"Queen Healer Mushroom"

This mushroom was traditionally used in Oriental and Eastern Folk Medicine to "Nourish the Heart and Pacify the Spirit".

INVITATIONS FOR USE:

Mix 2 grams (1/2 tsp.) in warm water or tea.

Excellent addition to soups, smoothies, raw chocolates, and more!

In Joy!

LONGFORM

Reishi Mushroom is perhaps the most beloved of all precious foods. Called Ling Zhi - "The Mushroom of Spiritual Potency" in Traditional Chinese Medicine, It holds its place as an essential ingredient in a healthy life. The Chinese have traditionally claimed that Reishi promotes calmness, centeredness, balance, inner awareness and inner strength. They have used it to improve meditative practices and to protect the body, mind, and spirit so that the adept could attain both a long and healthy life.

A "superior herb" was defined as a substance that serves to maintain life, causes no side effects by continuous use, and promotes radiant health and long life by helping to harmonize the functions of the body, mind, and spirit. Images of Reishi Mushrooms are prolific throughout ancient Chinese Culture and are joyfully presented by a wonderful cast of revered legendary characters, Taoist Sages and Buddhist Bodhisattvas.

Reishi is one of the most potent adaptogens available to modern society. Adaptogens are those herbs and substances that increase the body’s resistance to stress and help it overcome all health challenges more quickly. Adaptogens are defined as substances which positively support the body to reduce or increase the body's actions as appropriate. Reishi is believed by Japanese and Chinese researchers to have a regulatory effect on the immune system, raising immune function in cases of immunodeficiency and reducing the excesses associated with auto-immune conditions.

Reishi is the most studied natural substance on earth and science continues to show up remarkable functions its active ingredients produce. Some pharmacological effects of Reishi extracts in vivo and in vitro include:

(for references see Hobbs, 1995)

• Analgesic

• Anti-allergic activity

• Bronchitis-preventative effect, inducing regeneration of bronchial epithelium

• Anti-inflammatory

• Antibacterial, against Staphylococci, Streptococci, and Bacillus pneumoniae

(perhaps due to increased immune system activity)

• Antioxidant, by eliminating hydroxyl free radicals

• Antitumor activity

• Antiviral effect, by inducing interferon production

• Lowers blood pressure

• Enhances bone marrow nucleated cell proliferation

• Cardiotonic action, lowering serum cholesterol levels with no effect on triglycerides, enhancing myocardial metabolism of hypoxic animals, and improving coronary artery hemodynamics

• Central depressant and peripheral anticholinergic actions on the autonomic nervous system reduce the effects of caffeine and relax muscles

• Enhanced natural killer cell (NK) activity in vitro in mice

• Expectorant and antitussive properties demonstrated in mice studies

• General immunopotentiation

• Anti-HIV activity in vitro and in vivo

• Improved adrenocortical function

• Increased production of Interleukin-1 by murine peritoneal macrophages in vitro

• Increased production of Interleukin-2 by murine splenocytes in vitro

Key active constituents:

• Beta and hetero-Beta-glucans (antitumor, immunostimulating )

• Ling Zhi-8 protein (anti-allergenic, immuno-modulating)

• Ganodermic acids triterpenes (anti-allergenic agents, cholesterol, and blood

pressure reducing)

"It may prove to be the greatest prevention against cancer because it helps us to protect

ourselves by our own power." Dr. Gabriel Cousens

Reishi is a very potent immune system and longevity tonic. Traditionally used to “nourish the heart and pacify the spirit” it has also been found to have numerous other health benefits, including:

• Immune-strengthening

• Stress-relieving

• Liver protective

• Regarded as one of the most potent Shen tonics

• Improves circulation

• Protective against radiation, free radicals, and other environmental stressors

• Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-fatigue, and anti-stress

Reishi has been shown in several studies to lower cholesterol levels, helping to prevent atherosclerotic changes in the blood vessel walls (reported in Huang, 1999).

SunPotion uses a wonderful full-spectrum Reishi product. Cultivated under strict, Organic protocols in the USA, Sun Potion Reishi uses a blend of different Reishi species to create a full-spectrum mycoproduct with all the naturally occurring anti-bacterial, anti-viral, immune modulating, and blood pressure regulating properties that Reishi has been known for throughout its long history.

Sun Potion Reishi Mushroom Powder is excellent consumed in tea either on its own or blended with other herbs such as Cordyceps. In the Sun Potion family, a tea of Reishi and other blood building foods such as He Shou Wu is considered the perfect nightcap to help calm the spirit and invest in a bright tomorrow.