Table 3 Traditional pharmacological efficacy of REISHI (data from an investigation by Y. Naoi, 1971 - 1981)
REISHI is known to have the following functions, in addition to the composite and synergistic effects of sluch function: blood purification, diuretics, intoxication, liver function control, intestinal function control, cardiotonics, blood pressure control, robustness, anti-cold, anti-fungi, anti-inflammation, sedatives, analgestics, etc.
|
Reaction
System |
Recorded
“Honzokomoko” |
Cases
to be improved |
|
Cerebral
nerve system (the brain) |
|
Insomnia,
mental uneasiness, neurasthenia, amnesia, sequela of cerebral
concussion, cerebral hemorrhage |
|
Sense
system (an eye, a nose, an ear, the mouth, the skin) |
|
Astigmatism,
presbyopia, cataract, glaucoma, retinal hyperemia, empyema, hearing
loss, otitis media, toothache, stomatitis, alveolar pyorrhea, pimple,
stain, rash, dry skin |
|
Respiration
system (the throat, the lungs) |
|
Headache,
tracheobronchitis, asthma, an allergic disease, pneumonia, arthritis,
pulmonary tuberculosis. |
|
Circulation
system ( the heart, blood) |
|
Headache,
cold-sensitive, shoulder tightness, a rush of blood to the
head, tinnitus, palpitation, hypertension,
hypotension, anemia, hypoleukocytemia, myocardial infarction,
arteriosclerosis, sequela of cerebral hemorrhage, heart failure,
insomnia, mental uneasiness, menstrual disorder, sterility,
gynecological disease, nephrosis, feeling of residual urine, low back
pain, neuralgia, hemorrhoids, gangrene. |
|
Digestion
/ absorption system (the stomach, the intestines) |
|
Headache,
inappetence, indigestion, swell in the abdomen, suspension of water in
the stomach, diarrhea, a loose passage, constipation, gripes,
cold-sensitive, shoulder-tightness, languor, allergic disease,
gastrointestinal weakness, gastritis, gastric ulcer, gastric
hyperacidity, enteritis, enteritis ulcer, digestive cancer, insomnia,
heart acceleration, bed wetting, climacteric, alopecia, hangover,
peritonitis, ischialgia. |
|
Digestion/absorption
system (the spleen) |
|
A sense of
fatigue, jaundice, gastritis, enteritis, hepatitis, nephritis,
sychnurio, abdominal dropsy, peritonitis. |
|
Metabolic
system (the liver, fresh, a bone) |
|
Headache,
cold-sensitive, shoulder-tightness, stain, pimple, nausea, dropsy, night
sweat, a rush of blood to the head, tinnitus, a sense of fatigue,
languor, anemia, hypertension, hypotension, congestion, palpitation,
weakness, insomnia, hysteria, neurosis, gynecological disease, low back
pain, neuralgia, menstrual pain, menstrual disorder, frequent abortion,
acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, cirhosis of the liver, abnormal
fatness, abnormal lean, effusion of blood on the brain, osteomyelitis. |
|
Metabolic
system (the, gall blader, the pancreas) |
|
Dropsy,
shoulder-tightness, palpitation, insomnia, a sense of fatigue, languor,
mental uneasiness, neurosis, hysteria, neurasthenia, cholecystitis,
gallstone, beriberi, hepatitis, effusion of blood on the braina,
arteriosclerosis, pleuritis, rheumatism, low back pain, a menopausal
disorder, epilepsy, pancreatitis, diabetes. |
|
Excretion
system (the kidney) |
|
Headache,
dropsy, cold-sensitive, urination disorder, sychnuria, hypertension,
hephritis, renal insufficiency, priostatic hypertrophy, bed wetting,
abdominal dropsy, nephrosis, neuralgia, low back pain, apareunia,
urinary stone, congestion, heart breakdown, energy reduction. |
|
Excretion
system (the bladder) |
|
Dropsy,
cold-sensitive, little urination, feeling of residual urine, low back
pain, cystitis, inflammation of urinary bladder, pulmonary, rheumatism. |
|
Reproduction
system (organs, hair) |
|
Menstrual
disorder, menstrual pain, dysuria, gynecological disease, sexual
appetite reduction, apareunia, a, alopecia. |