![]() ![]() Magu used the water from the 13 springs on the mountain to brew reishi wine. ![]() Many Chinese folk tales, myths, and poems also feature reishi. For example, the myth of Magu tells of a beautiful folk woman who lived on Guyu Mountain and practiced Taoism. In it there are maids holding reishi as gifts to the emperors. Another example is the wall painting ChaoYuanTu from the Ming dynasty. Since reishi was and still is considered one of the most prized medicinal herbs in Chinese medicine, it has often been depicted alongside other powerful symbols in art. For example, in a 16th-century silk painting by Qiu Yang, reishi is presented as a gift to the most worshipped goddess in Chinese mythology, Queen Mother of the West. Of reishi, he wrote, “If eaten customarily, it makes your body light and young, lengthens your life, and turns you into one like the immortal who never dies.” He is also the attributed author of the “bible” of medicinal plants: Shennong Ben Cao Jing (a.k.a. Materia Medica). Going back even further, ancient carvings, paintings, and furniture featuring reishi have been discovered.Īncient Chinese herbalists called reishi Lingzhi because it means “herb of spiritual potency.” Emperor Yan, the first (and most legendary) in the line of ancient China’s rulers, is the founding father of the farming practices and tools that became the foundation of China’s agriculture. In addition to these texts, reishi has also shown up in ancient artworks related to Taoism. ![]() Ancient Chinese scripts documented the mushroom as an “elixir of immortality”. The first textual mentions of reishi date back to the Han dynasty, over 2,000 years ago, when Chinese healers discovered medicinal properties. Reishi, known as the “mushroom of immortality” has one of the longest established histories of medicinal use of any mushroom in the world. ![]()
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