Kaiping Lingzhi

Kaiping Lingzhi

　　Kaiping Lingzhi – A renowned, high-quality, and novel agricultural product of Jiangmen City

　　Lingzhi, also known as Forest Spirit or Precious Treasure (scientific name: Ganoderma Lucidum Karst), is best when grown in forests. It has an umbrella-like shape, with a kidney-shaped, semi-circular, or nearly circular cap, and is the fruiting body of the polypore fungus Ganoderma. It has the effects of invigorating qi, calming the nerves, relieving cough, and calming wheezing. It is used for dizziness and insomnia, palpitations and shortness of breath, neurasthenia, deficiency fatigue cough and wheezing, and promoting longevity.

　　Lingzhi has a medicinal history of over a thousand years in China. The “King of Medicine” Sun Simiao took Lingzhi throughout his life starting at the age of 35 and lived to be 101 without illness, witnessing the longevity benefits of Lingzhi with his own life. The earliest record appears in Emperor Xuan’s “Ode to Visiting Seven Mountain Temples,” which says: “The mountains abound in treasures, the land produces Precious Treasure.” Here, Precious Treasure refers to Lingzhi, symbolizing “treasure.” The King of Medicine Sun Simiao also referred to the Lingzhi he found in the forest as “Precious Treasure,” and later people came to call this forest-grown Lingzhi “Qiongzhen Lingzhi” (Precious Treasure Lingzhi).