Name: Boletus applanatus; Polyporus megaloma; Fomes applanatus; Elfringia applanata.
English: Artist's conk; Red mother fungus.
Content: steroidal compounds like ergosterol, fungisterol, alnusenone, fridelin, ganoderenic acid, furanoganoderic acid.
General: Immunostimulating properties, contains a substance with interferone like properties supposed to protect against encaphalitis virus, anti-tumour activity against sarcoma, increases spleen cell proliferation.
Action: antibiotic.
Lungs: rheumatic tuberculosis.
To stop pain and remove heat.
Stomach: indigestion; oesophageal cancer.