He Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) It is the fungus on everyone's lips. Just a few days ago, the presenter of ‘Hormiguero 3.0’, Pablo Motos, and the writer Fernando Sánchez Dragó They acknowledged to take Reishi regularly. In his own words, Motos discovered it thanks to the actor Imanol Arias And, today, the usual consumption of this fungus "has taken away" the chronic rhinitis he suffered.
During the interview, Sánchez Dragó recalled that in ancient China only the emperor and his family could enjoy the ‘elixir of life’, which they consumed in infusions. With this preparation, according to Sánchez Dragó, "only 13% of the active principles of the fungus were used."
Currently, thanks to its ecological cultivation and advances in biotechnology, Reishi's consumption has extended to Europe and America, where it is already used as a new therapeutic complement for daily use.
Scientific advances have also optimized the use of their active ingredients. In this sense, it is worth noting the obtaining of extracts, high concentrates of bioactive compounds whose action is fifteen times higher than that of the dust of this fungus and, of course, to that of infusions with Reishi.
The high concentration of extracts has derived in the majority of published scientific studies take them as a substance chosen to demonstrate their activity in certain pathologies or health problems.