Plant Ganoderma lucidum | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Reishi; Ling Zhi

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
LUCIDENIC-ACID-D	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-D-2	0	Gills	not available	12.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-E	0	Gills	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-E	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-E-2	0	Fruit	not available	8.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-E-2	0	Gills	not available	12.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-F	0	Gills	not available	1.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-F	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.
LUCIDENIC-ACID-G	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.
LUCIDENIC-ACID-H	0	Fruit	not available	5.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-I	0	Fruit	not available	2.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-J	0	Fruit	not available	0.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-K	0	Fruit	not available	0.3	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-L	0	Fruit	not available	0.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDENIC-ACID-M	0	Fruit	not available	0.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDONE-A	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDONE-B	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL	18	Fruit	not available	173.7	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL	18	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.
N-HENTRIACONTANE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Emetic	1	Martindale's 28th
Emmenagogue	1	Wealth of India.
Estrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ethanolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Flatugenic	1	Martindale's 29th
FLavor	3	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucogonogenic	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.
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hepatoprotective	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypocholesterolemic	5	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypoglycemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.