MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS AND CHAGA

 

In this article I will concentrate on the topic of medicinal mushrooms & Chaga and I’ll try to show you why Chaga is better than all other medicinal mushrooms and why it is called the king of Adaptogenic Herbs, The Silver Bullet of Nature, The Mushroom of Immortality and the King of Herbs. But before moving on to the topic of medicinal mushrooms & Chaga, let me just give you a list of medicinal mushrooms that boast of good numbers of health benefits.

Some of the more famous of the medicinal mushrooms are tremella, trametes versicolor, suilus luteus, shiitake, Reishi, pycnoporus sanguineus, poria obligua, morchella esculenta, Maitake, Lingzhi, lenzites betulina, lentinula edodes, gandoderma, calvatia, armillaria mellea etc.

Health benefits of Reishi

This Japanese Adaptogenic herb is known as Lingzhi in Chinese and roughly translates into spiritual potency. Some of the numerous health benefits of Reishi include:

Reishi can be used to effectively treat asthma, it can minimize your blood pressure, restore a sick body’s natural balance, improve your immune system, assist in the proper functioning of all the organs in the body, restore the natural state of the body.

It can also provide rich quantities of phosphorous and calcium, essential vitamins and minerals like iron, chitin, zinc etc to the body. Reishi can support a healthy nerve function, protect you against bacterial diseases, preserve, promote and regenerate liver health, treat sleep disorders and insomnia as well as treat anxiety disorders.

Health benefits of Shiitake mushrooms

Shiitake has similar health benefits to Reishi Lingzhi. It lowers high blood pressure, can be used to treat hypertension, it can inhibit platelet aggregation and prevent blood thrombosis, stimulate the immune system, activate specific varieties of proteins and cells which can combat cancer, lower your blood cholesterol levels and supply your body with vitamin C, dietary fiber, proteins, iron and selenium.

Maitake health benefits

Beta glucan found in this “dancing mushroom” Maitake can help the body fight against cancer, it can lower blood sugar levels and can be used to treat diabetes; it can boost the immune system. Maitake also has weight loss, anti inflammatory, HIV preventing, cholesterol reducing, high BP reducing, anti bacterial, antiviral , antitumorigenic, anti infective and anti fungal properties that can also treat arthritis, liver troubles, hepatitis and can be used as a diagnostic agent.

Medicinal mushrooms & Chaga health benefits

Chaga possesses all these health benefits as found in other medicinal mushrooms and plenty more and it suffuses your body with innumerable kinds of vitamins, minerals, B complexes and iron and other nutrients that you wont find in any other medicinal mushroom, that too in quantities unmatched by other medicinal mushrooms.

Chaga can fight against most types of cancer like breast, liver, stomach, cervical, uterine, ovarian cancer etc, it can kill off tumors, cure kidney stones and sand and kidney troubles, liver troubles, mild fever, cold and cough, improve your immune system, detoxify your body, increase your longevity, fight environmental damage from free radicals because it is the richest source of super antioxidants and SODs on earth along with the highest score of ORAC.

Chaga also has anti-inflammatory, antitumorigenic, anti cancer, anti ageing, anti obesity, anti diabetic, anti viral, anti oxidation properties that also aids in digestion, cures stomach inflammations, bowel problems, constipation, ulcers, gastritis, erectile dysfunction, sleep disorders, reduces blood pressure and bad cholesterol, treats HIV and influenza, arthritis, increases your sex drive and at times cures infertility. Thus when you consider medicinal mushrooms & Chaga, I will always give thumbs up to Chaga over other medicinal mushrooms.