Reishi mushroom, Ganoderma lucidum, is a well-known Chinese crude drug used clinically in China. The fruit bodies are used for treating neurasthenia, deficiency fatigue, insomnia, bronchial cough in older adults, and carcinoma. Many studies have indicated that water or ethanol extracts of G. lucidum showed protective actions against acute hepatitis in rats or mice. Other reports had previously [...]