Monkey head mushroom, also known as monkey head, flavorful and delicious, and bear's paw, shark's fin, sea cucumber and known as the "four famous dishes", and "the mountain treasure monkey head, sea flavor bird's nest," said.

Monkey head mushroom is both a delicious dish and a raw material for medicine. As an ingredient, it is a valuable dish, is the Ming and Qing dynasty royal tribute. As a medicinal material, in the current "Chinese People's **** and State Ministry of Health Drug Standards" clearly recorded: "Monkey mushroom tablets for the monkey head mushroom processed and made, with the effect of nourishing the stomach and the middle, for the treatment of gastric, duodenal ulcers and chronic gastritis."

The Chinese medicine believes that the monkey head mushroom is flat in nature, sweet in taste, with the effect of nourishing the stomach and tranquilizing the mind. The Chinese Materia Medica records that it: strengthens the spleen, nourishes the stomach, calms the mind, and fights cancer. Modern medicine has proved that monkey head mushroom has significant curative effect on indigestion, gastric and duodenal ulcer, chronic gastritis and other stomach diseases. Japan and South Korea and other countries consume a lot of monkey head mushroom, used to prevent and control gastric diseases.

Monkey head mushroom stomach, both in line with science, and inheritance of folklore, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, but also the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine.

Nutritional value and medicinal value of monkey head mushroom

Monkey head mushroom has high nutritional composition, containing 26.3 grams of protein per 100 grams of dried product, which is twice as much as that of shiitake mushroom. It contains 17 kinds of amino acids, of which 8 kinds are needed by human body. Every hundred grams of monkey head contains 4.2 grams of fat, which is a real high protein, low fat food. At the same time, the monkey head mushroom also has to enhance appetite, enhance the gastric mucosal barrier function, improve the conversion rate of lymphocytes, etc., on the peptic ulcer has a good therapeutic effect.

Inhibitory effect of monkey head mushroom on Helicobacter pylori

Helicobacter pylori

Helicobacter pylori infection is the main causative factor of chronic active gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma and gastric cancer. Infection with H. pylori leads to chronic gastritis and gastrointestinal ulcer disease. Numerous studies have shown that more than 90% of duodenal ulcers and about 80% of gastric ulcers are caused by H. pylori infection.

Modern research results have also shown that the mycelium, fermentation broth and fruiting bodies of the monkey mushroom have the ability to inhibit the growth of H. pylori in vitro.