Ganoderma Lucidum Herbs for Menopause

     

            What herbs for menopause that can help a woman go through this normal aging process smoothly?

Menopause happens when ovary function starts to decline. Thus, female hormones such as estrogen and progesterone slowly reduce, causing cholesterol level to raise and increase the risk of:

• High blood pressure

                        • Heart disease

                        • Stroke

                        • Osteoporosis

                        • Degenerative Arthritis

They also tend to suffer from insomnia, restless, vaginal inflammation, dry skin and other menopause syndromes. According to statistic, bone density will decrease by 2% to 3% in the first 2 to 3 years of menopause. After 10 years, it will decrease by 15% to 50%, causing serious osteoporosis.

            However, some supplement and herbs for menopause can help to improve body condition and reduce diseases associated with menopause.

            The first herb is Ganoderma Lucidum. This medicinal fungus contains Triterpenes that clears blood vessels from unwanted cholesterol and fats deposits. Ganoderma’s Adenosine Monophosphate (AMP) improves blood circulation and removes blood clot.

            As herbs for menopause, Ganoderma Lucidum can reduce the risk of getting cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.

            The second herb is Cordyceps Sinensis. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Cordyceps can increase kidney and lung energy. According to TCM, kidney supports the function of bone. Therefore, Cordyceps Sinensis can prevent and improve bone problems such as arthritis and osteoporosis. It also improves body condition due to aging process.

            Besides these herbs for menopause, some natural supplements can effectively help to regulate hormone imbalance caused by menopause. Conventional treatment uses female Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to improve menopausal syndromes.

            However, the Journal of American Medical Association reported that consumption of female hormones increase the chance of suffering from breast cancer, heart attack and stroke. The risk of getting cervical cancer for woman who takes hormone pills for 1 to 5 years is 5 times higher compared to those who do not take it. After taking the pills for 7 years, the risk is 18 times higher.

            So what are the alternatives? Nature provides us the answers…

            Bee’s Royal Jelly is known to contain the highest amount of natural hormones. Royal Jelly helps to improve menopause syndrome and improve vaginal dampness. Constant consumption can enhance body rejuvenation, enhance immune system and keeps your skin glittering smooth.

            However, the most important supplement for menopause is Soy Isoflavones.

            Isoflavones extracted from soy bean is a type of phytoestrogen with similar functions as female hormones. Therefore, Soy Isoflavones replenish woman’s hormone to naturally improve menopause syndrome and reduce diseases associated with menopause.

            Soy Isoflavones has a more selective function. It will only function on the bones and internal surface of blood vessels. It will not function on breast and uterus. Therefore, it will not cause breast and uterus cancer.

            Soy Isoflavones can even suppress excess estrogen what you absorb and reduce the risk of breast and uterus cancer.

            The American Heart Association Bulletin, May 2000, reported that soy

            Bean’s Isoflavones is a better choice of hormone therapy compared to medicines. Daily consumption of 92 mg isoflavone for 6 months will increase backbone density by 2.2%.

            American Clinical Gynecology magazine reported that daily intake of 60 mg Isoflavones will reduce 60% of menopause syndromes and 13% low density fatty protein.

            Other researches showed that isoflavones have strong anti-tumor, anti-cancer and anti-oxidant properties.

            With herbs for menopause such as Ganoderma Lucidum and Cordyceps Sinensis combined with natural supplement like Royal Jelly and Soy Isoflavones, many menopause woman can lead a healthy and normal life.

            Together with sufficient exercise and healthy emotions, menopause is no longer a disturbing aging problem.

Ganoderma Lucidum Herbs for Kidney

             Some herbs for kidney can enhance kidney energy and restore its functions.

       Kidney is an important organ to filter blood and expel waste substances through urine. This pair of fist sized organ is located at the back of stomach. Each kidney contains approximately 1 million cells. Those kidney cells absorb back nutrients from the blood and leave some water together with waste materials out as urine.

              In western medical theory, herbs for kidney will strengthen kidney functions to improve:

              Acute kidney infection (inflammation)

              Chronic kidney infection

              Last stage kidney infection

              Herbs for kidney also improve diseases associated with the weakening of this vital organ such as:

              High uric acid (Gout)

              Protein in urine

              Weak immune system

              However, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) regards kidney as having more important functions. According to TCM, kidney stores 3 kinds of energy:

              Prenatal energy

              Postnatal energy

              Energy of the five main organs (heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney)

              Kidney is regarded as the foundation of “yin” (negative) and “yang” (positive) energy for the 5 main organs. It supports and affects the functions of:

              Bone

              Teeth

              Ear

              Hair

              Brain

              Waist (back)

              With these TCM theories on kidney functions, let’s see what herbs for kidney can help to improve common health problems.

              It enhances prenatal energy stored in kidney. Therefore, it improves:

              Slow or retarded child growth (e.g.: small sized and skinny children)

              Children with no appetite

              Children with bedwetting problem

              By enhancing kidney’s postnatal energy, these herbs improve health conditions caused by aging especially during menopause stage of men and women.

              Kidney stores energy for the 5 organs. It acts as the “yin yang” foundation for those organs. Therefore, herbs that strengthen kidney can improve diseases associated with the 5 organs especially:

              Asthma (lung)

              Hardening of liver

              Liver cancer

              Lastly, herbs for kidney can improve health conditions such as:

              Bone spur and osteoporosis

              Teeth problems

              Hearing problems

              Hair loss

              Brain disease (e.g.: stroke, Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease)

              Backache

              Weak leg

              Afraid of cold

              Frequent urination

              Kidney cells that have died cannot be revived. Herbs can only strengthen the functions of remaining kidney cells, preventing further damage. That is why it is impossible to treat a patient undergoing dialysis because their kidney has seriously contracted.

             However, there is still some hope for patient that is near to having dialysis. These are usually patients with the following indicators in their medical report:

              High Creatinine in blood

              High Urea in blood

              Protein existence in urine (urine with bubbles that won't disperse)

              Please aware that medical report is only an indicator for reference. If medical report shows that your kidney function is okay, it doesn’t really mean it.

              If both your kidney has contracted to half (half of the cells died), your report still shows a normal kidney function. The half kidney can still handle the capacity to filter all your blood. That’s why some people donate one kidney out and still alive.

               But when your kidneys are left with around 20% to 30% of the original cells, your medical report starts to show abnormal indicators. Usually, it is too late and you will need to undergo a torturing treatment – dialysis.

             You must suspect you have weaker kidney when you experience the following symptoms:

              Increase in blood pressure

              Difficulty in urinating

              Frequent urinating even when sleeping

              Pain at waist (back)

              Urine with too much bubble

              Weak leg

              Kidney diseases are associated with the following factors:

              Eat too much salty food (burden to kidney, heart and blood vessel)  

        Eat too much meat and seafood

              Drink less water

              Long term medication of antibiotics, pain killers, steroids, etc.(toxics)

              High blood pressure (damage kidney blood vessels)

              Diabetes

              Always angry and stressful

              SLE – lupus (auto immune reaction)

              Often untreated sore throat (inflammation)

              Often refrain from urinating

              Prostate enlargement in men

              Once you know the causes, you must know how to prevent it. Kidney disease is a very torturing disease. For patients with high blood pressure and diabetes, they can go anywhere they like provided they take medications on time.

               But for patients undergoing dialysis, they cannot go anywhere they like. They need to go for dialysis 3 to 4 times per week. One session usually lasts for 4 hours. They cannot even drink too much water.

                So, please take care of your kidneys.

                Besides herbs for kidney, there are some foods that can improve kidney energy such as black bean and black sesame. Ganoderma Lucidum herbs for kidney certainly help to improve its functions too. Ganoderma Lucidum's Nucleic Acid strengthens kidney to neutralize toxic, reduces protein in urine and breaks down cholesterol.

                 However, according to ancient Chinese medical classics, the most potent herbs for kidney is Cordyceps Sinensis (Dong Chong Xia Cao). It’s a type of precious fungus grown in China with high medicinal values.

                  For better effects, take Ganoderma Lucidum and Cordyceps Sinensis together as they support each other to improve kidney function.

Ganoderma Lucidum Herbs for High Blood Pressure

                Ganoderma Lucidum is one of the effective herbs for high blood pressure.

        High blood pressure or hypertension is defined in an adult as blood pressure greater than 140 mm Hg systolic pressure or greater than 90 mm Hg diastolic pressure.

        High blood pressure can be dangerous. There are usually no warning signs in the early stages. Although you may not feel anything, untreated high blood pressure gradually damages your body organs. That is why hypertension is also called “the silent killer”

     Untreated high blood pressure can cause heart failure. Here, heart muscles become so weak that your heart cannot pump enough blood for your whole body.

        Uncontrolled high blood pressure can either burst blood vessels or cause them to gradually narrow and become blocked. In both situations, blood flow stops. Depending on which blood vessels are affected, it can result in stroke, heart attack, kidney failure and blindness.

            

High Blood Pressure Treatment

     In most cases, the mainstay of high blood pressure treatment is medication. You must consult your doctor for conventional drug prescription first before taking any herbs for high blood pressure, such as Ganoderma Lucidum.

    Medications reduce blood pressure quickly and keep it down but it doesn’t cure the disease. If you haven’t improved your diet and lifestyle, blood pressure almost always shoots back up when medication is discontinued. However, herbs for high blood pressure work to uproot the actual cause of hypertension. This may result in long term improvement for this common disease.

     There are 4 main types of medication for high blood pressure treatment:

1. Beta blockers

     Function – Directly reduce the force and speed of contraction of the heart. They may also have direct effect on body’s master controls, the central nervous system.

      E.g.: propanolol (Inderal), metoprolol (Lopressor), atenolol (Tenormin), bisoprolol (Zebeta) and carvedilol (Coreg).

  Side effects – sleep disturbances, sedation, impotence, cardiac disturbances, asthma.

2. Diuretics

      Function – Make it difficult for the kidneys to retain water and salt, which are then filtered out into the urine. It increases the amount of urine and reduces the amount of fluid in the bloodstream, and hence lowers the pressure on artery walls. It is like turning on a second faucet in your house and watching the water pressure drop in the first – not a subtle mechanism but it works.

    E.g. : furesamide (Lasix), chlorothiazide (Diuril), and spironolactone (Aldactone).

      Side effects – low potassium (leading to symptoms such as dry mouth, excessive thirst, weak or irregular heartbeat, muscle pain or cramps), impotence, high sugar level in urine, hypersensitivity.

3. ACE inhibitors

       Function – block the production of angiotensin II, a chemical the body produces to raise blood pressure.

      E.g.: benazepril (Lotensin), captopril (Capoten), enalapril (Vasotec), fosinopril (Monopril).

     Side effects – kidney damage and reduction in number of white blood cells (leading to an increased susceptibility to infection),

4. Calcium channel blockers

   The most widely prescribed drugs in the United States today.

      Function – Act by dilating the arteries and reducing resistance to the flow of blood.

  Eg. : amlodipine (Norvasc), bepridil (Vascor), nifedipine (Adalat), felodipine (Plendil), verapamil ( Calan, Covera-HS, Isoptin, Verelan).

   Side effects – Dizziness, fatigue, flushing, fluid retention and swelling, headache and palpitations.

       How to Reduce High Blood Pressure Naturally

     You can reduce high blood pressure naturally by making some changes to your lifestyle. Take note of the following points before taking any herbs for high blood pressure because these are the more important basic requirements.

    1. Keep your weight within the healthy weight range

    2. Take less fat and cholesterol food

    3. Eat less salt

    4. Drink less alcohol

    5. Take more fiber

    6. Exercise regularly

    7. Don’t smoke

    8. Manage stress and anger better

  Only with healthier lifestyle, you can have better chances to improve your hypertension. But for serious cases, this may be not enough. Together with medications, you need to take some herbs for high blood pressure such as Ganoderma Lucidum, for significant long term improvement.

 One of the causes for hypertension is the accumulation of fats and cholesterol in blood vessel wall. In adapting to narrowed blood vessels, the heart will pump harder resulting in higher blood pressure.

 The Triterpenes in Ganoderma Lucidum herb effectively clears blood vessel blockage by reducing accumulated fatty substances such as cholesterol and triglycerides. Ganoderma Lucidum Adenosine Monophosphate (AMP) can dissolve thrombus (blood clot), further helps to remove blood vessel blockage.

   These herbs for high blood pressure makes the blood flows smoother, reducing the stress on your heart. Thus it helps in lowering high blood pressure naturally. Sometimes your heart may pumps too hard and too fast because of substances like alcohol and chemicals found in cigarettes. This is another reason for hypertension.

   Ganoderma Lucidum adaptogenic herbs can stabilize the pumping force of your heart. As an adaptogenic herb, it has unique ability to:

    • reduce high blood pressure when your heart pump too hard and

   • increase low blood pressure when your heart is weaker.

     With this, Ganoderma Lucidum is considered one of the effective herbs for high blood pressure. Furthermore, its detoxification ability helps to remove toxics from medication. Therefore, it reduces side effects from drug medication and protects your liver and kidney.

  Besides improving hypertension, Ganoderma Lucidum even helps to maintain a stable blood pressure for long term. It effectively acts as preventive herbs for high blood pressure. 

Ganoderma Effects on Circulation, Nerves and Immune System

            Ganoderma Herbs for Circulation

          As we grow older, we first face problem with blood circulation disorder.

           The increase of blood viscosity will slow down blood circulation. Fatty substances such as cholesterol and triglyceride slowly increase and accumulate on blood vessel wall. As the deposit on blood vessel wall gets thicker, it leads to circulation diseases such as arteriosclerosis, hardening of coronary artery, thrombosis and so on. The narrowing of blood vessel and increase of blockage reduces blood flow and prevent good blood supply from reaching the heart. This in turn leads to pathological changes such as coronary heart disease, angina, pectoris attack and changes in artery system. Certain muscle tissue also age and even deteriorate due to insufficient nutrient from the blood supply and this lead to pathological changes in the same organ. All these lead to aging problems. Ganoderma Lucidum as herbs for circulation contains Triterpenes which are able to improve blood circulation and significantly reduce the amount of fatty substances such as cholesterol and triglyceride.

This in turn helps to prevent:

            • Heart disease

            • Hypertension

            • hardening of coronary artery

            • And other coronary heart diseases.

            Studies on mice given intravenous injection of Ganoderma Lucidum herbs have shown that these herbs for circulation can indeed improve blood circulation of cardiac muscle. This herb also helps overcoming cardiac muscle deficiency. Ganoderma Lucidum herbs for circulation can also significantly reduce the symptoms of angina pectoris and provide protection for the heart.

            The effects mentioned above are consistent with the records of ancient Sheng Nong Herbal Classic – “that it cures the accumulation of pathogenic factors in the chest, provides vital energy for heart and mental activity”.

            Ganoderma Herbs for Nerves

            Pharmalogical research had shown that Ganoderma Lucidum as herbs for nerves has a calming and sedative effect on nervous system. It is particularly effective in the treatment of neuralgia and insomnia. These herbs for nerves can help to improve sleep and appetite, enhances vital energy, improves memory and helps regain vitality.

           

All these with no side effects at all.

          As recorded in Sheng Nong Herbal Classic – “Ganoderma can calm one’s mind, enhance wisdom and has no side effects. It is moderate and non toxic”.

             

            Ganoderma Herbs for Immune System

         Researches have also shown that Ganoderma Lucidum as herbs for immune system, is high in Organic Germanium, Triterpenes and Polysaccharides. These are active components that strengthen immune system of human body. 

           T-lymphocyte and Macrophage are important immunity cells.

      The active components of Ganoderma Lucidum herbs for immune system can strengthen Lymphocyte and Macrophage to destroy abnormal cells like cancer cells.

           As a result, it helps in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Besides this, Organic Germanium, Triterpenes and Polysaccharides can also enhance the composite of Lymphocyte and Macrophage cells individually to release the Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) and interferon, which further destroy cancer cell.

           Research proved that Ganoderma Lucidum herbs for immune system effectively increase the level of alpha interferon and gamma interferon in human body to further strengthen and regulate immune system, improving cancer...

         Indeed, Ganoderma Lucidum has many beneficial effects as herbs for circulation, herbs for nerves and herbs for immune system.

Ganoderma Lucidum Herbs for Headaches

    How Ganoderma Lucidum acts as herbs for headaches to improve headaches naturally and effectively?

    Before we learn how Ganoderma Lucidum and other herbs for headaches help, let’s find out what causes headache.

            Eye, ear and nose problems can cause headache. Blood circulation blockage and even tumor growth in head will also cause this bothering problem.

            In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are many other causes for headache including:

            Too much body heat especially in liver, stomach and intestine Blood disorder and blood blockage. Entrance of cold wind, hot wind or damp wind into the body Weakness in kidney energy you need to aware that headaches are not a disease. It’s a symptom of other hidden health problems in your body.

            Therefore, to cure headaches, you need to identify its root cause. Only then, we can uproot the underlying problem. Each specific headache needs a set of specific herbs for headaches.

            However, it’s bothering to see so many people solve their headache problem with pain-killer. Although it helps to relieve the symptom, these drugs don’t really cure. After a while, the pain returns as the root problem is still unsolved.

            Consequently, over the time, you may discover that you require a higher dosage to suppress the pain.

            In the long run, these pain-killers can cause even more serious health problem such as:

              Hardening of liver

              Liver cancer

              Kidney problem

            If you visit a kidney dialysis center and ask around, you will discover about 1 in 5 of the kidney patient has been taking pain-killer for many years.

            Taking pain-killer instead of herbs for headaches is like destroying the smoke detector while it gives out fire alarm. The wiser move is to put up the fire to prevent further damage to your house.

            Although there are many causes for headaches, we can group these causes into 3 groups, namely:

              Nerve pain

              Muscle pain

              Blood vessel pain

            One herb that stands out in term of improving blood circulation and removing blood vessel blockage is Ganoderma Lucidum herbs. It’s Triterpenes and Adenosine Monophosphate (AMP) can effectively remove unwanted cholesterol, fatty substances and even blood clot that may block your blood vessels.

            Ganoderma Lucidum herbs can also relax and calm your nerves. Therefore, it helps to improve headaches caused by nerve pain. Another supplement good for nerve is Egg Lecithin, which strengthen the protective layer around brain nerves.

            Cordyceps Sinensis as herbs for headaches can improve headaches associated with weak kidney. It is traditionally used to enhance kidney energy.

            Five Leaves Ginseng herbs (Rhinacanthus Nasutus) and White Crane Lingzhi herbs (Gynostemma Pentaphyllum) can significantly reduce body heat to improve headaches caused by too much heat in the organs.

            Besides taking herbs for headaches, you must take care of your lifestyle for better recovery.

            Try to reduce stress, tension and other emotional problems. Don’t get angry. These unhealthy emotions cause your muscles and blood vessels to contract, causing pain. If you can be happy and cheerful everyday, your muscles, nerves and vessels will relax. Consequently, you’ll realize your headache occurrence will be lesser and lesser until it’s completely gone. Reduce intake of high heat food such as spicy, fried and grilled food. Sleep early to prevent body heat build-up. Preferably, sleep before 11 pm at night. Reduce coffee and tea consumption.

            With a healthy lifestyle and herbs for headaches, you can significantly improve your headache naturally over the time.

Ganoderma Lucidum Herbs for Insomnia

            Insomnia is a worrying health problem. However, using herbs for insomnia can help to improve sleeping condition and even cure it. But you must take the correct herbs specific to your condition. Many people don’t know about herbs for insomnia and take drug  medication such as sleeping pill instead.  Although medication can put you to sleep, it has some serious drawback. When you sleep, your brain waves alternate between fast (high  frequency) and slow (low frequency) waves. During slow wave stage, your body rebuilds vitality and energy.

During fast wave stage, your mind rests and rebuilds its mental energy. You dream at this stage.  After taking sleeping pill, your fast brain wave stage gets blocked. This stops you from thinking about anything that may be bothering and stressful. Sleeping pill makes your brain stays in slow wave stage all night long. This only lets you sleep but it doesn’t cure your insomnia. When you wake up, your body regains its energy. However your brain didn’t rest at all. After some time, you discover that your mind power becomes weaker. After prolong usage of sleeping pill, you might experience poor memory. In the long run, it certainly cause more harm than good.

            Therefore, we recommend using herbs for insomnia to uproot the actual cause of sleeping difficulty. This may result in long term improvement for insomnia without drug medication. First, let’s look at what causes insomnia…

            1) Excessive body heat In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), excessive heat especially in heart, liver and kidney causes insomnia. To reduce body heat, we recommend taking Five Leaves Ginseng herbs (Rhinacanthus Nasutus) and White Crane Lingzhi herbs (Gynostemma Pentaphyllum).

            2) Weak kidney another type of insomnia is caused by weakening of kidney energy. To effectively enhance kidney energy, you can take Cordyceps Sinensis as herbs for insomnia.

            3) Menopause Some woman experiences insomnia during menopause. At this stage, the reduced estrogen and progesterone female hormones causes hormone  imbalance that leads to sleeping problems.

To improve insomnia associated with menopause, Royal Jelly is one of the best supplements you can take. It contains high amount of natural hormones that balance your body hormones. Isoflavones from soy bean are another good alternative. As a type of phytoestrogen, soy Isoflavones have similar function as female hormones. Therefore, it can improve insomnia caused by menopause.

            4) Imbalance and weak nervous system Ganoderma Lucidum as herbs for insomnia can regulate imbalance and weak nervous system. Therefore, it helps to improve insomnia caused by nervous system problems. As you can see Ganoderma Lucidum is only one of the herbs for insomnia.

            You need to choose the correct herbs for your specific condition for effective improvement. If you don’t =

Know your main insomnia cause; you can take all those herbs for insomnia together.

            These natural herbs can be taken for long term without any side

            Effects. However, you must also control your emotional stress because it directly affects your sleeping condition. Return from Herbs for Insomnia to Ganoderma Lucidum Medical Research

Ganoderma Lucidum Herbs for Acne

           Some herbs for acne can naturally and effectively improve acne condition. First, we must know what causes acne. Then we need to choose the specific herbs for acne to improve the root cause of this disturbing skin problem.

             We often treat acne by applying cream to affected area. Some even take drug medications. Usually, these methods only give temporary relieve. It deals with the outer symptoms but neglected the inner root cause for acne.

            Before taking any supplements or herbs, you must first change your lifestyles and diet since it directly affects your acne conditions.

            Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) points out excessive body heat, especially liver heat, as one of the main cause for acne. Following are simple guides for reducing your body heat.

            1) Reduce sun exposure

            Acne problem is more common among people living in tropical country because the weather is hotter. Exposure to sun raises your body heat.

            2) Sleep early

            Late sleeping time increases your body heat. Our body operates on our biology clock everyday. In TCM, at each two hours interval, energy changes in our body.

            These energies affect our body functions. Late sleeping disturbs its balances, causing heat build up. So to improve acne, remember to sleep earlier, preferably before 11 pm.

            3) Reduce fried, grilled and spicy food

            These are foods high in heat that you must control.

            4) Drink more water

            Water absorbs body heat and passes it out through urine.

            5) Control anger and stress

             Therefore, the first types of herbs for acne are herbs that effectively reduce body heat.

            For fast results, we recommend Five Leaves Ginseng herbs (Rhinacanthus Nasutus) and White Crane Lingzhi herbs (Gynostemma Pentaphyllum). These herbs are high in medicinal values and can quickly reduce your body heat.

            The second cause for acne is hormone imbalance especially among teens.

            Out of the many herbs and natural supplements, Royal Jelly is the best supplement to regulate body hormones. Besides, Royal Jelly can nourish your liver with its high content of natural nutrients. A healthier liver makes your skin smoother.

            The third cause for acne is accumulation of toxics in the body.

            If you have constipation, you need to aware that your intestines will absorb toxics from the feces. The toxics will circulate to various body parts through blood circulation.

            If these toxics arrive to your face, it certainly causes acne. Therefore, you need to cure your constipation before curing your acne.

            One of the herbs for acne to detoxify your blood and liver is Ganoderma Lucidum. This herb has strong detoxification ability with its high content of Organic Germanium and other minerals.

            By neutralizing and discharging accumulated toxic out of body, Ganoderma Lucidum cleanses your blood and liver. This improves acne naturally and effectively.

            That is why taking Ganoderma Lucidum herbs for acne make your skin smoother. However, for serious case, be prepare for its temporary negative reaction. The detoxification effect removes excessive toxics through the skin, causing more acne at the beginning. When detoxification completes, acne automatically reduce. This is a very normal process.

            In addition, taking Ganoderma Lucidum herbs for acne can improve blood circulation and increase immune system. This further aids the healing of acne.

Ganoderma Lucidum Herbs for Diabetes

            Some herbs for diabetes can effectively improve this common disease together with drug medication. Treating diabetes with natural herbs can be quite complicated because more than one healing aspect are involved. Therefore, you need to take a few types of herbs for diabetes and Ganoderma Lucidum is one of them.

            Diabetes happens when blood sugar level constantly stays at a higher level. This disease can lead to many other diseases such as high blood pressure, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, food ulcer and even impotence.

            Conventional treatment for diabetes uses drug medications to suppress sugar level. Before taking any herbs for diabetes, you too must begin your treatment with medication. It helps to quickly reduce sugar level and maintain it. However, medication doesn’t cure it. It only controls this disease and prevents other associated health problems.

            There are 2 groups of medication.

            The first type forces the already weakened pancreas to produce more insulin hormone to reduce sugar level.

            The second type suppresses the absorption of sugar in intestines, thus maintaining sugar level in the blood.

            However, long term consumption of diabetes medication causes two main side effects. One is the hardening of blood vessels, causing stroke and heart disease. The other side effect is the interference with fats metabolism, causing a patient to become fatter.

            As you might have seen, some diabetes patients under long term medication are still affected with kidney failure and stroke.

            The recommended treatment for diabetes is to combine western medication with herbs for diabetes prescribed according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

            TCM looks at diabetes from a different view. It regards diabetes as a disease of too much heat in the body. TCM divides it into 3 groups, namely:

            • Upper part (lung) heat

            • Middle part (stomach) heat

            • Lower part (kidney) heat

            According to each specific case, TCM doctor will prescribe the suitable herbs for diabetes to uproot the actual cause of this disease. In the above 3 cases, the main healing functions of these herbs are:

            1) Reduce body heat

            2) Enhance kidney energy

            3) Enhance “yin” energy

            4) Boost body energy

            With these healing principles, the first recommended herbs for diabetes are Five Leaves Ginseng herb (Rhinacanthus Nasutus) and White Crane Lingzhi herb (Gynostemma Pentaphyllum).

            These herbal plants effectively reduce body heat of the upper, middle and lower part. Both can help to reduce high blood pressure and high cholesterol too.

            The second herb is Cordyceps Sinensis. This precious fungus is proven to improve kidney energy. It was used since ancient times by the Chinese to improve weak body constitution.

            The third supplement for diabetes is bee’s Royal Jelly. This natural supplement has the highest content of natural hormones. It helps to increase “yin” energy of the body. In TCM, “yin” is associated with body fluid such as blood, hormones, saliva, eye tear and joints fluid. So, taking Royal Jelly helps to naturally increase the insulin hormone produced by pancreas.

            The fourth herb is Ganoderma Lucidum. This herb helps to boost body energy for the fourth healing requirement.

            Therefore, Ganoderma Lucidum is one of the important herbs for diabetes. Although Ganoderma Lucidum alone is not enough, it does help to improve a diabetes patient’s blood circulation and increase their immune system. This prevents the disease from worsening.

            If a patient can take all these four herbs for diabetes together with western medication, healing chances are greatly increased.

            However, they must take note of the following…

            1) Reduce sugar and sweet food intake

            2) Don’t get angry and stressful

            3) Exercise regularly

            With the above lifestyles kept in mind, taking herbs for diabetes certainly improve this common disease in the long run.