What are the medicinal values ​​of mushrooms?

Many of the medicinal ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine are the most common foods in our daily lives. These foods not only fill your stomach, but are also helpful in treating diseases to a certain extent. That’s why the term “diet therapy” came into being. Eating more of this kind of food on a regular basis is very good for your body. Winter mushroom is one of them. Today we will talk about the medicinal value of mushrooms.

Winter mushrooms are sweet and cool in nature, and have the effects of invigorating qi and strengthening the spleen, detoxifying and moisturizing dryness. Winter mushrooms contain 18 kinds of amino acids including glutamic acid. Among the 8 essential amino acids for the human body, winter mushrooms contain 7. It also contains more than 30 enzymes as well as glucose, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, iron, phosphorus, calcium and other ingredients. Modern medical research believes that mushrooms contain polysaccharides, which can improve the body's immunity and detoxification ability, inhibit the growth of cancer cells, and enhance the body's anti-cancer ability. In addition, winter mushrooms can lower blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent arteriosclerosis, strengthen the heart and protect the liver, calm the mind, promote metabolism and enhance the excretion of waste in the body. It is the best edible fungus for detoxification and strengthening the body.

Medicinal value (effects) of mushrooms:

1. Remove wrinkles, black spots, make skin smooth and improve pigmentation.

2. Anti-cancer: In the area where this mushroom is native, residents drink it every day because of their religious beliefs, and no cancer has been found so far.

3. Alleviate the body's normal response to menopause.

4. Good for bowel movements

5. Prevent shoulder pain, neck stiffness and muscle pain, arthritis.

6. Treat asthma and tracheitis. It can remove phlegm and relieve cough within 2-3 days after drinking.

7. Treat allergies.

8. Strengthen kidneys

9. Cleans the gallbladder and stomach

10. Improve resistance to common diseases

11. Lower cholesterol, prevent vascular sclerosis, and reduce gastric acid

12. Infectious diarrhea

Although winter mushrooms have great medicinal value. But all foods should not be used in excess. Just because mushrooms have good medicinal value doesn’t mean we can eat them casually. You still have to pay attention to the amount you eat, and also learn how to match the food. Only in this way can the medicinal value of the mushrooms be brought into play to its full potential, reflecting the value of the mushrooms without causing harm to the body.