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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Antimutagenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimyoatrophic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antinephritic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antinociceptive | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiophidic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363. |
| Antioxidant | 3 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antiprogestational | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antiprostaglandin | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostatadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiprostatitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipyretic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Antiradicular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiReye's | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antispasmodic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antisteatotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitachycardic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antitumor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (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. |
| Antitumor (Cervix) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Lung) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |