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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Ganoderma lucidum

Common Names
Reishi; Ling Zhi
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CHOLINE 20 Fruit *
CHRYSOPHANIC-ACID 6 Fruit *
CHRYSOPHANIC-ACID-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
CYCLOOCTASULFUR 0 Tissue Culture *
ENDOPOLYGALACTURONASE 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ERGOSTA-4-6-8(14)-22-TETRAEN-3-ONE 0 Fruit *
ERGOSTA-4-7-22-TRIENE-3-6-DIONE 0 Mycelium 5.2 *
ERGOSTA-7-22-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Fruit *
ERGOSTA-7-22-DIEN-3-BETA-OL-LINOLEATE 0 Fruit *
ERGOSTA-7-22-DIENE-2-BETA-3-ALPHA-9-ALPHA-TRIOL 0 Fruit *
ERGOSTA-7-22-DIENE-3-BETA-5-ALPHA-6-BETA-TRIOL 0 Fruit *
ERGOSTA-7-9-22-TRIENE-3-BETA-5-ALPHA-6-ALPHA-TRIOL 0 Fruit *
ERGOSTEROL 5 Fruit 1168.4 *
ERGOSTEROL 5 Plant 3000.0 4000.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ERGOSTEROL-PALMITATE 0 Fruit *
GANODERAL-A 0 Fruit *
GANODERAN-A 0 Fruit *
GANODERAN-A 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GANODERAN-B 0 Fruit 2.5 *
GANODERAN-B 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiflu 1 *
Antigastritic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiglaucomic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigranular 1 *
Antihepatotoxic 1 *
Antihistaminic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihomocysteine 1 *
Antihomocystinuric 1 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 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.
Antiinflammatory 5 *
Antiinsomniac 1 *
Antileukemic 1 *
Antileukotriene-D4 2 *
Antilipolytic 1 *
Antilymphomic 1 *
Antimanic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiMS 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.