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Hericium Erinaceus Extract Powder

2016-01-25

Hericium erinaceus (also called Lion's Mane Mushroom, Bearded Tooth Mushroom, Satyr's Beard, Bearded Hedgehog Mushroom, pom pom mushroom, or Bearded Tooth Fungus) is an edible and medicinal mushroom belonging to the tooth fungus group. Inside fungus vegetables, hericium erinaceus is relatively rare one. It is a rare mushroom,included in one of the eight delicacies. Hericium erinaceus has good use effect, which combined nutrition and medicinal.

Hericium erinaceus extract powder is manufactured from hericium erinaceus which is a brown yellow powder. The regular specifications are 20%-40%polysaccharides.

Hericium erinaceus contains a number of polysaccharides, such as B-glucan, heteroglucans, heteroxylans, as several cyanthane derivative triterpenes known as hericenone and erinacine.These latter compounds, found in the fruitbody and mycelium respectively, are considered to be responsible for the neuroregenerative effects of this species.

Hericium erinaceus has been a traditional Chinese medicine for a long history. Nowadays, hericium erinaceus extract powder is becoming more and more populer. A study showed some compounds in the Hericium erinaceus extract powder, like threitol, D-arabinitol, and palmitic acid, may have antioxidant effects, regulate blood lipid levels and reduce blood glucose levels. Studies have indicated that Hericium erinaceus extract powder can be used in the treatment of gastric ulcers and esophageal carcinoma. And there is a study on rats demonstrates the mushroom's wound healing capacities.

Since the 1970s, modern medicine have proved hericium have good medicinal value, clinical application showed that hericium can be used to treat indigestion, gastric ulcer, gastric inflammation, stomach pain, bloating, and neurasthenia and other diseases. If neurasthenia patients with mild, edible hericium erinaceus extract powder may be a better adjuvant therapy.