Principaux bienfaits pour la santé
• Activation et modulation immunitaires profondes (allergies, infections, cancer)
• Aide à gérer le stress
• Santé cardiovasculaire (hypotenseur, améliore le profil lipidique, oxygène le sang)
• Métabolisme glycémique
• Antioxydant
• Effets hépatoprotecteurs
Le reishi est un champignon polypore qui pousse à l’état sauvage sur les souches et les billes de bois en décomposition. Il est lustré et possède une belle couleur rouge-jaunâtre. Tout comme la pomme est le fruit du pommier, le reishi rouge est le corps fructifère du champignon. « L’arbre » est constitué d’un vaste réseau de mycélium (ou « racines ») qui s’étend sous terre et peut s’étirer sur plusieurs kilomètres.
Historic Use
Reishi is a hard and bitter fungi that has been used for more than two thousand years in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which makes it one of the oldest medicinal mushrooms known to man. 5 Reishi is called Ling Zhi, which means “spirit plant”. Some of the traditional uses include: tonifying effects, enhancement of vital energy, strengthening of cardiac activity, memory enhancement, and antiaging effects. 6 Although in western cultures we have had an overall fear of fungi, mushrooms have long held a special place in the Eastern materia medica. In recent years, medicinal mushrooms are increasingly being used in cancer treatments to counteract the toxic effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. 7
Our Process
Reishi grows wild in the Olympic rain forest. A small sample is eco-harvested and then grown on organic brown rice in a controlled environment. After 4 generations it is certified organic and tested free of over 474 environmental contaminants. The budding mushroom (primordia) is harvested, freeze-dried for superior nutrient preservation, and then heat-treated to activate a number of the medicinal compounds and make them more bioavailable
Provenance
Nord-ouest de la côte du Pacifique des États-Unis (État de Washington), forêt pluviale Olympic
References
J. Stansbury, Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals, Vol 2, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018, 28.
D. R. Yance, Adaptogens in Medical Herbalism, Healing Arts Press, 2013, 538-43
Y. Jianzhe, M. Xiaolan, M. Qiming, et al. Icons of Medicinal Fungi from China (Beijing: Science Press, 1987); and Hong-Yen Shu, Oriental Materia Medica: A Concise Guide )Palos Verdes, Calif.: Oriental Healing Arts Press, 1986), 640-41.
Gui-lin Xiao et al. Clinical Observation on Treatment of Russula subnigricans Poisoning Patients by Ganoderma lucidum Decoction, Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, 23, No 4 (2003): 278-280
Kenneth Jones, Reishi: Ancient Herb for Modern Times (Issaquah, Wash.: Sylvan Press, 1992), 6.
S. Wachtel-Galor, J. Yuen.J.A. Buswell, and I. F. F. Benzie, “Ganoderma lucidum ILingzhi or Reishi) a medicinal mushroom.”
Jones, Reishi; Terry Willard, Reishi Mushroom: Herb of Spiritual Potency and Wonder (Issaquah, Wash.: Sylvan Press, 1990), 11.
