Nowadays, with worsening pollution of the natural environment and the ever
fierce competition of social environment, edible mushrooms are playing an increasing role
for the health of humanity as a purely natural resource with unique effects.
The hymenium of edible mushrooms contains rich nutrients and
pharmaceutical ingredients. However, healthcare and treatment actions can not reached by
direct eating. The actions can only be promoted by extracting and purifying the effective
ingredients from them. Based on the properties of each edible mushroom and adopting
scientific procedures, our company has successfully extracted from the hymenium the
effective ingredients---proteoglycan, alkaloid, triterpenes and others. Among them, the
proteoglycans, with the unique structures of ¦Â-(1¡ú3) glucosidic bond straight chain and¦Â-(1¡ú6)
glucosidic bond branched chain, have excellent physiological activities. They play an
important role in healthcare and disease treatment, such as enhancing immunity, promote
lymphocyte activity, build up the body resistance, promote leukocyte phagocytosis of
virus, bacteria and abnormal cells. They also help clean up free radicals from the body
fluid to prevent oxidation of cell membrane, thus protecting normal cells; lower blood
cholesterol and lipid levels and blood pressure; and produce a variety of anti-bacterial
factors. Apart from specific therapeutic effects for diseases, edible mushroom
polysaccharides usually have comprehensive actions. They can tonify, strengthen and
fortify the natural defense, and slow down the aging processes. Our company has developed
and manufactured on large scale a dozen types of polysaccharide powders such as lentinan
and extracts series from Chinese herbs.
These products can be widely used in:1.food
stuff series; 2. health-care foods; and 3. nutrition supplements. In addition, they can
also be made into drug products (e.g capsules,injections etc) in pharmaceutical industry.