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	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
GANODERIOL-H	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIOL-H	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	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERIOL-I	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	Fruit	not available	130.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC	Mycelium	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC-GL-1	Fruit	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC-GL-2	Fruit	not available	700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-ANTIBIOTIC-GL-3	Fruit	not available	1900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-COMPOUND-C-6	Gills	not available	1.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-HETEROGLYCAN	Fruit	not available	551.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-POLYSACCHARIDE-FRACTION-A-H	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-TRITERPENE-17-A	Gills	not available	1.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-TRITERPENE-18-A	Gills	not available	1.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-TRITERPENE-5-A	Gills	not available	3.9	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-LUCIDUM-TRITERPENE-6-A	Gills	not available	0.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-POLYSACCHARIDE-BN-3-A-C	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMA-PROTEIN-LING-ZHI-8	Mycelium	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANODERMADIOL	Fruit	not available	4.1	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.