds that can be isolated and studied by scientists, and they carry something less available to scientific study—something ineffable known by many Indigenous peoples. Fungi carry a vi