Reishi As Alternative Medicine
Reishi is an alternative medicine that has been used in
- It lowers blood pressure and cholesterol.
- It is used to prevent and to treat coronary heart disease.
- In
- It is a treatment and preventative for memory loss.
- It is used to treat asthma and coughs.
- It is a remedy for insomnia and fatigue.
Reishi is available as teas, tablets, tinctures and extract. This mushroom is very safe and can be taken over a long period without any side effects. It is best taken with an empty stomach in the morning. Reishi can be used by pregnant or nursing women and children. Very often it is combined with other herbs. Mountain climbers often consumed this medicinal mushroom to combat altitude sickness. Today Reishi is still popular as an alternative medicine for promoting vitality and combating fatigue.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Extracts from a mushroom used for centuries in Eastern Asian medicine may stop breast cancer cells from growing and could become a new weapon in the fight against the killer disease, scientists said on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008.
Laboratory tests using human breast cancer cells show the mushroom called Phellinus linteus has a marked anti-cancer effect, probably by blocking an enzyme called AKT. AKT is known to control signals that lead to cell growth.
Phellinus linteus -- called song gen in Chinese medicine, sang-hwang in Korean and meshimakobu in Japanese -- has previously been shown to have anti-tumor properties on skin, lung and prostate cancer cells.
The new research on breast cancer, however, marks the first time that scientists have started to understand how it works.
Dr Daniel Sliva of the Methodist Research Institute in Indianapolis said the mushroom extract reduced uncontrolled growth of new cancer cells, suppressed their aggressive behavior and blocked new tumor-feeding blood vessels.
"We're not yet able to apply this knowledge to modern medicine, but we ... hope our study will encourage more researchers to explore the use of medicinal mushrooms for the treatment of cancer," he said.
The findings were reported in the British Journal of Cancer.
Contact me for more information about commercially produced supplement containing Reishi (Ganodurma lucidum), Phellinus linteus and other 12 mushrooms. I personally take this supplement for almost five years as prevention.
Thanks Zdena,
I do know that a lot of Asian people the Vietnamese and Chinese take reishi on a regular basis. It is rather expensive but I believe the health benefits far out weigh the expenses.
Well tenom894, first, as you indicated, you cannot put price on wellness. Second, the supplement I mentioned is produced by company originated in Japan. A container of 60 capsules (a monthly supply 2 per day) in retail price in US is $35.00 (plus tax and S/H). But it can go down to $25.34 (what I pay) and it seems to me very reasonable. Statistically, 1 dollar in prevention can avoid 9 dollars in treatment. And that is what I shoot for. For more information about ‘Immunity’ visit Kenzen Targeted Nutrition or view nutrition label.
Zdena,
It's so true - we can not put a price on good health. Very often we take our health for granted and then it's too late to reverse the damage.
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