By Healthsituation.com

When you are sealed you start to take care of the health of your body. One thing you can do to prevent and cure a variety of ailments is to take a little reishi mushroom, an Asian mushroom with incredible health benefits.

The University of Haifa in Israel reported on Friday December 14 2007 that the reishi mushroom can be used to fight prostate cancer. They found that the reishi mushroom “attacks the cancer cells directly.”

The reishi mushroom, Ganoderma Lucidum, was a rarity found only in the wild until only the last quarter of a century when the Japanese have been able to cultivate them as a crop.

The University of Haifa says the reishi mushroom gives hope that a medication will be developed out of it that could fight prostate cancer. Fighting cancer is just one in a long list of health benefits the mushroom offers.

Called Ling Zhi in China, the reishi mushroom has been an important medicinal plant for the Asians for millennia. In the wild it grows upon rotting plum trees and only occasionally on some oak too.

Now it has been cultivated and extensive tests have been done on it to find out just how valid all its numerous health claims are. And many of the benefits are a ceratainty.

The reishi mushroom is an adaptogen, meaning it helps the body fight stressors like fatigue, anxiety, or trauma. It is never toxic to someone who eats it. It is non-specific meaning it protects against multiple stressors.

And as an adaptogen it is also normalizing, meaning it normalizes the physiology of the body in spite of the “norms” the stressor is trying to introduce. And it lowers anything hyperfunctioning in the body while increasing anything hypofunctioning.

The reishi mushroom is considered an effective prevention, not just a cure for disease, and is said to have the ability to prevent almost all of the most common diseases, like heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis as well as cancer.

LDL is the bad cholesterol in your body, building up on the walls of your arteries. It is implicated in heart disease and has caused many heart attacks. The reishi mushroom is said to lower your LDL, or bad cholesterol.

The reishi mushroom is also said to cure and prevent pain from headaches and stomach aches, and also be useful in curing and preventing back pain. If pain is caused by stress, as mentioned earlier it eliminates stress too.

It also is effective in treating asthma and influenza and the common cold. It will eliminate the coughing that is the symptom and even work on the underlying illness.

It works for insomnia, and while you are getting your body sleep, it helps treat your skin and cures and prevents hair loss too. The Asians used it for thousands of years also to treat liver problems.

When you are sealed you begin to take care of the health of your body. And you learn about these natural (or indeed spiritual) wonders of God’s creation. He has given you just what you need to prevent and cure most illness.

When you are sealed God will show you that it is His Will to help you fight disease and give you a longer and better Life. And it is always His Will to give you another chance when you receive the Seal.

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By Gille Coulombe from Buzzle.com

Reishi mushrooms are capable, according to the scientific community, of resolving a broad spectrum of illnesses by affecting a number of organ systems. Tremendous potential exists for any individual wishing to elevate their health status through the addition of dietary supplementation with Reishi mushrooms. Reishi mushrooms have a history going back to over 4000 years, when they were considered to be a superior herb that improved health, resistance, longevity, energy and memory. The reishi mushroom, called the ganoderma lucidum by Asian rulers, was seek out by the members of their court .This herb of longevity was named Reishi by the Japanese and, in China and Korea, it is known as Ling Chu, meaning the mushrooms of immortality. The Chinese thought of them as the elixir of life. The Romans considered Reishi mushrooms as the food of the Gods. The benefits of Reishi mushrooms have been recorded throughout time as far back as 206 B.C. Reishi was associated with happiness, good health and longevity. Reishi was entrenched in ancient Chinese culture as shown in many fairy tales. Many Oriental civilizations have realized the amazing health inducing benefits associated with certain mushrooms and yet in Western civilization they are relatively unknown.

Therapeutic properties of Reishi

The scientific community did not start investigate the therapeutic properties of mushrooms until the early 1970s. There was not enough standardized Reishi to conduct experimental evaluation of the properties before researchers at Kyoto University initiated controlled cultivation of the mushroom. An interesting discovery occurred when the researchers found that the six colour variations of Reishi were one species. It was found out that all six colours could be grown from the same gene. It was found that Reishi mushrooms possess bio-active, anti-tumour and immune system stimulating abilities including anti-allergic, anticancer and antiviral value. As an adaptogenic agent Reishi mushrooms are capable of resolving a broad spectrum of illnesses by affecting a number of organ systems.

Beneficial health effects of Reishi

After analyzing the bio-active components of Reishi, the researchers concluded that it would be difficult to find a more complete or potent immune enhancing supplement. In fact, reishi mushroom has the ability to restore the efficacy of the cytokine system and greatly enhances NK (Natural Killer) cell activity. Case studies have found it to enable the immune system to deal favorably with a broad range of autoimmune disorders when used in conjunction with dietary and detoxification modifications. Reishi has also shown to be beneficial with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), improving circulation, decreasing serum cholesterol, decreasing serum glucose (anti-diabetic) and relieving the nausea of cancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy. As mentioned above, reishi mushrooms have the ability to stimulate natural killer cells, to improve immune function and to combat viral infection.

According to Wasser and Weis, in a paper published in 1999, the Reishi mushroom has been documented to possess many medical properties. Among those are, anti-inflammatory, antitumour, antiviral, antibacterial, blood pressure regulation, protection of the liver, chronic bronchitis etc.
It is obvious that tremendous potential exists for any individual wishing to elevate their health status through the addition of dietary supplementation with Reishi mushrooms Thousands of researches on Reishi mushrooms and plenty of authors have corroborated their findings.The future looms bright for advances in health with the use of Reishi supplementation. The diverse positive effects of Reishi are still being researched. For example, in a recent paper by Dr. H. Fujiwara, it was concluded that stamina for running distance and endurance was significantly increased by the use of ganoderma extracts.
Reishi can contribute to keep the immune system intact and to avoid all kind of human illnesses and diseases.

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