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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GANODERIC-ACID-D | 0 | Gills | not available | 12.1 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-E | 0 | Fruit | 27.5 | 161.6 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-E | 0 | Gills | not available | 18.8 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-F | 0 | Fruit | 60.1 | 165.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-F | 0 | Gills | not available | 21.9 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-G | 0 | Fruit | not available | 80.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-G | 0 | Gills | not available | 14.1 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-H | 0 | Fruit | not available | 1.9 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-H | 0 | Gills | 46.9 | 47.7 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-H | 0 | Pileus | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-I | 0 | Gills | not available | 3.1 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-J | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-K | 0 | Fruit | not available | 0.3 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-K | 0 | Gills | not available | 0.9 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-M | 0 | Fruit | not available | 0.3 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-M-A | 0 | Mycelium | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-M-B | 0 | Mycelium | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-M-C | 0 | Mycelium | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-M-D | 0 | Mycelium | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GANODERIC-ACID-M-E | 0 | Mycelium | not available | not available | not available | 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. |