Unique remedy from black fungus

However, in addition to its high nutritional value that not everyone knows about, black fungus also has very unique disease prevention properties.

Black fungus

In fact, this is a type of mushroom that grows on rotten trees and branches. It has a shape that looks like a human ear. The outer surface is light brown with fine hairs and the inner surface is smooth and dark brown.

According to traditional nutrition, black fungus is sweet in taste, neutral in nature, has the effect of cooling and stopping bleeding, nourishing blood and qi, moistening the lungs and stomach, moistening the intestines, and promoting bowel movements. It is often used as food and medicine for people with diseases such as bleeding (bloody stools due to hemorrhoids, dysentery, hematuria, retinal hemorrhage, menorrhagia, gonorrhea, coughing up blood, etc.), constipation, chronic gastritis with insufficient stomach yin, cough due to dry lungs, anemia, etc.

Black fungus combined with daylily and white sugar has the effect of treating hematuria.
In traditional medicine, the ancients used wood ear in many different forms such as stir-frying, drying, grinding into powder, drinking, or applying, etc., with the aim of providing nutrients and preventing diseases. Below are some specific uses:

- 15 - 30g wood ear, soak in warm water until fully expanded, then wash, simmer, add a little white sugar, eat during the day. Uses: nourishes yin and stops bleeding, often used to prevent bleeding.

- 60g wood ear, 10g blood residue. Roast wood ear until it smokes, grind both ingredients into powder, mix well, drink 6-10g every day with warm water or a little vinegar. Uses: disperses blood stasis and stops bleeding, used for women with metrorrhagia (metarrhythmia, menorrhagia; metrorrhagia, menorrhagia).

- 5g wood ear, 5 jujubes, 100g rice, enough rock sugar. Soak wood ear in warm water, wash clean; remove seeds from jujubes. Cook both with rice into porridge, add rock sugar, divide into several meals a day. Uses: nourish yin, moisten lungs, strengthen spleen and stop bleeding, nourish brain, strengthen heart and anti-cancer, suitable for people with long-term cough, weak body, hemoptysis, irregular menstruation, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, cancer...

Black fungus is actually a type of mushroom that grows on rotten trees and branches.

- 60g wood ear, 15g black sesame. Half of the wood ear is burnt, half is dried, black sesame is roasted until fragrant, all is crushed and mixed well, every day take 6g, steep in 120ml of boiling water, drink as tea. Uses: nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens the brain and improves intelligence, long-term use is very beneficial for physical and mental health.

- 200g wood ear, 100g red dates, 250g rock sugar. Soak wood ear in warm water until fully expanded, wash, simmer with red dates in 2000ml of water until very soft, add rock sugar, divide into 7 portions, eat 1 portion per day, divided into 2 times in the morning and afternoon. Uses: kidney tonic, blood-stopping, used for women with functional uterine bleeding due to kidney deficiency.

- 15g wood ear, 30 red dates. Stew both until soft, eat during the day. Uses: nourishes blood and regulates menstruation, used for people with anemia and women with uterine bleeding and vaginal discharge.

- 30g wood ear, 20g brown sugar. Soak wood ear in warm water, wash, cook until soft, add brown sugar, puree, divide into 2 servings per day. Uses: cools blood, stops bleeding, lowers blood pressure, suitable for people with functional uterine bleeding and high blood pressure.

- Wood ear and sea bean in equal amounts, dried and powdered, drink 9g per day, has the effect of preventing diabetes.

- 30g wood ear, 120g daylily, enough white sugar. Wash both ingredients, cook into soup, add sugar, eat hot. Uses: diuretic, used for people with hematuria.

- 6g wood ear, 50g lean pork, 9g Buddha's hand, 20g Coix. Soak wood ear in warm water, wash clean; slice pork; slice Buddha's hand. Cook all into soup to eat during the day. Uses: clears the mind, promotes blood circulation, and removes blood stasis. Used for people with coronary heart disease.

- Dry and grind wood ear into powder, drink 2 times a day, 5 - 10g each time with brown sugar, has the effect of treating functional uterine bleeding.

- 30g wood ear, 1 pig stomach. Soak wood ear in warm water, wash clean; clean pig stomach; cook both, add spices, eat during the day. Use continuously for 3-5 days, effective in treating frequent urination.

- 20g wood ear, soak in warm water, wash, cook with 20g rock sugar to get the water to drink during the day or cook porridge with sticky rice and lotus seeds to eat to prevent chronic bronchitis and peripheral leukopenia.

- 5g wood ear, 200g tofu, cook both into soup and eat regularly or cook 6g wood ear with rock sugar and drink the water before going to bed to prevent high blood pressure.

In addition, regularly eating 10 - 20g of black fungus every day can effectively prevent constipation. It should be noted that people with chronic diarrhea due to colitis or chronic gastritis should not eat black fungus.

Modern research results show that black fungus has the ability to inhibit platelet aggregation, prevent blood clotting due to vascular occlusion, and prevent the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in blood vessels...

Therefore, for people with high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, cerebral circulatory insufficiency, coronary artery insufficiency, etc., wood ear is one of the ideal foods.

On the other hand, the plant glue that is quite abundant in wood ear has the effect of collecting dust and impurities remaining in the digestive tract so that the body can easily eliminate them, contributing to cleaning the stomach and intestines. Wood ear also has anti-aging, antibacterial, anti-radiation effects and inhibits some strains of cancer cells.

Therefore, many nutritionists believe that wood ear is one of the foods that has longevity properties.

According to (Health & Life) - nt