Lingzhi mushrooms: medicinal properties, application. Feedback from doctors and patients

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:45

Hope for the miracle and mystery of Eastern civilization in recent years have made very popular various drugs from China or Thailand. Among them, lingzhi mushrooms are the most famous, which are credited with truly magical properties. Moreover, a certain therapeutic effect of them is noted even by skeptics and critics. And some positive influences are recognized even by traditional medicine. In the end, it is hardly reasonable to immediately reject the developments of healers and herbalists: it was thanks to them that humanity survived for many centuries, while science, along with modern medicine, developed and accumulated knowledge.

What is lingzhi

The scientific name of the fungus is varnished tinder fungus. Among Korean and Chinese healers, he has been respected for thousands of years. The name “lingzhi” itself is translated from Chinese as “plant of immortality”. The Japanese also treated him with great respect and called him the mushroom of spiritual power ("reishi"). In nature, this tinder fungus is quite difficult to find - it is capricious to growing conditions. Therefore, the healers who found his thickets kept them a big secret: plantations wherelingzhi mushrooms multiply, became an invaluable dowry and could provide a comfortable existence for several generations. They cost more than gold of the same weight. And until 1972, until the secret of greenhouse cultivation of Ganoderma was discovered, it was available only to very rich people. True, traditional healers do not approve of the “artificial” lingzhi mushroom: its medicinal properties, as they believe, are not gaining full strength due to certain restrictions on growing conditions. However, from a scientific point of view, the greenhouse tinder fungus is no different from the one grown in the wild.

What Reishi heals

As the practice of Eastern healers shows, the range of application of ganoderma is very wide. Are you ready to trust Asian wisdom and try lingzhi mushroom? Its medicinal properties are such that the plant can help in the following cases:

1. Prevention and treatment of cancer. Even more successful is its effect on benign tumors.
2. Normalization of cardiac activity. Lingzhi mushrooms are especially effective for angina pectoris and arrhythmias.
3. A pronounced effect is observed in various pathologies of the lungs and bronchi.
4. Ganoderma treatment of viral and bacterial infections gives clear results. Moreover, herpes, chlamydia, trichomonelias are susceptible to it - hidden ongoing infections that official medicine recognizes as incurable.
5. In the treatment of osteoporosis, arthrosis, osteochondrosis, polyarthritis, lingzhi mushroom can also be useful. Reviews of peopleexperienced the effect of this remedy, they say that after a course of therapy, the condition improved, the symptoms became less pronounced.
6. The properties of the lingzhi mushroom are most pronounced in relation to allergic reactions. To combat allergies, this folk medicine is especially actively and willingly used in Thailand.
7. Lingzhi mushrooms also act on the nervous system. Eastern healers claim that tinder fungi are able to eliminate migraine, which is recognized as incurable, significantly weaken and delay Alzheimer's disease, make the course of vegetovascular dystonia milder, help eliminate depression, successfully fight the manifestations of Parkinson's disease and normalize memory when it is weakened by age.

A "side effect" of taking tinder extracts is an increase in a person's stress resistance.

Lingzhi mushroom: doctors' reviews

Official medicine, as you know, is very wary of the favorite drugs and folk methods. However, she turned out to be supportive of the tinder fungus. "Officials" recognized as many as three features that the Chinese lingzhi mushroom possesses. Reviews of doctors in this regard are unanimous:

• reishi is uniquely non-toxic;
• tinder has no side effects, which is extremely rare;
• Ganoderma has a complex effect, and does not treat any individual organ.

Thanks to these qualities, Chinese doctors, representatives of traditional medicine, in some casesrecommend the use of lingzhi mushrooms along with medications as maintenance therapy.

Admission rules

Let's say right away: no matter how good the lingzhi mushroom is, healers' reviews about it warn that this remedy should not be taken as a panacea for all ills. In addition to using medicines based on tinder fungus, you should listen to the doctor's recommendations, do not forget about proper nutrition and a he althy lifestyle. If you constantly ruin the body, then no miracle remedy will save it. Moreover, you need to remember the reasonable use of any folk remedies and preparations, which undoubtedly include the lingzhi mushroom. Its use will be effective only if the drug is taken for a long time - at least six months.

It is worth noting that usually the package contains instructions that regulate the mode of application. And in most cases, it is suggested to immediately take 2 tablets (capsules) three times a day. However, people familiar with the principles of Tibetan medicine call such prescriptions dubious: it welcomes gradualness and smoothness. So it’s better to start, according to them, with one tablet twice a day, after a week move on to two according to the same schedule, and only after that - to the manufacturer’s recommendations.

Don't eat lingzhi mushrooms after 4pm either. They greatly stimulate physical activity, which can lead to insomnia or nighttime restlessness.

Who needs to be careful

As suchLingzhi mushroom extract has no contraindications. However, some restrictions are still introduced, as in the case of the use of any drug.

1. At significant stages of pregnancy, the amount of drug taken should be reduced. The allowable maximum is one capsule per day. Lingzhi mushrooms are not able to harm the fetus or the he alth of the expectant mother, but they can provoke a cleansing of the body, which will complicate the course of pregnancy.
2. If the patient has had a hemorrhagic stroke, the drug is allowed only six months after it. The ischemic variant allows for immediate treatment.
3. Do not take lingzhi mushroom extract for too long: you can "spoil" your body, and it will shift all its protective functions to the drug. Sometimes the immune system has to remember that it is supposed to work. So healers recommend taking long breaks between courses. This is a must.

And do not forget that there is such a nuisance as individual intolerance. If lingzhi mushrooms are new to you, introduce them into your diet little by little, listening to your feelings.

Mushrooms against cancer

Let's pay attention to the specific uses of the tinder fungus. Almost at the official level, the high antitumor effect of lingzhi is recognized. Mushrooms contain two components that resist cancer. The first is active anti-cancer polysaccharides that activate macrophages and stimulate the activity of T-lymphocytes. Both are powerful barriers to education.metastasis and detrimental effect on already existing cancer cells. The second assistant is terpenoids. They prevent the accumulation of free radicals, thereby preventing the formation of a tumor.

Of course, lingzhi mushrooms can hardly be recommended as the only means of fighting cancer, since the disease is very dangerous and insidious. However, a number of studies have convincingly proved that if you use a course of Ganoderma extract once a year, you can protect yourself from the occurrence of tumors. So as a preventive measure, reishi is definitely successful. In the process of treatment, the maintenance course effectively localizes tumors, slows down their development and alleviates the general condition of the patient.

Say no to allergies

The anti-allergic effect is based on the antimicrobial abilities of the lingzhi mushroom extract. Reviews of patients and doctors in this regard agree: the tinder fungus does not suppress the activity of microbes, but kills the microorganisms themselves. In parallel, all types of human metabolism are improved. Of course, the treatment of allergies with Reishi is a lengthy process and will take at least a year, but rather even two. But, according to practitioners of oriental medicine, it is not accompanied by any side effects, and allergies go away forever. And along with its consequences like bronchial asthma or atopic dermatitis.

Fight against diabetes

The polysaccharides included in lingzhi, called Ganoderan A, B and C, are responsible for it. United front with themprotein derivatives also appear. They naturally balance blood sugar and keep it at the right level. According to experts, the great advantage of the extract of this fungus is that it can be used constantly, since it does not accumulate in the human body and does not carry any side effects. In pluses it is possible to write down also impossibility of overdose. In addition, skipping a dose will not immediately affect he alth, since previous doses have a prolonged effect. Another bonus is the improvement in tissue healing. As you know, diabetics often suffer even from small wounds that heal with great difficulty. Preparations based on lingzhi mushrooms accelerate and improve this process. Another beneficial effect of the extract is the gradual normalization of the patient's metabolism. As a result, it is possible to avoid a huge number of typical complications caused by these disorders and characteristic of diabetes mellitus.

Lingzhi in cosmetology

Since the tinder fungus is the "mushroom of immortality", it means that it must convey these qualities to the appearance of a person, well, at least to some extent. Chinese cosmetologists widely use it to create miracle creams for the skin. Experts say that ganoderma prevents the penetration of destructive free radicals into the epithelium, stabilizes the synthesis of the necessary nucleic acids at the right level and reduces the intensity of natural oxidative processes. As a result, skin aging slows down.integument, cell division is enhanced, regeneration of the integument returns the skin to a young state. Reviews of people who have experienced the action of the tinder fungus on themselves emphasize that the skin becomes noticeably more elastic, fine wrinkles are smoothed out, and age wrinkles become less deep. In parallel, its color improves, pores narrow. The result is smoother, he althier-looking skin.

Tinder for weight loss

This direction most of all spoiled the reputation of the healing mushroom in the eyes of the international (including Russian) society. However, lingzhi mushroom for weight loss is used quite actively. He, theoretically, should act in several directions at once. First, to suppress appetite, as a result of which food intake should decrease in the first week. Secondly, to normalize and stimulate the work of the liver, which, due to this, will more efficiently break down the highly nutritious substances entering the body. Thirdly, to speed up the metabolism, including in its scope the existing fat layer, which should actually burn out under the influence of reishi.

Judging by the reviews, there are three ways to achieve the desired effect:

1. Use mushroom infusion. Pounded tinder fungus is poured with warm water at the rate of half a glass per teaspoon and drunk in a shaken state in one gulp (three times during daylight hours).
2. Nar. Two tablespoons of crushed lingzhi are poured with a glass of boiling water and steamed in a water bath for a quarter of an hour. potiontaken before meals by large spoon.
3. Ready-made capsules - by the way, the easiest way, but the least approved by healers. Drink the drug three times, before each meal, with a small amount of water. And no less than half an hour before you take a spoon.

There are already quite a few people who have used lingzhi mushroom for weight loss. Reviews of those who have passed such a course are far from unambiguous. However, it was not possible to find especially enthusiastic ones. Nobody lost the promised 20 kilograms in two months, and the loss of three can also be attributed to the placebo effect. A slight decrease in appetite was noted. And maybe it is caused by the memory of how much the lingzhi mushroom extract cost. Metabolic changes, if they have occurred, cannot be measured at home. In a word, sheer disappointment.

On the other hand, the same can be said about any weight loss product. Those who want to lose extra pounds somehow lose sight of the fact that taking pills / capsules / extracts should be accompanied by active body movements, without which the released energy has nothing to spend on. And the manufacturer's instructions on the need for sports or just regular walks are neglected by most of us. So is it worth it in this case to blame the fact that the lingzhi mushroom (for weight loss supposedly - the very thing!) Did not provide the desired result? Yet without the slightest effort on the part of the owner, with the help of only "magic pills", the body is hardly able to lose weight.