Which mushrooms have useful properties for chronic bronchitis?
The fungi selected for the treatment of bronchitis must have anti-inflammatory, lung tissue regenerating, bronchodilatory and inhibiting excessive mucus production.
Cordyceps
Reduces inflammation, promotes immune response and prevents aging of bronchial cells
In a study in asthmatic patients, the use of Cordyceps as an adjuvant to pharmacological treatment shows a reduction in inflammation of the respiratory tract. Also, there is evidence of the positive effect of Cordyceps on the balance of the immune response through the respiratory epithelium.
These results explain the traditional use of Cordyceps in the treatment of respiratory diseases such as asthma and COPD.
Preventively, Cordyceps can also decrease the aging of bronchial cells caused by exposure to cigarette smoke.
Reishi
Reduces inflammation, inhibits excessive mucus production and bronchoconstriction
It is also possible to reduce the inflammatory response thanks to the triterpenoids present in the Reishi extract. The anti-inflammatory activity of Reishi is comparable to the effects of some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as indomethacin or hydrocortisone. The treatment based on Reishi extract plays an essential role in the modulation of inflammatory responses, preventing its chronification.
Reishi also inhibits bronchoconstriction and excessive mucus production.
Polyporus
Draining and mucolytic capacity
Polyporus is a very interesting fungus for this pathology due to its tropism (lung), used in Traditional Chinese Medicine in the pulmonary processes where there is an excess of moisture or mucus, it also helps eliminate toxins from the body and has anti-inflammatory activity.