Ganoderma lucidum(REISHI or LINGZHI) is a powerful herb which has many
beneficial effects in our body.The therapeutic effects of reishi are due to the powerful ingredients (more
than 250).Reishi is being used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a
powerful herb(drug) for more than 5000 years. Because of its powerful
healing effects it has been called as King of Herbs and Herb of
immortality.
Reishi is a basidiomycete,lamellaless fungus belonging to the
family of polyporaceae.In nature, it grows in densely wooded forests of high
humidity and dim lighting.It is rarely found and flourishes mainly on
the dried trunks of plum,guercus serrata or pasonia trees.Out of 10,000 such
trees perhaps 2 or 3 will have Reishi growth.Reishi has been recorded to
have the most powerful healing effects in Chinese pharmacopia written in
first century B.C. Modern research has made possible to cultivate reishi since
1972 and it is made available to everyone now.A number of developed countries are now conducting
sophisticated research in reishi to study its therapeutic effects.
The ingredients in Reishi are classified under 5 major groups:
1) POLYSACHARIDES
2) ORGANIC
GERMANIUM
3) ADENOSINE
4)
TRITERPENES
5) GANODERIC
ESSENCE
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