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Plant Ganoderma lucidum

Common Names
Reishi; Ling Zhi
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GANODERAN-C 0 Fruit not available 1.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERENIC-ACID-A 0 Fruit not available 145.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERENIC-ACID-B 0 Fruit not available 50.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERENIC-ACID-C 0 Fruit not available 25.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERENIC-ACID-D 0 Fruit not available 75.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERENIC-ACID-E 0 Fruit not available 0.4 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-A 0 Fruit 389.5 2630.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-A 0 Gills not available 170.3 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-A 0 Pileus not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-A-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit not available 578.9 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-B 0 Fruit 5.2 132.7 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-B 0 Gills not available 48.8 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-B 0 Pileus not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-B-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit not available 86.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-C 0 Fruit 11.0 750.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-C-1 0 Gills not available 65.2 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-C-2 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-C-2 0 Gills not available 61.7 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIC-ACID-D 0 Fruit 15.3 265.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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.