Ganoderma lucidum, known in English as Reishi and as Lingzhi in classical tradition, is a glossy red-brown kidney-shaped shelf fungus that grows on hardwood. The red reishi form is the one recorded in the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing roughly two thousand years ago, and it was used across classical Chinese, Japanese and Korean practice for what practitioners described as longevity. It is called mannentake in Japan and yeongji in Korea.
Triterpenes, the compound class for which Ganoderma lucidum is best known, were first characterised by Kubota and colleagues in 1982. Ganoderic acids sit within that class. Our Reishi is dual-extracted at a 15:1 ratio from the whole fruiting body, never mycelium grown on grain. Triterpenes ≥ 6.13 percent, polysaccharides ≥ 25.11 percent, disclosed per batch. Lab-tested in India per batch.
Traditionally taken in the evening as a tea or stirred into warm milk.
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