Reishi – Liver Failure.

Healing the Liver
Reishi is
commonly prescribed in China for the treatment of chronic hepatitis. In
treatments lasting 2 to 15 weeks, the overall rate of efficiency was 70.7 to
98.0%.(4) In Japan, Reishi extract has been reported to be effective in treating
patients with liver failure.(1) In animal studies of mice with carbon
tetrachloride-induced hepatitis, the extent of liver damage was significantly
inhibited by continuous dosing with Reishi tincture, and the regeneration of the
liver was promoted.

Reishi mushroom is a beneficial herbal medicine used for treating liver diseases  and promoting liver health in both Western and Eastern  countries. Traditional Chinese medicine has used reishi as an important tonic  and revitalizing agent for hundreds of years, and it is prescribes to treat  hepatitis and liver cirrhosis. If you suffer from liver problems or take  prescription medications, consult with a doctor before taking reishi mushroom  products.

Liver is one of your largest body organs. It helps in body digestion, detoxification and nutrients storing. In another word, liver is a complex chemical factory in your body.

However due to continuous abuse, your liver may gradually get damaged. So how do you abuse your liver? Here are some common factors leading to liver problem:

• Alcohol and smoking
• Taking too much fried, grilled and spicy food
• Eating too much food with unhealthy fats and cholesterol
• Prolonged intoxication of chemicals, heavy metals, etc.
• Always sleep late at night (after 12am)
• Often get angry or suppress anger

Liver diseases

After all these abuses for a prolonged time, you risk getting liver diseases such as:

• Fatty liver
• Liver infection such as Hepatitis A, B, C, D and E
• Liver hardening (cirrhosis)
• and finally liver cancer

Liver disease may start with infection such as Hepatitis virus. At this moment, the virus infects and stays in your liver all the time. But if you maintain a strong immune system, the liver virus does not pose any real danger. Both the virus and you can live happily ever after.

However if you constantly have low immunity, your existing virus will attack and cause serious damage in your body. Your liver infection may further develop into liver hardening when some liver cells die out.

Eventually, liver hardening will develop into liver cancer.

Liver disease symptoms

If you have stomach ulcer, you experience extreme stomach pain. If you have knee arthritis, you experience extreme knee pain. But if you have liver problem, what do you feel? Nothing!

That’s right. You won’t feel any pain at all when you have liver disease. And when one really feels the pain, the liver damage may have developed into terminal stage.

Therefore, liver problem is very hard to detect. However, you can check your blood test for liver’s GOT, GPT, GGT, ALP, Bilirubin, Albumin and total protein. Seek treatment immediately if any of those liver indicators are too high or too low.

Common symptoms for liver problems are:

• Extreme fatigue
• Jaundice – yellowish skin and eye color
• Abdomen distention or bloating
• Poor appetite

Liver treatment

Western medicine usually treats liver diseases with interferon treatment. However, further researches showed various side effects from this treatment. Maybe you will see some improvement at the beginning. But in the long run, your liver disease will only get worse gradually due to medication side effects.

Do remember that liver is a detoxification factory in your body. When it is weak, you should reduce its burden. However by taking medicines, you continue to pour in toxins which your liver has to detoxify. How can your liver stand those burdens in the long run?

Taking Chinese herbs for long term is also not recommended because it still burdens your liver and kidney.

Ganoderma as herb for liver

Ganoderma herb can naturally enhance Interferon Alpha and Interferon
Gamma while Cordyceps Sinensis herb can enhance Interferon Gamma.

Interferons are natural protein produced by your immune system. As its name suggest, interferon can interfere virus activity by:

• inhibiting viral replication in cell
• strengthening cell resistance against viral infection
• activating natural killer cells and macrophages (immunity cells)

Ganoderma herb also effectively:

• enhance liver detoxification
• improve liver function
• and stimulate liver cell regeneration

Another important supplement for liver infection is Bee Propolis extract. This natural antibiotic helps to maintain a strong immune system and reduce liver infection. All these natural supplements will not cause any side effects or burden your liver and kidney.

Natural liver care

Some important steps for your liver care are:

• Avoid spicy, fried, grilled and oily food
• Avoid chemically processed food
• Avoid alcohol and smoking
• Sleep early
• Don’t get angry and suppress anger

A discipline lifestyle and good emotional health, together with Ganoderma, Cordyceps and Propolis is one of the best ways to control and improve liver disease, without any side effects.

Liver
Regeneration

Promising research shows that Reishi helps
regenerate the liver.  In one study, mice were given a lethal dose of the
pain-killer, Indomethacin.  In the control group, which received no Reishi, 90%
of the mice died.  In the second group which received Reishi, 100% lived!
Reishi helps accelerate the clearance of drugs and chemicals from the body, thus
helping the liver to detoxify faster. Reishi is the ultimate Phase I and Phase
II liver detoxification tonic.