Most of the tongue can be eaten, has good medicinal value, usually used in the treatment of laryngitis. Tree tongue consumption method is more similar to Ganoderma lucidum, generally to the water decoction method, simply chop the tongue into the pot, and then decocted with the method of decoction of traditional Chinese medicine with water decoction uniform can be used.

Tree tongue can be eaten

Most of the tree tongue can be eaten, tree tongue in Chinese medicine inside the tree tongue Zhizhi, flat cover Ganoderma lucidum, Bianzhi, etc. called, although its efficacy is not as good as the Ganoderma lucidum, but also has a better medicinal value, is usually used in the relief of laryngitis.

The edible method of the tree tongue is more similar to Ganoderma lucidum, and is generally based on the water decoction method, which only requires the tree tongue to be chopped into jars, and then decocted with water in the same way as traditional Chinese medicine for uniform use. It can also be used as a tea, wine, stew, soup, or boiled and poured into a bath tub to soak the entire body.

Need to pay attention to the phoenix tree, mango tree, pomegranate tree, loquat tree, wannabe, croton tree and other trees on the tongue can not be eaten, because these trees on the growth of the tongue are with a certain degree of toxicity. And the tongue itself is a kind of fungal plant that is prone to mold and deterioration, if there is mold, it will also carry certain toxins, it is best not to eat.

A, what is the tongue

1, animal and plant form

Substrate perennial, lateral sessile, woody or nearly corky. The cap is flattened, semicircular, fan-shaped, flat hill-shaped to low horseshoe-shaped, (5-30) cm × (6-50) cm, 2-15 cm thick; the cap surface crust gray-white to gray-brown, often covered with a layer of brown spore powder, there are obvious concentric ring ribs and rings, often with wart-like protrusions of varying sizes, and there are often irregular fine fissures after drying; the edge of the cap is thin and sharp, sometimes obtuse, entire or undulate. The oral surface of the tube is initially white, gradually changing to yellowish white to gray-brown, immediately turning brown at the injury; the mouth of the tube is rounded, 4-6 per 1mm; the mycelium tube is multilayered, with a thin mycelium layer sandwiched between the layers of the mycelium tube, and the older mycelium tubes are congested with white powdery mycelium. Spores ovoid, one end has a truncated wall bilayer, smooth outer wall, colorless, inner wall has spiny protrusions, brown, (6.5-10) μm × (5-6.5) μm.

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2, basic information

Medicinal name: tree tongue (Northeast called Lao Niu Gan)

Origin: for Fungus plant medicine Polyporaceae tree tongue of the whole grass.

Effects: open the depression and diaphragm.

Taste and flavor: slightly bitter, flat. It enters the spleen and stomach meridians.

Use and dosage: internal: decoction, 10-30 grams.

Alias: red-colored old mother fungus (Chinese medicinal fungi), flat wood ganoderma lucidum, Bianzhi (Jiangsu), Bianmushroom, white spot rot fungus, soap horn fungus (Sichuan).

Animal and plant resources distribution: distributed in the northeast, northwest, east, south and southwest provinces and regions.

Latin name: Gan-oderma applanatum (Pers. Ex Wallr) Pat.

Examination: In Chinese Medicinal Fungi.

Chemical constituents of traditional Chinese medicine: the whole herb contains polysaccharides, dihydroergosterol (5, 6 a dihydroergosterol) and so on.

Second, tree tongue ganoderma lucidum characteristics and identification

Tree tongue ganoderma lucidum is also known as tree tongue flat ganoderma lucidum, the old mother fungus, maple tree fungus. The substrate is large or extra-large. Sessile or almost sessile. The cap is semicircular, flat hemispherical or flattened, the base is often decurrent, 5-35×10-50cm wide, 1-12cm thick, the surface is gray, brownish, with concentric ring ribs, and sometimes there are tumors, and the cortex is gelatinous and horny, with a thin edge. Flesh light chestnut color, sometimes close to the cortex after dark brown, stomata round, 4-5 per millimeter.

Tree-tongue Ganoderma pseudo-identification:

1, the entity of the laminated tree-tongue Ganoderma lucidum morphology: tambour fruit can be grown continuously for 2-3 years, each year, the new cap is born in the old cap on the lower side of the sessile, sometimes with a stalk. The cap is flat or concave, gray or light brown, with concentric rings, and the flesh is light chestnut, soft and light.

2, the entity form of the red edge of the layer of holes: cap sessile or flat and revolute, flat, flat spherical to horseshoe-shaped, woody. For gray to black, with broad ribbons, mycelium flesh nearly white to wood color, corky, with ring pattern.

3, tree tongue entity morphology: the cap sessile, semicircular, section flat hemispherical or flattened, brown, with concentric annular ribbing, mycelium flesh light chestnut color, mycelium tubes show to see the multi-layer, each layer up to 1.5 mm thick.

4, flesh-colored corky mushroom entity morphology: cap corky, sessile, semicircular, flat, sometimes nearly hoof-shaped, imbricate. The surface has inconspicuous radial wrinkles, with inconspicuous rings, with fine tomentum, for brownish gray to dark brownish gray.