What are the common varieties of wild reishi mushrooms? One article explains it clearly
Wild reishi mushrooms, because of their different varieties, have both similarities and individual characteristics in their pharmacological effects. The individual characteristics of the different common varieties of wild reishi mushrooms are introduced below:
Flat-cap reishi
Documented names: tree tongue, tree tongue flat reishi, flat reishi, flat wood reishi, soap fungus ear, etc.
Morphological characteristics: fruiting body perennial, sessile, woody, cap semicircular, nearly kidney-shaped or irregular.
Functions: slightly bitter, neutral. Anti-cancer, mainly treats acute and chronic hepatitis, early-stage cirrhosis, esophageal cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer, breast cancer.
Sessile red reishi
Documented names: round-pore reishi, flat reishi, tree reishi, sanxiu, reishi, sessile reishi, etc.
Functions: sweet and bland, slightly bitter, neutral, non-toxic. It can tonify the lungs and benefit the kidneys, harmonize the stomach and strengthen the spleen, calm the mind and stabilize the will, and support the upright and cultivate the root. In addition to having therapeutic effects on cancer, cerebral hemorrhage, and heart disease, it also has significant therapeutic effects on the stomach and intestines, liver, kidneys, leukemia, neurasthenia, chronic bronchitis, and more. In addition, it also has multiple actions and effects such as strengthening essence, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antibacterial, detoxifying, diuretic, and blood-purifying, and is a natural immunomodulator with a long history.
Purple reishi
Documented names: purple reishi, black reishi, zhi, Chinese reishi, wood zhi, reishi herb. Morphological characteristics: fruiting body annual, stipitate, corky to woody.
Functions: bland, warm. It can tonify the center and strengthen the intellect, calm the heart and benefit the stomach, and is used for neurasthenia, insomnia, stomach pain, indigestion, and neutralizing fungal toxins. It has a certain anti-cancer effect, and is mostly cultivated artificially.
Pine needle polypore
Documented names: pine wood polypore, red-banded tree tongue, pine-growing polypore, red-banded polypore.
Morphological characteristics: fruiting body perennial, corky, sessile, cap flat millet-spherical to horseshoe-shaped. The fruiting body contains active substances such as eburicoic acid, and is the variety with the best cancer-treating effect among all fungi. The fruiting body extract has an inhibition rate of nearly 100% against mouse sarcoma 180 and Ehrlich ascites carcinoma. Recorded on page 73 of "Color Atlas of Chinese Macrofungi".
Tropical reishi
Documented names: reishi herb, reishi mushroom, red reishi, acacia reishi.
Morphological characteristics: fruiting body annual, stipitate, corky, cap kidney-shaped, semicircular with a posterior margin, sometimes circular.
Functions: taste slightly bitter, nature neutral, nourishing, strengthening, anti-tumor, mainly treats tumors and coronary heart disease.
Thin-cap reishi
Documented name: thin tree zhi.
Functions: functions are the same as red reishi, more effective on the immune system, with special effects on lupus erythematosus, muscular dystrophy, scleroderma, muscle atrophy, myositis, etc., and is even more precious. Antler reishi. Documented names: Anbeina reishi, antler-like reishi, reishi.
Morphological characteristics: fruiting body annual, stipitate, corky.
Functions: can nourish, strengthen the body, benefit the brain, reduce inflammation, promote urination, and benefit the stomach. Used for neurasthenia, palpitations and dizziness, restless sleep at night, chronic hepatitis, bronchitis, asthma, longstanding stomach disease, poisoning from accidental ingestion of toxic fungi, coronary heart disease, and other conditions.
Spotted brown polypore
Documented name: stratified resupinate polypore.
Morphological characteristics: fruiting body perennial, without a cap, resupinate and appressed to the surface of the substrate.
Nature, flavor, and functions: abrupt, warm. It can invigorate blood and free the menses, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. Used for heart pain (angina pectoris), arrhythmia, as well as blood-stasis amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, and abdominal masses and accumulations. Its effect in treating coronary heart disease is very good. Spotted brown polypore has effects such as resisting myocardial ischemia, regulating heart rhythm, resisting ectopic heart rhythm, improving cardiac function, lowering blood pressure, changing blood flow, and regulating peripheral blood white blood cell count, and can be used to treat coronary heart disease and arrhythmia. It is very precious.
Red reishi
Documented names: danzhi, red zhi, blood reishi, flushed reishi, reishi mushroom, sanxiu, ten-thousand-year mushroom, auspicious mushroom, etc.
Morphological characteristics: fruiting body annual, stipitate, corky, cap kidney-shaped, semicircular, rarely nearly circular. This species has a short growth period and is widely cultivated artificially in China. Functions: sweet and bland, slightly bitter, neutral, non-toxic, entering the heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney meridians. It can tonify the lungs and benefit the kidneys, harmonize the stomach and strengthen the spleen, calm the mind and stabilize the will, and support the upright and consolidate the root.