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1. What is Ganoderma lucidum, reishi, and lingzhi? |
2. What is the major active constituents of
Reishi? |
| 3. Reishi's main purpose |
4. Where can the reishi be found? |
5. Which one is the best, wild or cultivated? |
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6. What type of people is suitable to eat Reishi? |
| 7. Should people start eating
Reishi only after health problems occur? |
| 8. How long does it take to see
the effects of Reishi? |
| 9. What is the difference between
capsule Reishi essence and making soup out of Reishi mushroom? |
10. I am currently undergoing chemotherapy,
am I OK to take reishi extract? |
11. For a patient who is undergoing chemotherapy,
what is the benefits of taking reishi extract? |
| 12. When is the best time to
take the daily dose of reishi? |
| 13. Is it necessary to take the
reishi with meals? |
| 14. What kind of Reishi does
G-Way use? |
| 15. Is G-WAY reishi essence made
of grounded reishi powder? |
| 16. Should I take Reishi during pregnancy or breastfeeding? |
| 17. Why continued use of Reishi for more than 3 to 6 months may lead to dizziness, dry mouth, nose bleeds, and upset stomach? |
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| 1. What is Ganoderma lucidum,
reishi, and lingzhi? |
| All of the above names describe the same species
of fungi. Ganoderma lucidum (Latin name), reishi (Japanese name),
or lingzhi (Chinese name) is a precious medicinal fungi that have
long history of positive medicinal uses in China. People used to boil
them and drink the essence water. Its functions on maintaining health,
preventing illness, and fighting chronic health problems pass from
one generation to the next generation. With more scientific technology
being invented, all these amazing indications have been confirmed
and approved. |
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| 2. What is the major active
constituents of Reishi? |
Reishi composed of many unique active elements
which have different type of action:
- Polysaccharides: anti-tumor; immunoactive
- Triterpenes: anti-allergic (histamine release-inhibiting);
anti-hypertensive; anti-cholesterol (synthesis inhibitor)
- Reishi Active Elements (GL-B): promotes the lymphocytes
responses and function; immunoactive
- Germanium: neutralizes free radicals; increase
oxygen carrying capacity of hemoglobin; improve metabolism; delay
cell aging process
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| 3. Reishi's main purpose |
| Reishi has always been treasured for its medicinal
value over the past years, medical researchers have conducted a lot
of clinical analyses and discovered that the components of Reishi
can help strengthen the immune system, improve circulation and metabolism,
retard degeneration and aging and balancing out hormones. Reishi also
have positive effects inhibiting abnormal growth of body cells and
cancer and have very promising effects on various chronic diseases. |
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| 4. Where can the reishi be
found? |
| In the past, reishi can only be found in some forests
in China, and some other places in Asia. As reishi become more popular
in the field of natural medicine, and more supportive cultivation
techniques being used, reishi now are being cultivated even in North
America. |
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| 5. Which one is the best,
wild or cultivated? |
| Basically, they are all as good as each other. Cultivated
Reishi's good quality and complete active ingredients are guaranteed.
Each Reishi is carefully cultured under strictly controlled conditions
in Canada. The product has been certified to be 100% pure by the department
of Phytomedicinal Analysis in Canada. It's quality, which includes
the environment in which Reishi is grown and its nutritional value
is better than wild grown Reishi. Modern technologies enable scientists
to reproduce the growth conditions for the spores to grow into Reishi
mushrooms. Reishi could be grown by manipulating the temperature,
humidity, carbon dioxide content, and the required nutrient medium.
The only concern is the contaminant and heavy metal content that contain
in them. Compare to the wild reishi, cultivated reishi, as all the
environmental are well-maintained and nourished, are much pure and
the active elements content are more stable. On the other hand, reishi
grown in the wild often contains more heavy metal content which are
less healthy to people. |
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6. What type of people is
suitable to eat Reishi? |
| Reishi is suitable for all ages. It is good for people
who wants to promote their health status, are suitable to consume
reishi. No matter you are boys or girls, men or women, old or young,
healthy or weak, even pregnant women are suitable to consume reishi.
For healthy individuals, Reishi can upgrade the body's organic functions
and can enhance the natural defense. It can restore homeostasis and
to improve chronic health problems. From the Chinese medicine point
of view, no matter you are cool base (Ying) and hot base (Yang), the
neutral nature of reishi will not impose any imbalance on your base. |
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| 7. Should people start eating
Reishi only after health problems occur? |
| No, Reishi can be taken even when one is healthy.
Reishi can help individuals strengthen their immune system to enhance
the body's natural defense. For people dealing with chronic health
problems, Reishi can help control the problems and minimizes the amount
of side effects incurred from western medicine. |
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| 8. How long does it take to
see the effects of Reishi? |
| Reishi extract is not a medicine, it's only a edible
health food which processed into a convenient way to consume. The
efficacy varies from person to person. The time it takes to notice
the results of reishi is dependent on the individual's health. People
who have better absorption rate seem to have faster responses. The
average effective time is ranging from a week to two months. However,
if one wants to see evident improvement, they will have to consume
reishi for a long period of time. |
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9. What is the difference
between capsule Reishi essence and making soup out of Reishi mushroom? |
| Using modern scientific methods of extraction, capsule
Reishi allows people to be better able in absorbing Reishi's essence.
On the other hand, making soup out of Reishi mushrooms are time consuming
and through the process of high heat. Reishi's essence may be damaged.
Also, active ingredients that are water-insoluble cannot be absorbed. |
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10. I am currently undergoing
chemotherapy, am I OK to take reishi extract? |
| Sure, no problems at all. As reishi extract is not
a medicine, it contains no chemical materials including caffeine,
preservatives, or coloring agents, people who have taking other prescribed
medications are fine to take reishi extract with their current medications.
It just likes you take your medication with some kinds of food. |
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11. For a patient who is
undergoing chemotherapy, what is the benefits of taking reishi extract? |
Chemotherapy is one of the treatment
options for cancer patients. It uses different combination of high
doses medications, some of them are quite hepato-toxic, to kill or
to suppress the cancer growth. As the benefit of killing cancer cell
override the shortcoming of having many side effects such as loss
of appetite, hair loss, toxic to liver and kidney, etc., chemotherapy
is still popularly used as the cancer treatment.
For a chemo cancer patient, reishi extract, acts as a protective agents,
can minimize the harmful side effects that derived from chemotherapy.
Reishi extract can strengthen and improve the detoxifying function
or liver and kidney, activating the immune system. |
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| 12. When is the best time
to take the daily dose of reishi? |
| It does not matter when to take the daily dose of
reishi. It all depends your daily routine. You may divide your daily
dosage to two or three, or you can take your daily dosage at once
if you are afraid of missing dose. However, according to our clients'
feedback, splitting the dosage into two, and taking in the morning
and noon work very good for them. |
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| 13. Is it necessary to take
the reishi with meals? |
| It is not necessary to take the reishi with meals.
Again, it all depends your habits. If you have other medications or
health products to take, you may take the reishi at the same time.
Based on the researches done on reishi, body will absorb reishi better
if taking with 500mg to 1000mg Vitamin C. If you take reishi with
Vitamin C, we recommend you to take them both with or after meals
as Vitamin C is acidic and may be too harsh for people who have gastric
problems |
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| 14. What kind
of Reishi does G-Way use? |
| G-Way Reishi essence is made from the finest
grade natural cultivated Red Reishi. Red Reishi is found to contain
the highest content of active biochemical. |
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| 15. Is G-WAY reishi essence
made of grounded reishi powder? |
| Of course not! Some products that are currently in
the marketplace simply use grounded reishi powder. However, GWAY uses
modern scientific methods such as heat and alcohol extraction, to
extract and concentrate its active ingredients and to preserve its
potency and unique neutral features. The gelatin capsule is designed
for convenient consumption. Each capsule contains an equivalent of
nine grams of Ganoderma lucidum. GWAY reishi essence is 100%
natural and pure, which does not add any glucose to raise its content
of polysaccharides. It is an excellent natural tonic for promoting
health. |
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| 16. Should I take Reishi during pregnancy or breastfeeding? |
| Until now, studies have not been very conclusive about taking Reishi during pregnancy or breast feeding. Please consult a doctor before taking Reishi. |
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| 17. Why continued use of Reishi for more than 3 to 6 months may lead to dizziness, dry mouth, nose bleeds, and upset stomach? |
This is a rare case from the research. As toxins within the body are stirred up and expelled at a more rapid rate than normal, thus certain symptoms may occur.
Dizziness, dry mouth, stomach upset and nose bleeds may resolve with continued use after a week. For some, these rare effects but may resolve after 3 to 6 months, depending on the cleansing process of each individual. |
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