Hericium (scientific name: Hericium erinaceus), shape like a monkey's head, hence the name. Spores colorless, smooth surface, spherical or substantially spherical, a size of about 6.5-7.5um × 5 × 5.5um. Hyphae thin cell walls, with the diaphragm, a lock-like joint. Mycelium diameter 10-20um. Are four dishes (hedgehog, bear's paw, sea cucumber, shark fin) one.
Nutritional Analysis
1. Hericium is a high protein, low fat, rich in an excellent food minerals and vitamins;
2. Hericium containing unsaturated fatty acids, can reduce blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels, regulate blood lipids, help blood circulation, is the ideal food for cardiovascular patients;
3. Hericium containing polysaccharides, polypeptides and fatty substances, can inhibit the synthesis of genetic material in cancer cells, thereby preventing and treating cancer and other gastrointestinal malignancies;
4. Hericium contains a variety of amino acids and rich in polysaccharides, can help digestion, remarkable efficacy of gastritis, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and other gastrointestinal diseases;
5. Hericium body with improved immune function, can delay aging.
Therapeutic value
1. herbs, nature, sweet. Lee five internal organs, helps digestion; has the stomach, tonic, cancer, kidney essence of the effect; attending eat less loose stools, stomach and duodenal ulcers, neurasthenia, esophagus, stomach, dizziness, impotence and other diseases. Frail elderly who eat Hericium, nourishing physical role.
2. Composition: containing volatile oils, proteins, polysaccharides, amino acids and other ingredients. Inhibition of mouse sarcoma 180; on Ehrlich ascites tumor cells in vitro inhibition, can inhibit the deoxy nucleic acid synthesis, prevent thymine and uracil nucleotide deoxyribonucleosides incorporation, its intensity and its concentration related.
3. Uses: for the weak stomach, indigestion. Modern and for neurasthenia; stomach and duodenal ulcers, chronic gastritis; esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, colon cancer and other gastrointestinal tumors.