Lingzhi, full name is Ganoderma lucidum, according to China's first drug monograph "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" records: Ganoderma lucidum has purple, red, green, yellow, white, black six kinds, but modern literature and the specimens we see, most of them are the whole plant of the plant of the family Polyporaceae, Purple Chi or Red Chi. It is sweet and flat in nature. Purple ganoderma mainly contains ergosterol, organic acids, glucosamine, polysaccharides, resins, mannitol and polysaccharides such as ergosterol, resins, fatty acids, mannitol and polysaccharides, but also alkaloids, lactones, coumarin, water-soluble proteins and a variety of enzymes.

Animal pharmacology has shown experiments: Ganoderma lucidum has inhibitory effect on the nervous system, the circulatory system has the effect of lowering blood pressure and strengthen the contractility of the heart, the respiratory system has expectorant effect, in addition, there are liver protection, improve immune function, antibacterial and other effects.

The main treatment of deficiency, cough, asthma, insomnia, indigestion, malignant tumors.