What is the medicinal value and efficacy of Phellinus igniarius?

Medicinal value has the function of promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Its main function is to inhibit sweat gland secretion.

Phellinus igniarius (scientific name of traditional Chinese medicine), also known as parasitic mulberry and Sang Chen. It belongs to Phellinus of Polyporaceae. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation to stop bleeding, detoxicating and stopping diarrhea, and is often used for metrorrhagia, bloody stranguria, anorectal diarrhea, excessive leucorrhea, amenorrhea, epigastric stagnation, alcohol addiction and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. Distributed in North China, Northwest China, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and other places.

Extended data

It belongs to Phellinus: the fruiting body is perennial, woody and sessile. It is hemispherical, horseshoe-shaped or irregular, with a convex ventral surface, (5-20)cm×(7-30)cm and a thickness of 3- 15cm. When young, there are fine hairs on the surface, which fall off late and have obvious cracks, and there are no leather shells, fake leather shells and concentric rings. Cover taupe, liver brown to black, shiny; The edge is round and blunt, with few cracks, dense and short fluff, which falls off after drying and is yellowish brown to brown. Mushroom meat is hard, woody, dark brown and about 0.5 cm thick. The bacteria tube has many layers, and the layers are often not obvious. The old fungus tube is full of white hyphae. The surface of nozzle is rust brown to sauce color; The nozzles are circular, with 4-5 nozzles per1mm. The bristles are sharp at the top and swollen at the bottom, (10-25) μ m× (5-7) μ m. The spores are nearly spherical, smooth and colorless, and (5-6) μ m× (3-4) μ m. ..

Phellinus igniarius is born on the trunk of broad-leaved trees such as poplar and willow. Distributed in North China, Northwest China, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and other places.

The mushroom cap is woody, oblate or horseshoe-shaped, (2- 12)cm×(3-2 1)cm, and its thickness is 1.5- 10cm. It is light liver brown to dark gray or black, and it often cracks when it is old and has no shell. It has fine fluff in infancy and then becomes hairless. Blunt edge, light brown, no fruiting body on the lower side; Mushroom meat is dark brown and woody; The bacteria tube is multilayer, and the level is not obvious. The old fungus tube is full of white hyphae. The nozzle is brown; Spores are nearly spherical and smooth, (5-6) cm× (4-5) microns; The hyphae are unbranched and septate, with a diameter of 3-5 μ m.