Ganoderma

It's a wonderful herb

Reishi mushroom or "Ling Zhi" mushroom is also known as Ganoderma lucidum. For centuries, this mushroom is reputed as "King of Herbs" by herbal practitioners in China and Japan for its excellent effect in aiding, assisting or helping in the maintenance or improvement of general well-being.

Red lingzhi has been identified with the seal wax fungus (Ganoderma lucidum), which improves endurance, enhances the body's self-healing ability, helps maintain our health and lead a long life.

Successful cultivation

In 1970, Dr. Yukio Naoi, a technician at the Institute for Food Science Research at Kyoto University, successfully applied the "spore-separation cultivation method" to grow Ganoderma. The method was introduced in 1975 in Asia. Because of the extremely favorable climate and soil, this procedure is now widespread.

For thousands of years, Lingzhi has been the subject of special respect in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Already included in the very first Chinese Pharmacopoeia, Shennong's herbal medicine, it is one of the highest quality "drugs" that, even when consumed over a long period of time, do not cause poisoning and have no harmful side effects. The same work describes 6 color variants that have now turned out to be distinct mushroom species.

Wild-growing Ganoderma is very rare and difficult to harvest. Even if one accidentally finds a specimen, the active ingredient content of the fungus is often far from optimal, which makes it difficult to calculate its effect. Because wild specimens are likely to be collected, it is almost impossible to standardize the quality of their products.

The Magic Effects of Ganoderma:

For more than a thousand years, Ganoderma has been enveloped in the fog of mysteries. People only knew that "Ganoderma preserves youth and provides a long life when consumed regularly," but for centuries, except for Chinese alchemists, no one has been engaged in scientific research to determine why it is so effective.

Since the late 1960s, numerous studies have been conducted all over the world, which have finally unraveled the secret of its exceptional effectiveness through clinical trials of collaborating hospitals, universities, and pharmaceutical companies.

Important ingredients of ganoderma:

Organic Germanium (Ge):
Increases blood oxygen uptake up to 1.5 times; can improve digestion, prevent tissue death. According to Dr. Kazuhiko Asai's research, Ganoderma contains germanium in 800-2000 parts per million. This is four to six times the amount found in ginseng (Panax ginseng).

Polysaccharides:
These giant molecules of simple sugars effectively support the optimal function of the immune system. For several fungal polysaccharides, studies have shown antitumor activity. In Japan, drugs containing fungal polysaccharides have been authorized since the late 1970s and have since been used as adjuvant therapy in clinical cancer therapy.

Bitter taste:
The bitter taste of the seal wax is primarily the responsibility of the various triterpenes. The higher the triterpene content of a fungal species, the bitter the taste. Ganoderma triterpene compounds have been shown to be antiviral.