The preliminary investigation reveals extracts of this mushroom can provide significant results in terms of reduction in breast cancer tumour
RAJKOT: For long they have tickled your taste buds while adding nutritional value to Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Thai cuisines. But now a mushroom species, touted to be one of the costliest in the world, has also turned out to be of medicinal value.
Scientists at Kutch-based Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology (GUIDE) have successfully cultivated – ‘cordyceps militaris’ – a mushroom species that traditionally found its use in Chinese and Tibetan herbal medicines. The scientists grew the mushrooms in 35 jars in a controlled environment in a laboratory within 90 days giving 350 grams yield. The mushroom is valued at Rs1.50 lakh a kg.
Smoke was billowing from the apartment and most of the household chattels gutted in the fire
RAJKOT: Two children including an infant and their mother were rescued by Rajkot fire brigade from a top floor of a four-storey apartment on Thursday evening. 80 per cent of the flat was gutted in fire, the woman locked herself with her two children in a bathroom from where the fire brigade rescued them.
The fire brigade on Thursday evening got a call that there was a fire in a small flat of Komal apartment in the Bedinaka Tower area and a woman named Dhara and her two children - a baby girl of eight months and a seven-year-old boy Harshil - were trapped.