이상 2,000 years ago, Shennong Materia Medica has recorded the types, properties and efficacies of Ganoderma in detail and summarized that “long-term consumption of Ganoderma helps relieve the body of its weight and extend the years of life”. The magical Ganoderma is not just a legend in mythology.

오늘, many achievements have been made in the research of영지버섯 with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. 예를 들어, pharmacological studies have proved that영지버섯 has the functions of strengthening the heart, resisting myocardial ischemia, improving myocardial microcirculation, and regulating blood lipids and blood rheology. This is related to the TCM theory that영지버섯 removes pathogenic factors congealing in the chest and benefits the heart qi.

Let’s review the top 10 effects of영지버섯 recognized by both traditional Chinese and Western medicine and learn how to eat영지버섯 for better results.

Modern research has proven that영지버섯 and its active components have a wide range of pharmacological effects.

10 Effects of영지버섯are as follows:

1. Immunomodulatory effect.

영지버섯 can enhance non-specific immune function: promote the maturation, differentiation and antigen presentation of dendritic cells, and enhance the functions of mononuclear macrophages and natural killer cells.영지버섯 can enhance specific immune function: promote B and T lymphocytes proliferation and production of antibodies and cytokines.영지버섯 can inhibit immunopathological reactions.

2. Anti-tumor effect.

영지버섯 inhibits the growth of transplanted tumors in mice mainly by enhancing anti-tumor immunity, inhibiting tumor angiogenesis, and inhibiting tumor immune escape.영지버섯 can inhibit tumor cell proliferation and promote tumor cell apoptosis and autophagy in vitro. 게다가, 영지버섯 can antagonize the multidrug resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy drugs, and reduce the damage to the body caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

3.Sedative, sleep aid and analgesic effects.

영지버섯 has preventive and therapeutic effects on disease models such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ischemic stroke, epilepsy and spinal cord injury through anti-inflammatory and antioxidant mechanisms, and can alleviate neurodegenerative disorders,and improve learning and memory abilities. It can also promote nerve regeneration, reduce cerebral ischemia and inhibit epileptic seizures.

4. Cough-relieving, antiasthmatic, anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects.

영지버섯 has preventive and therapeutic effects on animal models of allergic rhinitis, chronic bronchitis, allergic tracheoalveolitis and airway hyperresponsiveness through immune regulation and anti-inflammatory mechanisms.

5. The role of lowering blood pressure, regulating blood lipids and protecting the heart.

영지버섯 can lower blood pressure, serum total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein and increase high-density lipoprotein. It can protect vascular endothelial cells against oxidative stress-induced inflammatory damage. It can improve myocardial microcirculation, reduce myocardial damage and have a protective effect on myocardial ischemia.

6. The role of regulating endocrine and improving diabetes.

영지버섯 can reduce blood sugar in diabetic animal models, reduce islet damage, promote insulin secretion and improve diabetic complications such as diabetic nephropathy, cardiomyopathy, wound healing and retinopathy. It can ameliorate liver damage in hyperthyroid mice. It has no sex hormone-like effect but can increase the serum levels of testosterone and estradiol in castrated female rats, increase the bone mineral density of the femur and reduce the degree of endometrial atrophy. In vitro test, it can inhibit the activity of 5-alpha reductase and inhibit the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone.

7. Protect gastric mucosa and prevent liver damage.

영지버섯 can improve gastric ulcers caused by alcohol, drugs, stress, pyloric ligation and other incentives.영지버섯 can inhibit the inflammation of the digestive tract induced by drugs and fungal infections, improve the immune function of the intestinal mucosa, and regulate the imbalance of intestinal flora.영지버섯 may have protective effects against non-alcoholic liver disease as well as alcoholic liver disease through anti-oxidative stress and anti-inflammatory effects.영지버섯 has the effect of anti-Hepatitis B Virus.영지버섯 can protect against liver damage caused by oxidative stress caused by drugs and poisons as well as immune liver damage.

8. Prevent acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.

영지버섯 has inhibitory effects on canine kidney epithelial cell vesicle model, cellular tubulogenesis model, embryonic kidney vesicle model and mouse polycystic kidney model. It has a preventive and therapeutic effect on animal models of urinary system diseases such as acute kidney injury, diabetic nephropathy, renal fibrosis and urinary system tumors.

9. Anti-aging effect.

영지버섯 improves immune function reduction caused by aging.영지버섯 has anti-oxidative and free radical scavenging effects, can reduce the oxidative stress of the heart, brain, 간, spleen, skin and other organs and tissues caused by aging, and improve the learning and memory impairment caused by aging. It can also regulate aging genes of model organisms and prolong lifespan.

10. Antiviral effect.

By inhibiting viral adsorption and penetration, 영지버섯 inhibits the activation of early antigens of viruses, inhibits the activities of viral reverse transcriptases and proteases, and hinders viral DNA or RNA replication and viral protein synthesis.영지버섯 has antiviral effects on influenza virus, herpes virus, hepatitis B virus, human immunodeficiency virus, Newcastle disease virus, dengue virus and enterovirus.

메모: The above content is excerpted fromPharmacology and Clinics of Ganoderma lucidum published by Peking University Medical Press, edited by Zhi-Bin Lin and Bao-Xue Yang, P11-P15

How to eat영지버섯 for better effect?

현재, the methods of consuming영지버섯 include boiling with water, grinding into powder, extracting and concentrating, breaking sporoderm and extracting.

Any method of consumption is a reprocessing of the raw material. The efficacies of영지버섯 obtained by these different processing methods are not the same, 즉, the absorption effect of영지버섯 active components by the human body is different.

Water-boiling method

This method slices the fruiting body of영지버섯 and boils it with water, which is the most common way of eating and also “the most primary hot water extraction”.

The water-boiling method is a bit laborious but economical, suitable for general health care. The boiled contents are mainly water-soluble영지버섯 polysaccharides and less liposoluble영지버섯 triterpenes, but the bitterness is still quite strong, which is difficult for some people to accept.

Extraction and concentration method

“Extraction and concentration” is an enhanced version of “water-boiled영지버섯“. It also uses a solvent to obtain the active ingredients. The difference is that through advanced equipment and processes, more active ingredients can be extracted, and then concentrated and dried to make영지버섯 extract capsules or powders, which are more convenient to take and have better effects.

The water-extracted products mainly contain영지버섯 polysaccharides; the alcohol-extracted products mainly contain영지버섯 triterpenes. As for how much active ingredient can be extracted, 추출 기술에 따라 다릅니다. The영지버섯 products made by different extraction processes have different types of ingredients and levels of content.

Sporoderm-breaking method

Sporoderm-broken영지버섯 spore powder is the most commonly seen영지버섯 product on the market. Since the outermost layer of the spore has a hard sporoderm, it needs to be “broken” before its active components can be better released.

Animal experiments show that sporoderm-broken영지버섯 spore powder is far better than sporoderm-unbroken영지버섯 spore powder in improving immune function. 물론, sporoderm breaking must be real rather than a gimmick. How to differentiate? Under the microscope, you can see the difference immediately.

Fractional extraction

This has to be a technology that big enterprises can achieve. Using advanced technologies such as supercritical carbon dioxide extraction technology, the lipid in the spores can be effectively extracted.

Every procedure of extracting and encapsulating spore oil must be very careful to avoid oxidative deterioration of spore oil due to contact with air. Obviously, making a bottle of spore oil is not easy. It is not known how many kilograms of spore powder are needed to extract a vial of spore oil. The high cost makes it one of the most expensive raw materials for영지버섯.

The above content is excerpted from Wu Tingyao’sGanoderma로 치유, P58-63

GanoHerb Organic영지버섯 has been certified organic by China, 미국, Japan and the European Union for 17 연속년. Its plantation has also passed the GLOBALG.A.P.  certification. 이상 400 items of pesticide residue tests come back negative each year. GanoHerb has achieved a high standard that is difficult to replicate. Only by controlling the quality from the source can the customers be assured!

사실은, whether it is fruiting body or spore powder, the most critical processing technology is still “extraction”. Only by extracting various active ingredients can the value of each mouthful of영지버섯 be improved! So how to choose and eat영지버섯 in the future? Have you got any idea?

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