Editing Mycology (section)

==Mycology and drug discovery==
{{main|Medicinal fungi}}
For centuries, certain mushrooms have been documented as a [[Traditional medicine|folk medicine]] in [[China]], [[Japan]], and [[Russia]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sullivan |first=Richard |url=https://www.academia.edu/305933 |title=Medicinal Mushrooms: Their therapeutic properties and current medical usage with special emphasis on cancer treatments |pages=5 |access-date=2024-06-12 |archive-date=2023-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729195103/https://www.academia.edu/305933/Medicinal_Mushrooms_Their_therapeutic_properties_and_current_medical_usage_with_special_emphasis_on_cancer_treatments |url-status=live }}</ref> Although the use of mushrooms in folk medicine is centered largely on the Asian continent, people in other parts of the world like the [[Middle East]], [[Poland]], and [[Belarus]] have been documented using mushrooms for medicinal purposes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shashkina |first1=M. Ya. |last2=Shashkin |first2=P. N. |last3=Sergeev |first3=A. V. |title=Chemical and medicobiological properties of chaga (review) |journal=Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal |date=October 2006 |volume=40 |issue=10 |pages=560–568 |doi=10.1007/s11094-006-0194-4 }}</ref>

Mushrooms produce large amounts of [[vitamin D]] when exposed to [[Ultraviolet|ultraviolet (UV) light]].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cardwell G, Bornman JF, James AP, Black LJ | title = A Review of Mushrooms as a Potential Source of Dietary Vitamin D | journal = Nutrients | volume = 10 | issue = 10 | page = 1498 | date = October 2018 | pmid = 30322118 | pmc = 6213178 | doi = 10.3390/nu10101498 | doi-access = free }}</ref> [[Penicillin]], [[ciclosporin]], [[griseofulvin]], [[cephalosporin]] and [[psilocybin]] are examples of drugs that have been isolated from [[Mold (fungus)|mold]]s or other fungi.<ref>Hyde, K.D., Baldrian, P., Chen, Y. et al (2024). "Current trends, limitations and future research in the fungi?." Fungal Diversity. 125: 1–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-023-00532-5</ref>