Elm mushroom

Elm mushroom

(Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the fruiting body of Pleurotus citrinopileatus.

[plant morphology] Tricholoma matsutake

The fruiting bodies are clustered. The fungus cover is yellow to grass yellow, smooth, funnel-shaped, 3-10 cm wide; the fungus flesh is white, fleshy and fragrant; the stalk is slanting, white, 2-10 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm thick, often connected with the base; the fungus fold is white, slightly dense, elongated, not forked, narrow to slightly wide. Spores are colorless and smooth.

On the fallen wood or trunk of broad-leaved trees such as elm and oak. It is distributed in Jilin, Hebei and other places.

[collection] the fruiting bodies were harvested from July to September and dried in the sun.

[function indications] nourishing and strengthening. It can cure weakness and impotence.

[formula selection] ① treat wilt disease (muscle wilt); soak one jin of elm mushroom in yellow rice wine for nine days, steam nine days, and then bake it into yellow powder. Take one yuan each time. Then take one or two hazelnut mushrooms and fry them in yellow rice wine and water. After frying, take the hazelnut mushrooms and water together with the prodrug once a day for ten days.

② Cure dysentery: elm mushroom in half. Bake, grind and take twice a day.