Reishi Mushroom Or Lingzhi Mushroom Is Medicinal Mushroom To Help Health Problem

Lingzhi mushroom or Reishi musroom is generally known as the queen of mushroom due to its body- and-mind balancing properties.It is called Ganoderma lucidum.The generic name Ganoderma derives from Greek that means brightness skin.Lucidum is latin for shinning.Lingzhi is a polypore mushroom that is soft (when fresh), corky, and flat, with a conspicuous red-varnished, kidney-shaped cap, and depending on specimen age, white to dull brown pores underneath.It lacks gills on underside and releases its spores through fine pores, leading to its morphological classification as a polypore.The three main factors that most greatly influence fruitbody development morphology are light, temperature, and humidity.Depending on environmental or cultivation conditions the reishi can lose its umbrella shape and resemble antlers instead.In nature lingzhi grows at the base and stumps of deciduous trees, especially maple.Some herbalists use red reishi mushroom for curing many issues of disease. Reishi mushroom needs to be extracted in hot water and alcohol in order to extract the fat soluble compounds and make the bioactive components bioavailable.Lingzhi or Reishi mushroom is medicinal mushroom with dosage 500 Mg of powdered extract per day.

Reishi mushroom or Ganoderma lucidum produces a group of triterpenes, called Ganoderic acids which have a molecular structure similar to Steroidhormones.It also contains other compounds often found in fungal materials including polysaccharides (Beta-Glucan), coumarin, mannitol, and alkaloids.Sterol isolated from the mushroom include ganoderol, ganoderenic acid, ganoderiol, ganodermanontriol, lucidadiol, and ganodermadiol.


The characteristics of Reishi mushroom :

• Brown spore print.
• Pores on hymenium.
• Offset or indistinct cap.
•  Bare stipe or lacks a stipe.
• Hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable.
• Parasitic or saprotrophic.
• Edible.

The benefits of Lingzhi mushroom or Reishi Musroom for health

• Ensures better sleep by naturally regulating the hormonal system and lowering cortisol level.
• Makes calm body and mind.
• Decreases cardiovascular risk.
• Polysaccharides, proteoglycans, protein, and triterpenoids are in reishi that may have hypoglycemic effects.In vitro evidence suggests that protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B is a promising therapeutic target in diabetes.
• Kills cancer growth.
• Fights symptoms of old age.
• Decreases high blood pressure.
• Cures liver problem
• Cures arthritis.
• Cures asthma
• Treats sniff neck, snick shoulders.
• Treats conjunctivitis ( inflammation of the fine membrane lining the eye and eyelids).
• Treats bronchitis.
• Treats rheumatism.
• Improves competence of the immune system without any significant side-effects.
• Attenuates metabolic risk factors contributing to obesity.
• Beta-glucans and polysaccharides in reishi mushroom to stimulate innate immune function and signal and activate dendritic cells.