Birch Mushroom and Birch Yellow are the same thing, a kind of medical fungus. Birch Mushroom scientific name: Birch Brown Pore Fungus, alias: Birch Mushroom, Birch Yellow, Birch Mushroom, Siberian Ganoderma and so on. Birch mushroom is a medical fungus. Birch mushroom substrate into a tumor-like, black and gray appearance, with irregular grooves, sessile. Diameter 25-40 centimeters, crusty, dark brown, mycelium columnar, with slight, indistinct ring. Fresh bright, pale yellowish brown.

Medicinal effects of birch mushrooms:

1, birch mushrooms have anti-cancer effect. On a variety of tumor cells (such as breast cancer, lip cancer, stomach cancer, subauricular gland cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer, rectal cancer, Hawkins lymphoma) has obvious inhibitory effect. It prevents metastasis and recurrence of cancer cells, enhances immunity and promotes health. And it is used to cooperate with radiotherapy and chemotherapy for patients with malignant tumors to enhance patients' tolerance and reduce toxic side effects.

2, birch mushroom treatment of diabetes. Birch mushrooms can reduce blood sugar in the human body.

3, birch mushroom anti-aging. Remove free radicals in the body, protect cells, extend the number of generations of cell division, enhance cell life, promote metabolism, and therefore can effectively delay aging, long-term use can prolong life.

4, birch antler effectively inhibit infectious viruses. Can prevent colds.

5, birch mushrooms have the prevention and treatment of hypertension and improve and prevent allergic cortex.

6, birch mushrooms on hepatitis, gastritis, duodenal ulcer, nephritis has obvious therapeutic effect. And on vomiting, diarrhea, gastrointestinal dysfunction has a therapeutic effect.

Birch mushrooms, also known as birch brown porcupine fungus, is a kind of medicinal fungi growing on the birch tree. It mainly grows in the northern hemisphere in the area of 40°~50° north latitude, i.e., Siberia, Russia, the Far East, Northern Europe, Hokkaido, Japan, North Korea, Heilongjiang, Jilin Changbai Mountain and other places in the northern part of China.

The fungus is extremely active and will keep sucking the nutrients from birch trees, and after about 10~15 years, it will absorb the essence of birch trees and make birch trees die.

Morphological features: birch antler is a sterile substrate subglobular or indeterminate mass.

Diameter 7~36cm, the surface is hard, yellowish brown to black, with obvious uneven cracked small pieces. Mycelium flesh yellowish brown, mycelium is a dichotomous mycelium system. Reproductive mycelium is yellowish, septate, without locking union, 4~6μm in diameter. skeleton mycelium is setaceous mycelium, yellowish brown, 5~6μm in diameter, hard to find substrate. The mycelial tissue consists of brown setiform hyphae and yellowish reproductive hyphae, thick-walled, with slight, indistinct bad lines, bright pale yellowish brown, with dark brown setae.

Distribution range:

Birch mushrooms are very selective for hosts, mainly born under the bark of birch, silver birch, elm and alder or under the bark of living standing trees or on the dead trunks of trees after felling. Mainly distributed in the northern hemisphere, 45 ° ~ 50 ° north latitude areas. Such as North America (north), Finland, Poland, Russia, China, Heilongjiang, Jilin Province, Japan (Hokkaido) and so on.

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