Lasiosphaera Extract

Product Properties

Product Name: Lasiosphaera Extract
Source:Lasiosphaera seu calvatla
Other Name 01:Lycoperdon Bovista
Other Name 02:Buffball
Chinese Name:Ma Bo
Active Ingredient:gemmatein, leucine, tyrosine
Specification:Fungus, cut slice
Appearance:yellow brown powder

Detailed Description

Medicinally it means the dried fruiting body of quite a few types of mushrooms. However, clinically the major three are Lasiosphaera fenzlii Reich., Calvatia gigantea (Batsch ex Pers.) Lloyd, and Calvatia lilacina (Mont. et Berk.) Lloyd. Other names include Lasiosphaera, Calvatia, Fructificatio Lasiosphaerae Seu Calvatiae, Lasiosphaera seu Calvatia, pearly puffball, Lasiosphaera fenslii puff-ball, giant puffball mushroom, and so on. It is usually harvested during summer and autumn when the fruiting bodies are mature. After the harvesting, it should remove the dirt, dry, get rid of the outer crust, cut into cubes or grind into powder, and use raw.

Lasiosphaera fenzlii is oblate or spherical, 15 to 20cm in diameter, and with no base. Peridium is gray-brown to brown, papery, and often broken in blocks or flakes, or peeled off entirely. The body is brown or light brown, compact, flexible, and with gray-brown cottony filaments when shredded. Spores would fly like dust when touched. It makes hands feel delicate when twisted. And it is tasteless and smells like dust; Calvatia gigantea is with no or little base. Residual peridium consists of yellow-brown membraniform exoperidium and thicker grayish yellow endoperidium. It is smooth, hard, brittle, and peeled off in blocks. Spore body is pale green-brown and lubricant; Calvatia lilacina looks like a spinning top or oblateness if flattened. It is 5 to 12cm in diameter and with developed base. Peridium is thin, two layered, purple brown, rough, wrinkled, and with circular depression.

As for chemical composition, Lasiosphaera fenzlii contains leucine, tyrosine, urea, ergosterol, lipoids, calvacin, 72.18% sodium phosphate, 15.66% Al, 2.93% Mg, 0.44% silicic acid, 8.77% sulfate. Among them, the sodium phosphate is the highest in content; the fat-soluble part of calvatia gigantea contains ergosta-7, 22-diene-3-one, 22-diene-3-ol, β-sitosterol, palmitic acid, peroxidase, coenzyme Q, fatty acids, etc. And the content of TAA (total amino acids) is 32.9mg/100mg; Calvatia lilacina contains antibacterial ingredient of calvatic acid and anti-fungal and anti-bacterial ingredient of nitrogen cyanide, and steroid dimers. In addition, it still contains amino acids and phosphates.

Functions

1. Clears heat, generates fluids – heat patterns with high fever, irritability, thirst.
2. Clears lung heat – cough, thick yellow sputum.
3. Clears stomach heat – vomiting, belching.
4. Clears heat, diuretic – dark, scanty urine, xue lin, accompanied by thirst and irritability.
5. Encourages rashes to the surface – for febrile disease with rashes that are incompletely expressed

Applications

1. Health care products.
2. Medicine usage, capsules, tablet, pill and so on.