Ganoderma lucidum, along with ginseng and cordyceps, is known as the "nine Chinese herbs", and has been a valuable Chinese medicine since ancient times, because it is non-toxic and a good ingredient for maintenance.
So this flavor has thousands of years of Chinese edible tradition of precious herbs, what are the specific effects? First, we have to go through its active ingredients to explain one by one.
Through modern medical research, we found that Ganoderma lucidum contains polysaccharides, nucleosides, furans, sterols, alkaloids, triterpenoids, oils, a variety of amino acids and proteins, enzymes, organic germanium, and a variety of trace elements.
1. Regulate immunity
Immunity is the body's own defense mechanism, which is the body's ability to identify and destroy any foreign invasions, deal with senescence, damage, death, degeneration of their own cells, as well as to identify and deal with the body's mutant cells and viral infected cells. In our daily life, we can change the bad habits, maintain a happy mood, combine work and rest, increase physical exercise and other measures to improve immunity.
In addition, we can also consume some effective ingredients to enhance the body's resistance or choose the appropriate oral nutritional supplements to improve their immunity. This has to mention our famous Ganoderma lucidum, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" listed Ganoderma lucidum as "on the medicine", noble, and no side effects, long-term use can improve the body, enhance the body's resistance, life extension.
Modern medicine analyzes that Ganoderma lucidum contains polysaccharides and triterpenoids, all of which have a very good function in regulating immunity, of which about two hundred kinds of triterpenoids have been found in Ganoderma lucidum. Other plants also contain triterpenoids, but Ganoderma lucidum contains special triterpenoids (or ganoderic acid) that are not found in other plants.
2. Antioxidant to prevent aging
Some experimental studies have proved that half a year's consumption of ganoderma lucidum can make the total antioxidant capacity (TEAC), as well as antioxidant enzyme content and activity rise significantly, and make the cell membranes and DNA suffer from oxidative damage reduced significantly. The antioxidant enzymes in red blood cells are also an important indicator of the body's antioxidant capacity. Red blood cells, which are responsible for transporting oxygen molecules, are themselves the most vulnerable to oxidative damage, and their defense mechanism is even more important.
Experimental results show that Ganoderma lucidum can significantly increase the content of many antioxidant enzymes in red blood cells. Since oxidation is one of the sources of aging, the results of this study also have anti-aging implications. So for healthy people, consume Reishi to upgrade your health.
3. Auxiliary treatment of tumor diseases
Medical author Lin Zhi-Bin published a book titled "Ganoderma lucidum supports the right and dispels the evil to assist in the treatment of tumors", which analyzes from the perspective of Ganoderma lucidum's chemical composition, pharmacological effects, and other points of view, and confirms that Ganoderma lucidum is indeed auxiliary treatment for a number of tumor diseases, respectively, by means of clinical experiments and folk experience. The book analyzes the chemical composition of Ganoderma lucidum from the perspective of its pharmacological effects.
Ganoderma lucidum and its polysaccharide peptides and triterpenoids have anti-tumor effects on many kinds of transplanted tumors in animals and can enhance the anti-tumor effects of chemotherapeutic drugs such as cisplatin, fluorouracil, and cyclophosphorothiamine. Ganoderma lucidum and the polysaccharide peptides it contains can enhance the tumor cell killing function of macrophages, natural killer cells, dendritic cells, and toxigenic T cells, promote the generation of anti-tumor cytokines, such as TNF-alpha (tumor necrosis factor) and IFN-γ (interferon), and enhance the activity of these cytokines, improve the body's anti-tumor immunity, and thus exert anti-tumor effects.
4. Lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, preventing high blood pressure
Lowering blood pressure ganoderma lucidum is rich in inorganic germanium, germanium can make the human body's blood circulation, enhance the function of receiving oxygen, enhance the metabolism in the body, there is a blood circulation, improve the function of the body.
Lowering blood lipid ganoderma lucidum can reduce high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and at the same time, it can also reduce the whole blood viscosity and plasma viscosity, improve blood rheology impediment. In addition, if applied with the customary lipid-lowering drugs, there is a synergistic effect, which can enhance the efficacy of each other.
Blood sugar reduction Ganoderma lucidum has the function of promoting insulin generation in pancreatic islets, decelerating pancreatic islet blood circulation, improving the body's cardio-mechanical function, increasing insulin exudation, thus correcting the body's metabolic disorders, restoring its original metabolic equilibrium shape, and improving immunity. Ganoderma lucidum contains 17 kinds of amino acids and a variety of trace elements and other essential nutrients for human health, these materials are not poor in life activities, can nourish yin and tonify the kidney, with Ganoderma lucidum lowering blood sugar from the improvement of the symptoms of the hands, the ultimate means is to avoid or delay diabetes triggered by cardio-cerebral and cerebral vascular complications.
5. Detoxification and liver protection
Ganoderma lucidum has a protective effect on liver damage caused by a variety of physical, chemical and biological factors. Whether before or after liver damage occurs, taking Ganoderma can protect the liver and reduce liver damage. Ganoderma lucidum can promote the metabolism of drugs and poisons by the liver, and has a definite curative effect on toxic hepatitis. Especially for chronic hepatitis, Ganoderma lucidum can significantly eliminate symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, nausea, discomfort in the liver area, and can effectively improve liver function, so that the indicators tend to normalize.
Since the record of "Dragon's Materia Medica", the relationship between Ganoderma lucidum and liver has been in China for two thousand years, Ganoderma lucidum is the use of its active ingredients to achieve the "regulation of immunity" and "antioxidant", "clear free radicals" to protect the liver function. Recent medical research has shown that Lingzhi is irreplaceable in its ability to protect and detoxify the human liver.
6. Anti-allergic
Ganoderma lucidum can play a certain anti-allergic effect, Ganoderma lucidum can block the release of allergic reaction mediators through the broken wall, so it can play an anti-allergic effect for allergy sufferers can take Ganoderma lucidum.
7. Improve sleep
Ganoderma lucidum contains adenine compounds, which have significant inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, showing significant sedative effect. There are clinical trials applying Ganoderma lucidum treatment of neurasthenia insomnia patients 102 cases, served 2-3 courses, the results of the patient insomnia, palpitations and forgetfulness, fatigue, the original lumbar and knee pain, irritability and other symptoms significantly reduce the effective rate of 96% or more, the experiments show that Ganoderma lucidum on the calming and tranquilizing to improve the role of sleep does have a certain effect.
8. Cough, asthma and lungs
Ganoderma lucidum is rich in ganoderic acid (triterpenoids), ganoderma lucidum alkaloids, which can inhibit the release of histamine, alleviate the spasm of the bronchial smooth muscle, and the epithelium of the bronchial cilium repair function to achieve the effect of suppressing cough expectorant, especially for chronic bronchitis patients, bronchitis and asthma. The total effective rate can reach 60-90% after 1 month.
9. Beauty
Ganoderma lucidum is mainly used to slow down the aging of the body, regulate the endocrine and metabolic system, and eliminate the role of free radicals to achieve the effect of beauty. Ganoderma lucidum it has the effect of skin care, can delay aging, can maintain and regulate the skin moisture, restore skin elasticity, make the skin moist, delicate, and can inhibit the formation of melanin in the skin and precipitation, remove pigmentation, make the hair to increase the luster and other effects.
Therefore, all kinds of beauty products made of Ganoderma lucidum have become the newest in skin care and beauty. Along with this, skin care, hair care and bathing preparations of Ganoderma lucidum have also emerged. If used in combination with internal ganoderma lucidum, it can moisturize and protect the whole body, making the whole body smooth and delicate, and effectively preventing bacteria from attacking the skin.
10. Precautions
Said nine effects of Ganoderma lucidum, indicating that Ganoderma lucidum is a kind of comprehensive effect of the tonic Chinese medicine, but not all people at any time can be taken casually, Ganoderma lucidum taking have to pay attention to the contraindications.
1, there are very few people who are allergic to ganoderma lucidum, and these people should not eat ganoderma lucidum.
2, Ganoderma lucidum is not recommended in the following cases: a week before or after the patient's surgery, or patients who are hemorrhaging.
3, Ganoderma lucidum effect time is late, generally in the service after 3-5 days to take effect, a small number of the next day to take effect, some people have to be more than 10 days after the effect of individual patients to 30-60 days to take effect.