Name: Boletus frondosa; Polyporus frondosa.
English: Maitake; Hen of the woods; Sheep's head.
Content: Polysachharides - a and b-D - glucans, grifolan, unsaturated fatty acids, phospholipids, ergosterol.
General: non insulin dependant diabetes mellitus, lowers blood glucose level, tumour inhibitor, enhances the activity of macrophages, anti-HIV activity, leukemia.
Heart: antihypertensive, lowers plasma VLDL and HDL cholesterol llevel.
Stomach: cancers.
Lung: cancer.
Abdomen: hepatocellular cancer, hepatitis.