Ganoderma Lucidum has always been ranked the #1 herb in China, and was documented as such by China's two most-famous medical scholars and herbalists, Shen Nong and Li Shizhen.
#1 in Shen Nong's "Ben Cao Jing" Ganoderma Lucidum, known as Lingzhi in China, is classified as the “most-superior” of all herbs in Shen Nong’s Ben Cao Jing — an ancient book of herbs and medicine, or pharmacopoeia. Also known as the Yan Emperor, Shen Nong ruled a tribal empire in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in Hunan and Hubei provinces. Regarded as the father of Chinese agriculture, he taught crop cultivation and the medical use of herbs, especially Lingzhi. Indeed, Shen Nong was China’s first herbal doctor, risking his life daily to taste new herbs to assess their effect.
Shen Nong described 365 herbs in three classes: 120 Superior, 120 Average, and 125 Fair. A superior herb is one that “serves to maintain life, promote radiant health and long life … and to cause no side effects, even when used continuously.” Of the 365 herbs, Lingzhi was rated #1 — way higher than Ginseng — and thus is the most exalted Chinese medicine, originally restricted for use by the royal household (under penalty of death) because it was so rare. The first 6 herbs in Shen Nong’s “superior” class are the very same 6 types of Ganoderma Lucidum blended exclusively by Gano Excel into its beverages and other products.
#1 in Li Shizhen's "Ben Cao Gang Mu" Li Shizhen (AD 1517-1593) was a doctor in a long line of several generations of doctors in Qichun County, Hubei Province. He wrote the General Outlines and Divisions of Herbal Medicine (or Ben Cao Gang Mu in Chinese). By far the greatest contribution to Chinese and world herbal medicine in history, the original compilation had 12,000 recipes and 1,900 medicines. Among all the items in this vast compilation, Li Shizhen ranked Ganoderma Lucidum as #1.
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