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.
Rajkot: Influx of Covid-19 patients from Morbi, Rajkot, Junagadh and Amreli districts have sent Saurashtra’s biggest Covid facility in Jamnagar, GG hospital’s system for a toss while the district administration is leaving no stones unturned to make the entire hospital, barring a few critical departments, into a Covid-only hospital, literally. Jamnagar is second to Rajkot in terms of highest number of Covid cases.
While efforts are on to create additional 800 additional beds, the hospital is already treating total 1,302 patients admitted in the 1,200 beds facility that had been set up last year.
Additional beds have been arranged from the Indian navy and some more have been taken on rent from outside to accommodate all the in-hospital patients.