STORY OF AGARICUS by Osmar Borzacchini

The Agaricus Brazil Mushroom was discovered by takatoshi Furumoto in Brazil.

Furumoto's research revealed that the healthy state of the people of Piedade was due to their frequently eating the ABM mushroom. In order to examine the mushroom species and establish its effect on cancer, samples were sent to the University of Buenos Aires and the University of the Province of Mie in Japan. Finally, Dr. Shobo Shibata, who was then working at the Department of Pharmacology as a professor, and Dr. Tetsuo Ikegawa of Japan's National Cancer Research Centre managed to detect the pharmacological action of ABM. That was about 30 years ago. Their research findings were published on the occasion of the General Assembly of the Japanese Pharmacology Association and the Japanese Cancer Research Society.