Reishi Mushrooms: Nature’s Disease-Fighting Healing Powerhouse

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Reishi Mushrooms: Nature’s Disease-Fighting Healing Powerhouse

Written by: Priscilla Cash Off-Grid Foods May 19, 2014 0 Print This Article

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Reishi mushrooms (Ganoderma lucidum) are stunning powerhouses. Perhaps even more breathtaking than their colorful conks of red, orange and white are their amazing health benefits. Locked within the tough walls of this fungus are immune-boosting and cancer-fighting properties. Brewing tea from these woody, non-culinary mushrooms is a simple way to extract these properties and make them available for our benefit.
These amazing mushrooms were first noticed in the Orient thousands of years ago. The glossy red conks were rare, with people searching hundreds and hundreds of trees before finding the kidney shaped mushrooms clinging to the bark. The mushrooms first appear as white tipped antlers. Over months of slow growth, the antlers spread out into glossy red and orange centers with light orange or white edges.

The most common Reishi mushroom is the red Reishi, which has a deep chocolate-red color. Originally, these rare conks were reserved for royalty. Reishi is Japanese for “the 10,000 year mushroom.

” In Korea and China, the mushrooms were known as “the mushrooms of immortality” and “the resurrection plant.” The ancient world knew the value of these mushrooms long before the modern scientific community began to discover the health-boosting and disease-fighting properties these mushrooms contain.
Today, Reishi mushrooms are associated with many health-related claims, though not all have been affirmed. Claims that Reishi mushrooms treat fatigue and increase strength and stamina lack concrete evidence, but laboratory studies have shown encouraging possibilities for immune system support.
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Those struggling with HIV and AIDS as well as some kinds of cancer have been treated with Reishi mushroom. The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center shares that “Laboratory studies suggest that reishi mushroom may stimulate some cells of the immune system. A small clinical trial showed that reishi can enhance the immune responses in advanced-stage cancer patients.”
Dr. Andrew Weil, a medical doctor, naturopath, and founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, encourages cancer patients to use Reishi mushrooms for their immune function support and anti-inflammatory properties. Doctors and scientists have just begun to scratch the surface of what the Reishi mushroom can offer.
Don’t assume that Reishi mushrooms can only benefit the seriously ill. Its immune system-supporting and anti-inflammatory properties can enhance your life as well. Additionally, Reishi mushrooms have very few side effects. Please talk with your healthcare professional first, though, as certain people should avoid the Reishi Mushroom.

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Pregnant and lactating mothers, those with low blood pressure, and those suffering from blood clotting disorders should avoid Reishi mushrooms. Also, if you are taking any medicines, talk with your health care professional first to make sure there are no drug interactions…..more here

 

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