what is tiger milk mushroom
what is tiger milk mushroom
tiger milk mushroom, belongs to a kind of porous bacteria. Its scientific name is Lignosus rhinocerus (Cooke) Ryv, Chinese aliases include tiger milk mushroom, tiger’s milk mushroom, of which the nucleus of tiger milk mushroom is commonly known as “tiger’s milk”.
tiger milk mushroom also known as tiger milk, Malay for cendawan susu rimau (harimau), the English name tiger’s milk mushroom, as the Malaysian aborigines widely used medicinal fungi, it is known as Malaysia’s national treasure. This fungus belongs to the genus Lignosus of Polyporales (Polyporaceae) in the subphylum Basidiomycotina (Hymenomycetes) and is a medicinal fungus with a porous structure.
As a traditional Chinese medicine, tiger milk mushroom contains polysaccharides, terpenoids, fatty acids, proteins and other physiologically active components, with antioxidant, anticancer, antiproliferative and immunomodulatory pharmacological effects. In clinical applications, it is often used in the treatment of fever, whooping cough, asthma, cancer and gastric ulcers and other diseases. For this reason, tiger milk mushroom is regarded as one of the most promising medicinal fungi.
More than 400 years ago, even with the limited technology available at the time, people discovered the medicinal value of wild tiger milk mushroom and used it as a home remedy. The native or aboriginal people of the area called wild tiger milk mushroom “tiger’s milk” and used it for more than 15 symptoms such as coughs and food poisoning.
what is tiger milk mushroom in china
in Web of Agriculture ACTA EDULIS FUNGI
1999, Vol. 06 ›› Issue (01) : 32-34. DOI: 10.16488/j.cnki.1005-9873.1999.01.007
Identification of the Scientific Name of Hurulingzhi
Huang Nianlai (Sanming Mycological Institute , Fujian Province, Sanming365000)
Hurulingzhi (Common name) is a kind of folk medicinal fungi. Chinese physicians of Hong Kong use the sclcrotium of Hurulingzhi to treat liver cancer, chronic hepatitis and gastric ulcer. But we do not know its correct scientific name. The taxonomy research result showed that the scientific name of Hurulingzhi was Polyporus rhinocerus Cooke [ = Lignosus rhinoerus (Cooke)) Ryv. It belongs to Eumycota, Basidiomycotina, Hymeno-mycetes, Aphyllophorales, Polyporaceae, Polyporus or Lignosus.
