Healthy Cocoa – what a concept?!?!?<\/p>\n
EnerHealth Botanicals Cocoa MoJo is now carried in my office. It is a ‘great way to enjoy yummy Cocoa while supporting your immune system… especially during the winter’1<\/sup>. This is an organic non-dutched (no alkaloids) cocoa powder with organic coconut palm sugar and organic extracts immune-boosting medicinal mushrooms. The coconut palm sugar has a low glycemic index (of 35), making this a nice dessert treat even for diabetics and others who are watching their sugar intake. The medicinal mushrooms extracts in Cocoa Mojo are:<\/p>\n \u221a Cordyceps Sinensis – this is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) herb that I call the ‘Ginseng for the Lungs’; it is a ‘Lung Tonic’ and is used to treat many respiratory disorders. It is also effective in the prevention and treatment of a variety of cardiovascular disorders, and is also a strong immune stimulant, being antineoplastic (anti-cancer) as well. Additionally, research has shown it is renal-protective (for example, it can help kidney problems such as chronic renal failure).2<\/sup>,3<\/sup><\/p>\n \u221a Ganoderma Lucidum aka Reishi mushroom – this is another TCM herb, used to calm the mind, strengthen the Lungs and the body in general, and it also known to be antineoplastic, anti-viral and anti-bacterial (see this excerpt from a TCM professional reference<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u221a Coriollus Versicolor aka Turkey Tail mushroom – now widely known to have anti-cancer effects, more research has shown direct antioxidant effect as well.4<\/sup>,5<\/sup><\/p>\n \u221a Agaricus Blazei – this is a Brazilian mushroom, researched highly in Japan, that has demonstrated antineoplastic abilities in many research studies, along with immunomodulatory effects.6<\/sup>. It is also known by its Japanese name of himematsutake.<\/p>\n References<\/u>: More references for medicinal mushrooms: Healthy Cocoa – what a concept?!?!? EnerHealth Botanicals Cocoa MoJo is now carried in my office. It is a ‘great way to enjoy yummy Cocoa while supporting your immune system… especially during the winter’1. This is an organic non-dutched (no alkaloids) cocoa powder with organic coconut palm sugar and organic extracts immune-boosting medicinal mushrooms. The […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,50,26],"tags":[526,89,537,524,331,527,525,536,80,505,535,534],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodtherapy","category-organic","category-products","tag-agaricus","tag-anti-cancer","tag-anti-neoplastic","tag-cocoa","tag-cordyceps","tag-coriollus","tag-ganoderma","tag-himematsutake","tag-medicinal-mushrooms","tag-reishi","tag-reishi-mushroom","tag-turkey-tail-mushroom","category-27-id","category-50-id","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQuRZ-KQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1<\/sup>http:\/\/www.enerhealthbotanicals.com\/cocoa-mojo.html
\n2<\/sup>Clinical Manual of Oriental Medicine, 2nd edition, Lotus Institute of Integrative Medicine.
\n3<\/sup>Panaxea.com research summary.
\n4<\/sup>http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23627468
\n5<\/sup>http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/paul-stamets\/mushrooms-cancer_b_1560691.html
\n6<\/sup>http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17639159<\/p>\n
\n1) Hobbs, Christopher. Medicinal Mushrooms – An Exploration of Tradition, Healing, & Culture<\/em>. Santa Cruz, CA: Botanica Press, 1995.
\n2) MycoHerb Clinical Guide for Practitioners<\/em>. Golden Mirror Press, 2008.
\n3) Review of Medicinal Mushrooms Advances: Good News from Old Allies<\/em>, Solomon P. Wasser, HerbalGram. 2002; 56:28-33 American Botanical Council (article online<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"