Not so long ago, a unique medicinal plant, Ganoderma, appeared on the domestic market. There are negative reviews about the preparations made on its basis, but there are few of them. Basically, consumers are delighted with the effect produced by the ganoderma. What she just does not treat! Some patients say that with its help they even got rid of congenital defects of the body. What is this ganoderma really? How and to whom does she help?
Correct name
Ganoderma, or fungus of immortality. So this name is a miracle Koreans and Chinese. The first mention of it is associated with the almost mythical Shen Nun, born with the head of a bull. For 3200 BC, he composed “Beng-Cao” - his famous herbalist, in which he called the ganoderma a means donated by the gods. After one and a half millennia, the famous Chinese scientist wrote about the beneficial properties of the ganoderma and Li Shicheng. There is a legend about the emperor Shi Huang, who ruled China in the III century BC. He ordered 250 young men and as many girls to find for him a plant that grants immortality. Those brought him a ganoderma. The Japanese called this mushroom "Reisi," or "mannentake," which in Japanese means "mushroom of ten millennia and spiritual strength." In Russia, he is better known as a tinder fungus. The scientific world calls him Ganoderma lucidum.
Biological description
There are many types of mushrooms called ganoderma. Negative reviews about it may be due to the fact that the plants that were needed were not used. These mushrooms belong to the Ganoderma family, which means "growing on stumps and trees." All of them are divided into two subfamilies - with shiny and ordinary hats. Ganoderma lucidum belongs to the first. It is almost impossible to confuse it with other tinder agents, since it is the only one that grows not on the tree trunk itself , but on a stem, sometimes reaching 25 cm in length and 3 cm in diameter. The head of the ganoderma is oval or ovoid with an approximate size of 8 x 25 x 3 cm, but there are also smaller or larger specimens. From above it, like tree trunks, is streaked with multiple annual growth rings. Outwardly, the hat is brown (it can be violet-brown, even black), with a light edging, smooth, shiny, for which many call the mushroom varnished. Its flesh is almost as hard as wood. There is no taste or smell in it. The bottom of the hat is light, tubular. This is a mushroom hymenophore. Its spores are small, like a powder, brown.
Habitat
Many marketing companies claim that only in China and Japan grows a ganoderma. Negative reviews of some consumers are caused by mistrust of such "experts" and products in general, because you can meet the miracle mushroom not only in advanced countries in terms of philosophy and alternative medicine, but in almost all continents except Antarctica. He is in Russia.
Ganoderma grows mainly on dead deciduous trees in the lower part of the trunk. On conifers, he also occasionally comes across. If the mushroom begins to grow on a living healthy tree, it dies in speed, since the tinder fungus is a saprophyte, that is, a wood destroyer. It is very rare to see a ganoderma directly on the ground. This happens when a mushroom begins to germinate on the roots of a tree. Collect it from early July until frost. The therapeutic properties of the fungus, as well as its appearance, are very dependent on which substrate it grows on. Now the ganoderma began to be cultivated, like oyster mushrooms.
Biochemical composition
The ganoderma plant, which, unfortunately, has negative reviews, is not a panacea for all ailments, but a unique chance to improve your health. The composition of the fungus is well understood. Carbohydrates, proteins, alkaloids, vitamins, amino acids, triterpenes (steroids), peptides, glycosides, essential oils, trace elements (potassium, magnesium, molybdenum, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, germanium, zinc) were found in his body and mycelium other). Each of them is immensely important for the work of the human body. But the most valuable groups of polysaccharides present in the ganoderma are those that provide us with energy, strengthen our immunity, perform many other important functions, and triterpenes that affect the work of almost all systems of the human body.
Application area
The chemical composition determines a wide range of diseases and negative conditions, in the treatment of which the ganoderma (mushroom) helps. Reviews of people who used it indicate a significant effect in many diseases. In folk and alternative medicine, a ganoderma is recommended for:
- heart diseases (ischemia, myocardial infarction and others);
- hypertension;
- problems with the digestive tract;
- asthma;
- neurasthenia;
- epilepsy;
- cirrhosis;
- oncology;
- diabetes mellitus;
- allergies;
- skin diseases (eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis);
- colds;
- sore throat;
- bronchitis;
- reduced immunity;
- overweight;
- pancreatitis;
- insomnia;
- increased fatigue and others.
All diseases are difficult to list. In addition, the ganoderma restores the cells of the body and restores their youth.
Preparations
Now various preparations are produced from the fungus ganoderma. It can be capsules, coffee, tea, chocolate, toothpastes, creams, shampoos. In some, only the mycelium of the fungus and its body are used, while in others auxiliary elements such as ginseng, sea buckthorn, and vitamins are added.
All of them have a different therapeutic effect in intensity. In Russia, on the packaging you can see the names "Reishi", "Linzhi", "Ganoderma". This is all one and the same mushroom. There are also preparations of a ganoderma with cordyceps. This is another type of mushroom (not tinder fungi) that parasitize on insects. Despite the extraordinary popularity and high cost, scientific studies have not confirmed the value of this product as a medicine. In China, cordyceps is used more as an aphrodisiac, added to dishes, but some patients who took it as a medicine noticed an improvement in well-being.
Features of exposure to the body
Many expect a quick effect, starting to take the coveted drug with the names "Reishi", "Ganoderma Lusidum." Customer reviews depend on the correct use of the product, because this mushroom works like a small life-giving laboratory. Once in the body, it first as if scans it, determining where and what is wrong. This process takes up to 30 days. Some patients may develop a skin rash, and digestive problems begin.
After scanning, the fungus begins to remove toxins and cleanse the cells. Depending on the contamination, the process can take from 1 week to 3 months. Again, unpleasant symptoms are possible (rash, cough, irregular or loose stools, increased sweating). The third stage is recovery. Sometimes it lasts a year. In the next 2 years, the fungus will continue to treat all diseased systems of the body and will “work” to consolidate the achieved result.
In the future, patients taking the drug without interruptions note the anti-aging effect produced by the agent and the restoration of many lost functions. So you do not need to hope for an instant recovery with treatment with ganoderma.
Teas and coffee
The most controversial reviews are found among consumers who drank coffee with a ganoderma. Some note the good taste of the product, and after its use - the addition of strength, improved sleep, reduced fatigue, increased performance. Another part of consumers in their comments, on the contrary, point to the low taste of the product at a fairly high price, as well as the development of adverse reactions in the form of rashes, nausea, pain in the stomach and the absence of even a minimal therapeutic effect. Coffee is sold in packs of 20 bags. It is available with and without sugar.
Tea with Ganoderma is recommended to cleanse the body and reduce weight. There are a lot of good reviews. Consumers like the taste of the product and the result of its use. True, the weight decreases very gradually and slightly, but at the same time, sleep improves, fatigue is removed, cheerfulness and good mood appear.
Ganoderma extract
Extracts are extraction in a high concentration of useful substances from medicinal raw materials. They can be liquid and powdery, on water, alcohol, ether and other extractants. Ganoderma extracts are most often prepared on water. It is a thick, liquid-like substance (in bottles) or powdery (in capsules). There are also products with various additives - with an extract from ginseng roots, with spores of the ganoderma itself and others. All these drugs can be used for prophylactic or therapeutic purposes. The difference is in doses at one time. So, for the prevention of diseases, it is recommended to drink one capsule (bottle) per day, and for treatment, 1-2 capsules daily. Duration of admission is from one month, and then according to indications.
Ganoderma: reviews, instructions, composition
As mentioned above, there are many companies that produce products with ganoderma. In some preparations, there is only powder from the body of the fungus and its spores, in others - variations of several medicinal additives and the fungus of the ganoderma in various proportions. Most often, the composition is indicated on the packaging of the goods. In advance, it can be assumed that excipients such as cocoa powder, tea leaf, coffee bean powder, sometimes sugar, are necessarily present in coffee, tea, and cocoa, and the ganoderma in them is from 5% or more, depending on the manufacturer. That is why reviews of such products are not always favorable and basically come down to the fact that the therapeutic effect is not pronounced or it takes a long time to wait for its manifestation.
Ganoderma in briquettes and capsules
With or without additives, all preparations with a ganoderma belong to the category of dietary supplements, and not medicines. This must be clearly understood before starting the course of their use. The pure product is produced in briquettes of 2 grams (the body of the fungus) and in capsules (the crushed body of the fungus and its spores).
Briquettes are used as follows:
2 pieces are poured with a glass of hot water (about 100 degrees), insisted for 15-20 minutes, filtered, drunk with food.
Capsules "Lingzhi Ganoderma Mushroom" are also used with food without opening. In general, any drug with a ganoderma should be drunk with food.
Despite the widest scope of this Chinese miracle product and its significant therapeutic effect, which is noted in most cases, there are also contraindications to the “immortality mushroom”. It can not be taken orally by pregnant and lactating women (creams and shampoos can be used), infants, people with individual intolerance to this drug.