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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374</id><updated>2024-03-13T11:30:51.684-07:00</updated><title type='text'>mushroom</title><subtitle type='html'>JUST ANOTHER FUNGUS? Reishi mushrooms are a polypore mushroom. Mushrooms are the fruiting body and reproductive structure of a higher order fungus organism, much like an apple is the fruit of an apple tree.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default?alt=atom'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01897311801459361338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374.post-112874351102049826</id><published>2005-10-07T20:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-07T20:51:51.026-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bean There? The Coffee Bean ©</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://www.coffee-bean.ca&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7568/783/320/Coffee_Reishi.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;The Coffee Bean ©&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bean there?  it is fine. Order from Canada, Europe and Asia, pick your coffee choices and your roasting preferences. Then choose your grind fine medium or course ground. We will roast and ship by your choice post or FedEx or the Brown Guys. PayPal and online transitions are OK as well as checks do note we will only roast and ship your order after we have clearance on your funds. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best Regards&lt;br /&gt;The Coffee Bean ©&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get Your Front End Address Today!&lt;br /&gt;www.&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight:bold;&quot;&gt;YourName&lt;span style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.coffee-bean.ca</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/feeds/112874351102049826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8382374&amp;postID=112874351102049826' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/112874351102049826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/112874351102049826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/2005/10/bean-there-coffee-bean.html' title='Bean There? The Coffee Bean ©'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01897311801459361338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374.post-111024226569721137</id><published>2005-03-07T16:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-03-07T16:38:20.660-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Red, Green, White, Black, Yellow and Purple. LING CHI</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(153, 102, 51);font-size:180%;&quot; &gt;W&lt;/span&gt;ild Reishi is extremely rare. Only one or two mushrooms can be found on a hill. Due to damage by insects and weather, the quality of wild Reishi is unpredictable. Only the fruit body can be harvested, when the active ingredients have already decreased. The dried mushrooms may not have the potency of the fresh mushroom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(153, 102, 51);font-size:180%;&quot; &gt;W&lt;/span&gt;hen buying wild Reishi, expertise is required in order not to confuse Reishi with the hundreds of other mushrooms (some of which are poisonous). After it matures, the fruit body is hardened by fibers which make it more difficult to extract and digest the active ingredients. The spores are of microscopic dimensions, similar to the size of bacteria. They are protected by two layers of hardened cell walls. These cell walls trap the active ingredients inside and are indigestible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(153, 102, 51);font-size:180%;&quot; &gt;A&lt;/span&gt;lthough wild Reishi fruit body and the spores are all effective products, our ancestors had to use a large quantity of Reishi to get a little benefit. As it was impossible to cultivate, this rare mushroom was available only to emperors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(153, 102, 51);font-size:180%;&quot; &gt;M&lt;/span&gt;odern bio-engineering technology has made Reishi available to the general public in large quantities. The quality can be carefully controlled by providing the best conditions and sufficient nutrients. Further investigations have discovered that the largest amount of active ingredients exists in the mycelium, and that the mycelium is more digestible. The extraction process can be timed at the precise stage when the mycelium contains the largest amount of active ingredients. Fresh mycelium is available, and there is no chance for mistaken identity. Without the obstacles of the fibers, the extraction is more complete and the extract is more digestible. Therefore, the latest research on the medicinal properties of Reishi is done on the mycelia extracts.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/feeds/111024226569721137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8382374&amp;postID=111024226569721137' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/111024226569721137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/111024226569721137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/2005/03/red-green-white-black-yellow-and.html' title='Red, Green, White, Black, Yellow and Purple. LING CHI'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01897311801459361338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374.post-110852951235275268</id><published>2005-02-15T20:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-02-15T20:51:52.353-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Reishi Mushrooms Gonderma Lucidum ; Ling zhi ; Gano Coffee</title><content type='html'>JUST ANOTHER FUNGUS? Reishi mushrooms are a polypore mushroom. Mushrooms are the fruiting body and reproductive structure of a higher order fungus organism, much like an apple is the fruit of an apple tree. The actual mushroom &quot;tree&quot; is a fine thread-like network called mycelium. This mycelium is for the most part subterranean, living in soil, logs and other organic litter. Unlike green plants, which produce many of their own nutrients by photosynthesis, mushrooms primarily get their nutrients from dead organic matter or soil. Mushrooms and their mycelium are nature&#39;s original recyclers. Without them, the planet surface would be piled high with dead, decaying material and many symbiotic relationships would fail to have occured. Mushrooms rise out of the mycelium when the right nutrients are amassed and the right environmental conditions present themselves. Mushrooms release spores at maturity. The wind spreads them and when they land on the right spot, the cycle starts over again.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/feeds/110852951235275268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8382374&amp;postID=110852951235275268' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/110852951235275268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/110852951235275268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/2005/02/reishi-mushrooms-gonderma-lucidum-ling.html' title='Reishi Mushrooms Gonderma Lucidum ; Ling zhi ; Gano Coffee'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01897311801459361338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374.post-110852935538745620</id><published>2005-02-15T20:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-02-15T20:49:15.386-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Coffee Mushrooms mushroomz</title><content type='html'>Coffee Ganoderma lucidum . The late Hiroshi Hikino, recognized as the world&#39;s authority on the chemistry of Oriental medicinal plants, called Reishi one of &quot;the most important elixirs in the Orient.&quot; Relatively rare and undiscovered in the West, Reishi and other mushrooms have been revered as herbal medicines for thousands of years in Japan and China. Emperors of the great Chinese dynasties and Japanese royalty drank teas and concoctions of the mushroom for vitality and long life. The ancient Taoists traditionalists were constantly searching for the elixir of eternal youth believing Reishi was one of the leading ingredients . In modern times, Ganoderma lucidum and its fellow mushrooms have been well-researched in Asian universities. It is currently being studied in China as a sports performance enhancer. Its long History of use and success has sparked interest in the West.  Herbalists regularly use Reishi to treat diverse problems such as allergies, chronic Fatigue Syndrome, diabetes, liver diseases and many immune-related diseases.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/feeds/110852935538745620/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8382374&amp;postID=110852935538745620' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/110852935538745620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/110852935538745620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/2005/02/coffee-mushrooms-mushroomz.html' title='Coffee Mushrooms mushroomz'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01897311801459361338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374.post-110715349656943926</id><published>2005-01-30T22:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-02-15T20:40:21.920-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mushroomz ; Reishi ; Ling Zhi ; Ganoderma Lucidum Reishi Gano Coffee</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Reishi Ling Zhi Ganoderma Lucidum Gano Coffee ©&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:180%;&quot;&gt;Pepper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:8@matrixz.com&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;&quot;  &gt;∞&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ling-zhi.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;MatrixZ Power.&quot; src=&quot;http://sc.groups.msn.com/tn/37/72/PepperPics/1/2.jpg&quot; height=&quot;236&quot; width=&quot;126&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:zooz@matrixz.com&quot;&gt;Ź∞Ź&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/feeds/110715349656943926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8382374&amp;postID=110715349656943926' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/110715349656943926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/110715349656943926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/2005/01/mushroomz-reishi-ling-zhi-ganoderma.html' title='Mushroomz ; Reishi ; Ling Zhi ; Ganoderma Lucidum Reishi Gano Coffee'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01897311801459361338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374.post-110590099439855902</id><published>2005-01-16T10:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-02-15T20:42:45.463-08:00</updated><title type='text'>LING ZHI Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://ling-zhi.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;LING ZHI Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mushroomz :TCS newswire: the coffee bean stories; Red Reishi Mushroom / Ganoderma lucidum / Ling Zhi&lt;br /&gt;Red Reishi Mushroom / Ganoderma lucidum / Ling Zhi: &#39;Red Reishi Mushroom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;General Information:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Even though there are several different colors of Reishi mushrooms, Red Reishi is the one that is most well known and used. For over 4000 years, Red Reishi mushrooms have been most revered in traditional Chinese medicine equaling ginseng as a premier substance for the attainment of radiant health, longevity, and spiritual attainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traditionally, Reishi has been used as an anti-aging herb to treat many diseases and disorders. Daoist traditionalists rever this mushroom as the elixir of immortality, claiming it promotes calmness, centeredness, balance, and inner awareness and strength.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reishi contains sterols, coumarin, mannitol, polysaccharides, and triterpenoids called ganoderic acids. It is thought that ganoderic acid lowers blood pressure, LDL (low density lipoprotein cholesterol), and triglyceride levels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The triterpenoids also play an important role in lowering the risk of coronary artery disease.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/feeds/110590099439855902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8382374&amp;postID=110590099439855902' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/110590099439855902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/110590099439855902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/2005/01/ling-zhi-reishi-ganoderma-lucidum.html' title='LING ZHI Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01897311801459361338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374.post-109585555271486537</id><published>2004-09-22T05:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-02-15T20:45:06.446-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mushrooms : TCS newswire ; the coffee bean;</title><content type='html'>Mushroomz:TCS newswire; Coffee Stories ; &quot;The actual discovery of coffee is vague, however most accounts point to a quaint legend of a wee goat and his herder Kaldi,  in the 1400&#39;s Kaldi noticed his goats acting more lively than usual. He looked over to see some of the herd chewing on bushes heavy with red berries. Curious, he plucked a few berries for himself and after chewing on them, noticed his energy increase substantially. He took the berries to a local monastery where the chief monk boiled the berries in water and produced an aromatic but bitter liquid, which when drunk acted as a stimulant and warded off drowsiness and fatigue. &quot;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/feeds/109585555271486537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8382374&amp;postID=109585555271486537' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/109585555271486537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/109585555271486537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/2004/09/mushrooms-tcs-newswire-coffee-bean.html' title='Mushrooms : TCS newswire ; the coffee bean;'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01897311801459361338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374.post-109585548001319722</id><published>2004-09-22T05:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-02-15T20:48:05.170-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Reishi mushrooms mushroomz</title><content type='html'>&quot;Reishi mushrooms are certainly an herb for the millennium and beyond,&quot; commented Hugh Garse, president of Reishi-Mushroom. &quot;Considering that Reishi has a history of use that spans 4,000 years and is more highly revered than ginseng in the Orient, one could readily compare its market potential to that of ginseng.&quot; Questions, comments, suggestions, and requests for further information are welcome. Send email to: datalive@gmail.com</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/feeds/109585548001319722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8382374&amp;postID=109585548001319722' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/109585548001319722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8382374/posts/default/109585548001319722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mushroomz.blogspot.com/2004/09/reishi-mushrooms-mushroomz.html' title='Reishi mushrooms mushroomz'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01897311801459361338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382374.post-109556502027417239</id><published>2004-09-18T20:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-02-15T20:53:32.956-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wild Mushroomz :LING ZHI : Reishi : Ganodera Lucidum</title><content type='html'>Wild Mushrooms&lt;br /&gt;REISHI: ANCIENT MEDICINE IS MODERN HOPE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western culture is beginning to use mushrooms, the small innocuous forest growth. The French prize their truffles, but even truffles and other edible fungi and mushrooms are not as highly valued or show as much potential as a species of mushrooms called Ling Zhi or Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum). The late Hiroshi Hikino, recognized as the world&#39;s authority on the chemistry of Oriental medicinal plants, called Reishi one of &quot;the most important elixirs in the Orient.&quot; Relatively rare and undiscovered in the West, Reishi and other mushrooms have been revered as herbal medicines for thousands of years in Japan and China. Emperors of the great Chinese dynasties and Japanese royalty drank teas and concoctions of the mushroom for vitality and long life. The ancient Taoists were constantly searching for the elixir of eternal youth, and Reishi was believed to be among the ingredients. In modern times, Ganoderma lucidum and its fellow mushrooms have been well-researched in Asian universities. It is currently being studied in China as a sports performance enhancer. Its long History has sparked interest in the West where it is used by herbalists to treat diverse problems such as allergies, chronic Fatigue Syndrome, diabetes, liver diseases and many immune-related diseases. As little as 30 years ago, Reishi was rarely found in Asia. It grew in the wild, but was extremely hard to cultivate. Now with an increased knowledge of the environment it thrives in, botanists are able to set up artificial growth conditions with the correct amounts of oxygen and moisture for the spores to grow into the Reishi mushroom. JUST ANOTHER FUNGUS? Reishi mushrooms are a polypore mushroom. Mushrooms are the fruiting body and reproductive structure of a higher order fungus organism, much like an apple is the fruit of an apple tree. The actual mushroom &quot;tree&quot; is a fine thread-like network called mycelium. This mycelium is for the most part subterranean, living in soil, logs and other organic litter. Unlike green plants, which produce many of their own nutrients by photosynthesis, mushrooms primarily get their nutrients from dead organic matter or soil. Mushrooms and their mycelium are nature&#39;s original recyclers. Without them, the planet surface would be piled high with dead, decaying material and many symbiotic relationships would fail to have occured. Mushrooms rise out of the mycelium when the right nutrients are amassed and the right environmental conditions present themselves. Mushrooms release spores at maturity. The wind spreads them and when they land on the right spot, the cycle starts over again. REISHI&#39;S MEDICAL PROPERTIES In the 16th Century pharmacopedia Pen T&#39;sao Kang Mu, which contains hundreds of natural medicines the Chinese have used for thousands of years, compiler Le Shih-chen described the uses of Reishi. &quot;It positively affects the life energy, or qi of the heart, repairing the chest area and benefiting those with a knotted and tight chest.&quot; He wrote that it also increases intellectual capacity and banishes forgetfulness. &quot;Taken over a long period of time, agility of the body will not cease, and the years are lengthened to those of the Immortal Fairies.&quot; In the Orient, Reishi is considered a Fu Zhen herb (immune modulation). Presently, Reishi has various applications including lowering or raising blood pressure, stimulating liver actions, blood cleansing, and acting as an adaptogen in helping the body fight the effects of stress. Chinese herbalists prize it for its abilities to regenerate the liver. In high doses, and to some degree normal doses, Ganoderma maybe classified as a liver detoxicant and protectant. In traditional Oriental applications Reishi is also used to treat insomnia, gastric ulcers, neurasthenia, arthritis, nephritis, asthma, bronchitis, hypertension and poisoning. It is also being used in treating neuromuscular disorders -- stress-induced tension, myasthenia gravis and muscular dystrophy -- all with varying degrees of success. Toxicity studies show no toxic effects on humans. In research, patients are given much higher doses, as high as 10 grams of extract per day, with no ill effects.&lt;br /&gt;ACTIVE INGREDIENTS The potency of Reishi mushrooms is usually based on its level of triterpenoids. One can determine the level of this by tasting it. The more bitter it is, the higher the level of triterpenoids. Because Reishi is a polypore, (a group of hard, woody, bracket-like mushrooms) it is not eaten, but cut into pieces and made into a tea. In China, the average dose is 3 to 5 grams a day. Other popular forms of delivery are the water/alcohol extracts and powders. Reishi mushrooms and mushroom extracts are generally analyzed for specific triterpenoids called Ganoderic acids. When buying a Reishi mushroom product, check for the analysis of how much triterpenoids is in the extract or powder. &quot;There is no standardization yet, either here or in Asia for Reishi. You have to look for high ganoderic acid-A levels, which indicates high levels of other ganoderic acids,&quot; said Kenneth Jones, a researcher/writer specializing in the ethnopharmacology of medicinal plants. One focus for future research is on Reishi spore extracts. In China, it has been used in injectable form in clinical treatments of various ailments with success. One of the things it has successfully treated is low energy, and debilitation following long illness. OTHER APPLICATIONS Chinese women take Reishi for beautification of the skin. The results are probably due to the mushroom&#39;s hormone-potentiating effects, Jones said. Reishi is included in many Japanese patents for hair loss formulas, including products used for alopecia. Spore extract injections of Reishi are also being used to treat lupus in China. The mycelium of Reishi contains high levels of polysaccharides, which have been shown in research to induce the production of interferon. Interferon is a protein produced inside cells to fight viral infection. Polysaccharides are also tumor fighters and help stimulate the immune system. Reishi is being recognized for its adjunct use as an immune system stimulator when cancer therapy is being used. The use of Reishi as a cancer treatment in the Orient is centuries old. In following the concept of qi tonics, Reishi is used to strengthen the body&#39;s resistance to outside forces. Former heart surgeon Dr. Fukumi Morishige, a leading authority on vitamin C in Japan, reports that when Reishi and vitamin C are combined the results against cancer and other diseases are far better than when Reishi is ingested. This is because the vitamin makes the polysaccharides more accessible to the immune system. It is also an adaptogen, with properties similar to ginseng. The adenosine in Reishi may explain why the Chinese use it for patients suffering from nervous tension. Adenosine relaxes skeletal muscles, calms the central nervous system and operates against the stimulating actions of caffeine. &quot;Reishi mushrooms are certainly an herb for the millenium and beyond,&quot; commented Hugh Garse, president of Reishi-Mushroom. &quot;Considering that Reishi has a history of use that spans 4,000 years and is more highly revered than ginseng in the Orient, one could readily compare its market potential to that of ginseng.&quot; Questions, comments, suggestions, and requests for further information are welcome. 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