Editing Mushroom (section)

===Folk medicine===
{{main|Medicinal mushrooms}}
[[File:2014-02-26 Ganoderma lingzhi Sheng H. Wu, Y. Cao & Y.C. Dai 574882.jpg|thumb|''[[Ganoderma lingzhi]]'']]

Some mushrooms are used in [[folk medicine]].<ref name="pdq">{{cite web |title=Medicinal mushrooms |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK424937/ |publisher=PDQ Cancer Information |access-date=2 July 2021 |date=17 June 2021 |pmid=28267306 |last1=Pdq Integrative |first1=Alternative |archive-date=26 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226152825/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK424937/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In a few countries, [[extract]]s, such as [[polysaccharide-K]], [[schizophyllan]], [[polysaccharide peptide]], or [[lentinan]], are government-registered [[adjuvant cancer therapies]],<ref name="cancer.org" /><ref name="Borchers" /><ref name=pdq/> but clinical evidence for efficacy and safety of these extracts in humans has not been confirmed.<ref name=pdq/><ref name="CancerResUK">{{cite web|url=http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/mushrooms-in-cancer-treatment?_ga=2.202576657.1691015314.1510713893-658116733.1510713893|title=Mushrooms in cancer treatment|publisher=Cancer Research UK|date=30 January 2015|access-date=15 November 2017|archive-date=15 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115083457/http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/mushrooms-in-cancer-treatment?_ga=2.202576657.1691015314.1510713893-658116733.1510713893|url-status=live}}</ref> Although some mushroom species or their extracts may be consumed for therapeutic effects, some regulatory agencies, such as the US [[Food and Drug Administration]], regard such use as a [[dietary supplement]], which does not have government approval or common clinical use as a [[prescription drug]].<ref name=pdq/>