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1. Ganoderma



Latin Name: Ganoderma
Common Name: Ganoderma, lucid ganoderma, reishi mushroom
Scientific Name: Ganoderma lucidum (Leyss. Ex Fr.) Karst / Ganoderma japonicum (Fr.) Lloyd
Nature and Taste：Sweet and bitter in tastes, neutral in nature, and manifests its therapeutic actions in the heart, lung, spleen and kidney meridians.
Drug actions in TCM: Nourish the heart, calm the spirit, enrich qi (vital energy) and blood, relieve cough or breathing difficulty, and general tonification.
Traditional Uses in TCM: In TCM practice, ganoderma is used for conditions like general weakness, cough, breath difficulty, insomnia, forgetfulness, poor appetite and indigestion:

1. Heart dysfunction causing restless spirit will have signs like insomnia, forgetfulness and fatigue. The condition can be relieved by ganoderma combined with angelica root, sour jujube seed and longan aril.
2. Spleen deficiency leading to poor appetite and fatigue can be relieved by ganoderma combined with pilose asiabell root, largehead atractylodes rhizome and astragalus root.
3. Lung deficiency leading to cough and breath shortness can be relieved by ganoderma combined with cordyceps and tokay.
4. Ganoderma used alone promotes the production of blood and qi, which is benefit for signs like indigestion, poor appetite, fatigue, loose bowels, dizziness and soreness in the lumbar.

Is this a mushroom or fungi? By it's color it seems like it would be easy to find on the forest floor. Does this herb have any psychological effects as I noticed it calms the spirits.

Ganoderma is a genus of polypore mushrooms which grow on wood and include about 80 species, many from tropical regions.Because of their extensive use in traditional Asian medicines, and their potential in bioremediation, they are a very important genus economically. Ganoderma can be differentiated from other polypores because they have a double walled basidiospore.

Hello,
Ganoderma lucidum, and its close relative Ganoderma tsugae, grow in the northern Eastern Hemlock forests. These two species of bracket fungus have a worldwide distribution in both tropical and temperate geographical regions, including North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, growing as a parasite or saprotroph on a wide variety of trees.Similar species of Ganoderma have been found growing in the Amazon and you can find lots of information about Ganoderma on wikipedia..

Lingzhi is a poly pore mushroom genus, which grows in the timber and includes about 80 species, many of them from the tropical regions.Because widely used in traditional Asian medicines, and its potential biological repair, they are a very important economic .

(01-05-2011 06:49 AM)cherylfoster Wrote: [ -> ]Lingzhi is a poly pore mushroom genus, which grows in the timber and includes about 80 species, many of them from the tropical regions.Because widely used in traditional Asian medicines, and its potential biological repair, they are a very important economic .

Thanks for the info.My grandfather is expert in herbal medicines he has lot of traditional equipments which he use to make them