Talk:Lingzhi

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[edit] Verifiability

This article's final section opens with the sentence: "Numerous studies of lingzhi, mainly in China, Korea, Japan and the United States, has shown its effectiveness in the treatment of a very wide range of diseases and symptoms." Not one of those studies is cited, and I found no such studies in Google and no mentions of lingzhi (or reishi or ganoderma) on major medical sites. This section should either be sourced or excised. | Keithlaw 18:54, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

-Try PubMed. There's plenty of concrete, peer-reviewed research - whether it substantiates the herbalists' claims, I'm not qualified to say. Here's 10 hits from PubMed:

Woo CW, Man RY, Siow YL, Choy PC, Wan EW, Lau CS, Karmin O. Related Articles, Links Abstract Ganoderma lucidum inhibits inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in macrophages. Mol Cell Biochem. 2005 Jul;275(1-2):165-71.

2: Nonaka Y, Ishibashi H, Nakai M, Shibata H, Kiso Y, Abe S. Related Articles, Links Abstract [Soothing effect of Ganoderma lucidum antlered form on cyclophosphamide-induced adverse reaction] Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2005 Oct;32(11):1586-8. Japanese.

3: Wang CZ, Basila D, Aung HH, Mehendale SR, Chang WT, McEntee E, Guan X, Yuan CS. Related Articles, Links Abstract Effects of ganoderma lucidum extract on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in a rat model. Am J Chin Med. 2005;33(5):807-15.

4: [No authors listed] Related Articles, Links No abstract [Luminous quack doctor] Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax. 2005 Sep 21;94(38):1497. German. No abstract available.

5: Hijikata Y, Yasuhara A, Sahashi Y. Related Articles, Links Abstract Effect of an herbal formula containing Ganoderma lucidum on reduction of herpes zoster pain: a pilot clinical trial. Am J Chin Med. 2005;33(4):517-23. PMID: 16173526 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 6: Gao Y, Tang W, Dai X, Gao H, Chen G, Ye J, Chan E, Koh HL, Li X, Zhou S. Related Articles, Links Abstract Effects of water-soluble Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides on the immune functions of patients with advanced lung cancer. J Med Food. 2005 Summer;8(2):159-68. PMID: 16117607 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 7: Yang HL, Chen GH, Li YQ. Related Articles, Links Abstract A quantum chemical and statistical study of ganoderic acids with cytotoxicity against tumor cell. Eur J Med Chem. 2005 Oct;40(10):972-6. Epub 2005 Jul 11.

8: Gao Y, Gao H, Chan E, Tang W, Xu A, Yang H, Huang M, Lan J, Li X, Duan W, Xu C, Zhou S. Related Articles, Links Abstract Antitumor activity and underlying mechanisms of ganopoly, the refined polysaccharides extracted from Ganoderma lucidum, in mice. Immunol Invest. 2005;34(2):171-98.

9: Lin YL, Liang YC, Lee SS, Chiang BL. Related Articles, Links Abstract Polysaccharide purified from Ganoderma lucidum induced activation and maturation of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells by the NF-kappaB and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways. J Leukoc Biol. 2005 Aug;78(2):533-43. Epub 2005 May 13.

10: Tang W, Gao Y, Chen G, Gao H, Dai X, Ye J, Chan E, Huang M, Zhou S. Related Articles, Links Abstract A randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study of a Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharide extract in neurasthenia. J Med Food. 2005 Spring;8(1):53-8.

129.128.166.158 20:26, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Modern scientific studies

Definately POV - the section takes an opportunity to defend 'traditional oriental wisdom' from Western conceptions of medicine. That sort of talk should be elsewhere. The bottom line is, many of the traditionally-ascribed properties have not yet been corroborated by science (which is not traditional oriental wisdom, but is the title of the section). I would, at minimum, excise a whole paragraph. 129.128.166.158 20:26, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

Is it better known in English as lingzhi or reishi? Badagnani 05:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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