There are many reishi mushroom powder benefits, tumor inhibition could be the most important one.

Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides are an important component of reishi powder for treating tumors. reishi powder can inhibit tumors, reduce the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, prolong patients’ survival …
So how do Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides fight against tumors?

Some researchers carried out an experiment: experimenters put reishi mushroom powder and tumor cells in a container, and found that the tumor cells were still alive and have not been inhibited. This is a reasonable result. Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides cannot directly kill tumor cells without an intermediate material.reishi mushroom powder benefits

So what could be the intermediate material to inhibit tumors. They are immune cells, such as macrophages, natural killer cells, T lymphocytes, and so on.
Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides can enhance the body’s immunity and activate the anti-tumor immune mechanism. For example, when we enhance the activity of natural killer cells, they can destroy the DNA synthesis of cancer cells, inhibit the increase of cancer cells.
Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides can also increase the number and activity of “B lymphocytes”, which can strengthen the capacity of phagocytes and enhance the cytotoxic effects of T killer cells. Eventually the human body’s immunity to tumors becomes stronger, which helps killing tumor cells.

Now we have a new question: many nutrients can improve immunity, what makes ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides so special?
While increasing the number and vitality of immune cells, ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides induce them to release factors that can promote tumor cell death, such as tumor necrosis factor TNF-α, interferon IFN-γ, etc.

There are two other abilities of  ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides that are important for anticancer:

Lower the activity of cancer cells
Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides can improve the formation of fibrin (fibrin is a protein related to blood clotting). The fibrin can wrap the early tumor mass tightly, isolate it from the outside world, cut off the nutrition supply of tumor cells, and tumor cells can only be in a dormant state.

Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides can reduce the surface charge of tumor cells. The surface charge of tumor cells is several times higher than that of normal cells. When the surface charge is reduced, the “division regulator gene” of tumor cells is activated. It can delay the speed of tumor cell division, thereby inhibiting the growth of tumor cells. If the tumor cells do not increase, the tumor will not spread.

Now you can understand why tumor inhibition is the most important reishi mushroom powder benefit. Besides polysaccharides, reishi mushroom powder also has another important component which fights against cancer: triterpenes.