i got chinese herbs to take. apparently one of the hot topics in herbalism is mushrooms. certain mushrooms are immunostimulants. three types in particular are the focus of most of the studies: shitake, maitake, and reishi. i regularly saute the first two, but i’ve never seen reishi before.
so i was in chinatown two days ago, and i thought to stop into one of the dried good stores. frankly i was expecting total epic failure, but the first person i talked to got very excited and walked to the back of the store and showed me this box. and explained that it was the extract of the red reishi mushroom. the spores are ground up in capsules.
he also tried to sell me some other herbal supplements for “manly potency.” i passed.
