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LING ZHI Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum

LING ZHI Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum

TCS newswire ; Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum: "Red Reishi Mushroom / Ganoderma lucidum / Ling Zhi
Red Reishi Mushroom / Ganoderma lucidum / Ling Zhi: 'Red Reishi Mushroom

General Information:


Even though there are several different colors of Reishi mushrooms, Red Reishi is the one that is most well known and used. For over 4000 years, Red Reishi mushrooms have been most revered in traditional Chinese medicine equaling ginseng as a premier substance for the attainment of radiant health, longevity, and spiritual attainment.

For Traditionalists, Reishi has been used as an anti-aging herb to treat many diseases and disorders. Daoist traditionalists rever this mushroom as the elixir of immortality, claiming it promotes calmness, centeredness, balance, and inner awareness and strength.

Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum contains sterols, coumarin, mannitol, polysaccharides, and triterpenoids called ganoderic acids. It is thought that ganoderic acid lowers blood pressure, LDL (low density lipoprotein cholesterol), and triglyceride levels.

The active triterpenoids also play an important role in lowering the risk of coronary artery disease and stroke.

TCS news wire : Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum

TCS newswire : Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum: JUST ANOTHER FUNGUS?

Reishi mushrooms are a polypore mushroom. Mushrooms are the fruiting body and reproductive structure of a higher order fungus organism, much like an apple is the fruit of an apple tree. The actual mushroom "tree" is a fine thread-like network called mycelium. This mycelium is for the most part subterranean, living in soil, logs and other organic litter.
Unlike green plants, which produce many of their own nutrients by photosynthesis, mushrooms primarily get their nutrients from dead organic matter or soil. Mushrooms and their mycelium are nature's original recyclers. Without them, the planet surface would be piled high with dead, decaying material and many symbiotic relationships would fail to have occured.

Mushrooms rise out of the mycelium when the right nutrients are amassed and the right environmental conditions present themselves. Mushrooms release spores at maturity. The wind spreads them and when they land on the right spot, the cycle starts over again.

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: 600-800 AD -- the era in which an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi reportedly discovered coffee after observing that his goats become very excited upon eating coffee berries.


...........it does not get any fresher than this.

Most coffee companies would like you to believe that coffee can be kept fresh for months at a time. Whether it is in a vacuum-sealed tin can, vacuumed bricks, or in coffee bags with one-way valves. What they don't tell you is the negative effects caused by how the coffee is packaged. For example, a foil bag with a one-way valve may stop the oxygen from getting into the coffee, however, these valves do nothing to stop flavor and aroma from getting out of the beans.

I like to use this example when selling coffee freshness, would you ever consider eating pastry from a can or vacuumed sealed bag? Would you purchase a pastry that has been sitting on the store shelf for more that a month or so? I have never found a person who does not enjoy fresh hot from the oven convections. This is by far the best way to enjoy your Foods and Drinks. Coffee black gold is a perishable product once it is roasted and as a green bean . Coffee stales within 2 weeks, regardless of packaging, coffee will have gassed-off much of the over 600+ volitile flavor compounds that give coffee its natural sweet, ever-so-complex tastes and aromas. Here is an interesting fact; Fresh roasted coffee directly from the roaster will produce a volume of carbon dioxide and other volatile gases within a period of 24 hours. These gasses are a natural preservative that protect the coffee from additional exposure from oxygen.

Packaged immediately from the roaster into a bag, coffee it will remain fresh up to the third week. The vacuum packaging in theory sounds great however as the gasses are removed from the coffee the negative pressure applied to the coffee is so intense, the absence of any atmospheric pressure! This incredible negative pressure forces good volitile essence to come out of the internal cellular pockets of the coffee bean causing the coffee to become void of any volatile aromas. Because coffee has less than 0.75% moisture content after it is roasted the coffee will not become stale a rapidly as bread.

So if you're not getting your coffee fresh roasted and sent the same day, then you're probably drinking it stale. No worries, if you liked stale coffee, you're simply going to love fresh.

Fresh roasted coffee is so flavorful and complex, more so than even wine, you could ruin your taste for any other coffee after the very first sip. We certainly did. That’s why at Master Coffee Roasters we only roast the world's finest Arabica beans in an unhurried, old-fashioned drum styled coffee roaster, the best way to unlock the bean's volitile maximum flavor and aroma. We make sure your orders ship the same day we receive your order. We deliver coffees to customers across the USA and Canada and the World. So you may enjoy the best, freshest coffee you've ever tasted.


What are you waiting for? Take a peek at our Coffee Planet, and then try 1 or 2 types of our coffee. We'll send 2-3 day delivery anywhere in the USA for only $4.85. Note: Purchase only what you typically use in a two-week period and then anticipate your next order. If you are buying coffee as a gift or world wide shipping, please plan ahead and let us know so we can roast your order that morning shipping it fresh that afternoon.

Reishi Ganoderma Lucidum

Progress in research on Ganoderma lucidium spore:

REISHI: ANCIENT MEDICINE IS MODERN HOPE

Western culture is beginning to use mushrooms, the small innocuous forest growth. The French prize their truffles, but even truffles and other edible fungi and mushrooms are not as highly valued or show as much potential as a species of mushrooms called Ling Zhi or Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum).

The late Hiroshi Hikino, recognized as the world's authority on the chemistry of Oriental medicinal plants, called Reishi one of "the most important elixirs in the Orient."
Relatively rare and undiscovered in the West, Reishi and other mushrooms have been revered as herbal medicines for thousands of years in Japan and China. Emperors of the great Chinese dynasties and Japanese royalty drank teas and concoctions of the mushroom for vitality and long life. The ancient Taoists were constantly searching for the elixir of eternal youth, and Reishi was believed to be among the ingredients.

In modern times, Ganoderma lucidum and its fellow mushrooms have been well-researched in Asian universities. It is currently being studied in China as a sports performance enhancer. Its long History has sparked interest in the West where it is used by herbalists to treat diverse problems such as allergies, chronic Fatigue Syndrome, diabetes, liver diseases and many immune-related diseases.

As little as 30 years ago, Reishi was rarely found in Asia. It grew in the wild, but was extremely hard to cultivate. Now with an increased knowledge of the environment it thrives in, botanists are able to set up artificial growth conditions with the correct amounts of oxygen and moisture for the spores to grow into the Reishi mushroom.