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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
GANODERIOL-H 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIOL-H 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.
GANODERIOL-I 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIOL-I 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.
GANODERMA-ACIDIC-POLYSACCHARIDE-GL-A 0 Fruit not available 130.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC 0 Mycelium not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC-GL-1 0 Fruit not available 500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC-GL-2 0 Fruit not available 700.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC-GL-3 0 Fruit not available 1900.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-COMPOUND-C-6 0 Gills not available 1.6 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-HETEROGLYCAN 0 Fruit not available 551.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-POLYSACCHARIDE-FRACTION-A-H 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-TRITERPENE-17-A 0 Gills not available 1.6 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-TRITERPENE-18-A 0 Gills not available 1.2 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-TRITERPENE-5-A 0 Gills not available 3.9 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-TRITERPENE-6-A 0 Gills not available 0.8 not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-POLYSACCHARIDE-BN-3-A-C 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-PROTEIN-LING-ZHI-8 0 Mycelium not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMADIOL 0 Fruit not available 4.1 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
Antiflu 1 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihomocysteine 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinsomniac 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
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.