Reishi Tincture
Reishi Mushroom, Ganoderma Reishi or Ling Zhi, is also known as The Mushroom of Immortality. Medicinal mushrooms and mushroom extracts have long been known for their beneficial healing properties, their usage dating back thousands of years in ancient Chinese Medicine. Ganoderma Lucidum, or Reishi mushrooms, were used in ancient Chinese medicine for a variety of powerful healing purposes, treating many systems in the body as an adaptagenic tonic meaning they treat the body where healing is needed.
Reishi is known to be powerfully anti-oxidant and liver-protective, helping to slow the processes of aging, thus why they are referred to as the “mushroom of immortality”. Reishi is also known as the divine fungus and the immortality plant, legendary for its medicinal benefits and spiritual or sacred properties. There are wide ranging benefits to the use of medicinal mushrooms, Reishi and Chaga being two very well-studied cancer fighting mushrooms.
Reishi mushrooms have more than 400 different nutrients. This includes beta-glucans and triterpenoids, compounds that can lower blood sugar and blood pressure levels, reducing your diabetes and heart disease risk.
Studies show the mushrooms also have high antioxidant activity, which protects your body from cell damage that can increase your risk of many chronic diseases.
Medicinal mushrooms are immune enhancing, immune-modulating, anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic. This means that they build and balance the immune system.
Reishi mushrooms are used for reducing cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and chronic degenerative conditions of the cardiovascular system Used for treatment of pancreatic condtions such as blood sugar and diabetic conditions, liver conditions, bile flow and good colon health, these powerful mushrooms also have a neuroprotective quality, meaning they protect the brain from toxins and degenerative conditions.
One of the most valuable uses for the medicinal mushrooms is that they are used to counteract the side effects of chemotherapy, such as nausea, and detoxify the toxic drugs and the breakdown of cancer itself.
Studies have shown that the therapeutic agents in the mushrooms are anti-carcinogenic, with potent antitumor activity. If you are suffering from the side effects of chemotherapy or radiation, this is a simple and effective remedy to help you get through the treatment.
Studies show that reishi mushrooms may reduce the severity of chronic fatigue. This effect may be due to the mushrooms’ ability to boost the immune system and fight free radical damage. Reishi mushrooms can also help regulate the body’s testosterone levels, which promotes good energy levels.Reishi mushrooms may cause complications for some people. Consider the following before adding them to your diet:
May Increase Bleeding
Reishi mushrooms may increase the risk of bleeding in people taking blood thinners like warfarin. Always check with your doctor before taking tinctures or any herbal remedies.
Because reishi mushrooms can boost the immune system response, they may worsen symptoms in people taking immunosuppressant medications to treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, or psoriasis.
Reishi mushrooms may decrease blood sugar, so taking them alongside blood sugar medication to treat diabetes may cause your blood sugar to go too low.
Low Blood Pressure
Studies show mixed results, but reishi mushrooms may lower blood pressure in some people. If you have low blood pressure, or use medication to lower your blood pressure, talk to your doctor before taking reishi mushrooms.
Pregnancy
There is not enough information to determine if reishi mushrooms are safe for pregnant or breastfeeding women.
https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-reishi-mushrooms#2
Sue harvests the Reishi in the Pennsylvania Wilds northern forests and creates a double extraction tincture with grain alcohol and pure mountain spring water.
