Monkey Head Mushroom Benefits

Monkey head mushroom is both a food treasure and an important medicinal mushroom in China. Monkey head mushroom is one of the eight “mountain treasures” in China, since ancient times, there has been “mountain treasures monkey head, sea food bird's nest”, and the bear's paw, sea cucumber and shark's fin is listed as one of the four famous dishes, the meat is tender and flavorful, tasty, nutritious and rich in color, aroma and taste. For example, Shen Ying of the Three Kingdoms wrote “Linhai soil and water, foreign objects” has the following record: “people are good to eat monkey head beauty, although five meat or not,” indicating the ancient people's love for the monkey head mushroom. In addition, monkey head mushroom is also a traditional Chinese precious Chinese medicine, with the function of nourishing and fitness, helping digestion and benefiting the five organs. Modern research shows that it contains active ingredients such as peptides, polysaccharides, fats and proteins, which are effective in treating digestive tract tumors, gastric and duodenal ulcers, gastritis and bloating.

Nutritional Componentsof Hericium erinaceus

1.DF (dietary fiber)

Hericium erinaceus is rich in dietary fiber, which helps to promote intestinal motility and increase the frequency of defecation to prevent constipation.

2. Rich in vitamins and minerals

Hericium erinaceus is rich in vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin B, vitamin D, potassium, magnesium and so on. Mineralslike potassium and magnesium.

3, rich in protein content

Hericium erinaceus is rich in high-quality protein and is an excellent source of plant protein.

antioxidant substances

Hericium erinaceus contains a variety of antioxidants, such as polyphenols, β-glucan and so on.

4. Hericium erinaceus tastes delicious but is relatively low in fat, making it suitable as part of a healthy diet.

Medicinal value

①.Anti-inflammatory and anti-ulcer: monkey head mushroom extract can treat gastric mucosal damage, chronic atrophic gastritis, and can significantly increase the eradication rate of Helicobacter pylori and ulcer healing rate .

②.Anti-tumor: Anti-tumor in the monkey head mushroom's fruiting body extract and mycelium extract play an important role .

③.Hypoglycemia: Mycelium extract of Monkey Head mushroom can fight against hyperglycemia caused by tetracosan, and its mechanism of action may be that the polysaccharide of Monkey Head mushroom binds to the specific receptor on the cell membrane, and then transmits the information to the mitochondria through cyclic adenosine monophosphate, which enhances the activity of sugar metabolism enzymes, and then speeds up oxidative decomposition of sugar, and then reduces the purpose of blood sugar.

④.Antioxidant and anti-aging: both aqueous and alcoholic extracts of Monkey head mushroom substrates have free radical scavenging ability, and three-part endoglycosides of Monkey head mushroom mycelium in tofu whey were evaluated for their potential antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects, and the results showed that they had different activities in different systems, and they exhibited strong antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects in vitro and in vivo.

Economic Value

Monkey Head Mushroom Health Wine

Monkey Head Mushroom, Shiitake Mushroom and Golden Needle Mushroom are used as raw materials to make Edible Mushroom Three Mushroom Health Wine, which has the effect of improving human immunity. With monkey head mushroom as the main raw material, adding auxiliary materials of wolfberry, honey, using pure sorghum of clear liquor base liquor brewing process, made into edible fungus health wine, this health wine has the effect of improving immunity, anti-fatigue health care .

Monkey head mushroom health drink

Monkey head mushroom and fresh grapes are used as the main raw materials to make the unique flavor of monkey head mushroom grape juice health drink. In the process of monkey head mushroom liquid cultivation, it is equipped with jujube, malt, wolfberry, etc., which have the same origin as medicine and food, to enrich the fermentation system, which is not only conducive to the release of functional nutritional factors in jujube, malt, wolfberry, but also conducive to enriching the metabolites of monkey head mushroom in the process of metabolism, which not only improves the nutritional value of the drink, but also has the value of technological innovation.

Monkey head mushroom health yogurt

Rose water, monkey head mushroom extract and recovered milk are used as raw materials, fermented to make rose water and monkey head mushroom compound health care yogurt, and its processing technology is studied, and the yogurt produced is smooth, sweet and sour, and has a pleasant aroma.

Monkey head mushroom tea

Monkey head mushroom seed entity preparation of extract, and then with the organic combination of tea processing technology to make the monkey head mushroom tea, not only to maintain the biological activity of the active ingredients in the monkey head mushroom, but also has a tea flavor, is a unique flavor of nutrition and health care products.

Monkey head mushroom medicine

Pharmaceutical preparations are mainly processed by slanting test tube culture of mycelium, after three-stage strain selection and breeding, fermented in the fermentation tank for 7-10 days, then put the tank to collect the mycelium, and then dried and formulated into a variety of dosage forms of proprietary Chinese medicines, such as “Gastric Lexin”, “stomach spirit”, “monkey head mushroom tablets”, “monkey head mushroom tablets” and “monkey head mushroom tablets”. “Monkey Head Mushroom Tablet”, ‘Monkey Head Soak’, ‘Compound Monkey Head Punch’, ‘Monkey Head Mushroom Oral Liquid’, etc., which are used for the treatment of Dyspepsia, peptic ulcer, inflammation and other diseases.