Shiitake mushrooms have been recognized since ancient times as a treasure for longevity and can cure many diseases. The Compendium of Materia Medica recorded that the mushroom "is flat, dry, can benefit the gas not hunger, treating the wind to break the blood, phlegm and gas, beneficial flavor to help food, the urinary incontinence". According to "The Essentials of Medicine", shiitake mushroom is "sweet and cold, and can be used to treat pox". Modern medicine believes that shiitake contains vitamin C, which can lower cholesterol and blood pressure. Shiitake mushroom is rich in arginine and lysine, which has a good effect on increasing intelligence and brain health. Shiitake mushroom contains a kind of "B glucosidase", which can improve the body's ability to inhibit cancer tumors, strengthen the anti-cancer effect, and no adverse reactions, and is therefore known as "new anti-cancer soldiers". Asparagine and aspartic acid in shiitake mushroom have the function of lowering blood fat and maintaining blood vessels, plus it is rich in dietary fiber, which can reduce blood cholesterol and prevent hardening of blood vessels, and is effective in preventing and treating cerebral hemorrhage and heart disease, obesity, diabetes and other age-related diseases. Interferon contained in shiitake mushrooms can interfere with the protein synthesis of viruses, so that viruses can not reproduce, thus enabling people to produce immunity. Shiitake mushrooms have a general lack of vegetables in the mazitol, which can be converted into vitamin D, promote the absorption of calcium in the body, and can enhance the body's ability to resist disease, and can help children's bones and teeth growth.
Shiitake mushrooms are a kind of edible large fungi, is a four-season edible delicacies, enjoy the "meat in the veggies" said, first of all, the protein content of edible mushrooms is very high, accounting for 17.5% of the dry weight of the crude protein, 8% fat. In particular, the general rice, noodles, vegetables in the lack of essential 8 amino acids, edible mushrooms contain proteins have. In addition, it also contains riboflavin, ascorbic acid, juice acid, pantothenic acid, nucleotides and other vitamins and calcium, iron, copper and other hematopoietic substances, which is recognized as one of the "health foods" by both Chinese and foreign health care circles. Shiitake mushroom meat pure, simple and elegant, crisp and smooth, mushroom aroma, long-term consumption can enhance human immunity, so that the body produces an inhibition of viral immunity substances, reduce colds; can also prevent and treat liver disease and gastrointestinal ulcers, and can reduce blood pressure, remove blood toxins, lipid inhibition of cancer effects. It has the effect of eliminating food, removing fat and lowering blood pressure. The fiber contained in it can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, prevent constipation and reduce intestinal absorption of cholesterol. Shiitake mushrooms also contain shiitake purine and other nucleic acid substances, which can promote the decomposition of cholesterol. Eating mushrooms can reduce total cholesterol and triglycerides.
Successive generations of medical scientists have written about the medicinal properties and functions of mushrooms. For example, "Compendium of Materia Medica" believes that the mushroom "benefit gas, not hungry, treating the wind to break the blood"; "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine" believes that the mushroom "for the compensation of vitamin D agent to prevent rickets, and cure anemia".
The shiitake polysaccharide in shiitake mushroom, the fire mushroom mycotoxin in winter mushroom, and the polysaccharide in other mushrooms also have anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects. For this reason, in recent years, countries around the world attach great importance to the consumption of mushrooms, and even recommended as food for modern cosmonauts.