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Common Names
Reishi; Ling Zhi
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-EPI-5'-DEOXY-5'-METHYL-SULFINYLADENOSINE | 0 | Fruit | not available | 0.1 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 24-ETHYL-CHOLESTAN-3-BETA-OL | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 24-METHYL-CHOLESTA-7-22-DIEN-3-BETA-OL | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 24-METHYL-CHOLESTA-7-22-DIEN-3-BETA-OL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| 24-METHYL-LATHOSTEROL | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 3-BETA-5-ALPHA-6-ALPHA-TRIOL-ERGOSTA-7-22-DIENE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 5'-DEOXY-5'-METHYL-SULFINYLADENOSINE | 0 | Fruit | not available | 0.2 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 5-ALPHA-8-ALPHA-EPIDIOXY-24-EPSILON-METHYL-CHOLESTA-6-22-DIEN-3-BETA-OL | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 5-ALPHA-8-ALPHA-EPIDIOXY-ERGOSTA-6-9(11)-22-TRIEN-3-BETA-OL | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 7-EPI-GANODERIC-ACID | 0 | Fruit | not available | 3.4 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 7-O-METHYL-GANODERIC-ACID-O | 0 | Mycelium | not available | 5.2 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ADENOSINE | 28 | Fruit | not available | 1.5 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| AMYLASE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| BEHENIC-ACID | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BEHENIC-ACID | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| BETAINE | 14 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETAINE | 14 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| CELLULASE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiarthritic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Antibacterial | 1 | Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155. |
| Anticancer (Breast) | 1 | Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103. |
| Anticancer (Cervix) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Lung) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antichoreic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Anticirrhotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticoronary | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Anticystinuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antidementia | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antidiabetic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antidiuretic | 1 | LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp. |
| Antidyskinetic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antieczemic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Antiedemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiendotoxic | 1 | Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006. |
| Antiestrogenic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antifeedant | 1 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Antifertility | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antifibrinolytic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53. |