Ganoderma Lucidum Advantages And Side Effects

Ganoderma Lucidum is commonly known as reish. As a traditional Chinese medicine, reish is a hard mushroom with a bitter taste mainly used to enhance better health and enhancing longevity ultimate body health. The mushroom is intended to be used as medicine and not for cooking. The following are various medicinal mushrooms benefits that are associated with reish;

• Fighting and healing various allergies

• Providing a solution to various heart and cancer diseases

• Helps to heal diabetes and lung problems

• Used as medicine to liver diseases

• Used during chemotherapy and radiotherapy processes to reduce pain

Advantages Of Ganoderma Lucidum

Medical practitioners recommend and prescribe the use of Ganoderma Lucidum due to its beneficial effects on the users. The most common advantages of using reish include;

• Boosting body immunity- It is believed that use of reish enhances and supports the body immune system hence increasing the ability to resist various diseases and illness.

• Blood sugar balance- Reish contains polysaccharides known as Ganoderma A, B, C that gives it blood-sugar lowering effect. It works by enhancing the plasma insulin levels hence increasing the liver glucose metabolism and utilization of glucose in the body.

• Oxygenation- the other unique advantage of reish is its ability to oxygenate the blood especially in high altitude places resulting in prevention of various diseases and illness attributed to these areas.

Side Effects Of Reish

However, besides the many uses and advantages of reish it has various side effects and disadvantages. However, side effects vary from one user to another based on the health conditions. The side effects include;

• Dryness of the mouth and throat

• Some individuals may experience nose bleeding and to the worst extent of gastric bleeding effects

• Use of excess reish may lead cases of low blood pressure

• Stomach upset leading to diarrhea and blood stool

Ganoderma coffee has become very popular with several companies now adding this mushroom. Some people cannot drink ganoderma coffee.

When you decide to use Ganoderma Lucidum, it is recommended that you seek professional medical consultation to ensure that you get its advantages and avoid the various side effects. Especially when one is under medication or in cases of pregnant women, use of reish is not advised unless when medically prescribed.