Wood ear nourishes yin counteracts high cholesterol increases body fluids and adds moisture to the lung. It is also known as black fungus black chinese fungus or mushroom wood ear fungus wood fungus ear fungus or tree ear fungus an allusion to its rubbery ear shaped growth.
100 gm black fungus 2 slices of ginger 50 gm honey dates.
Black wood mushroom. It is a mushroom that is dark brown to black and native to asia and some pacific islands with humid climates according to the mycological society of san francisco. This is the perfect time to eat lung moisturizing foods black fungus contains vitamin k which can assist prevention of blood coagulation thrombosis and embolism. In a traditional charcoal chinese herbal pot for 8 hours.
It alleviates dryness and promotes circulation in the body. We are currently in autumn a season where our throatslungs get very dry. It is edible and often used in asian cooking.
On interesting feature of the fungus is that the wood is often decayed internally a very thin surface veneer of sound timber being left. Hirneola polytricha is an edible jelly fungus. With their thin gray brown to black color and rubbery texture wood ear mushrooms are not like your standard white or brown mushrooms.
Young specimens are edible though they become too tough to consume with age. For thousands of years in chinese history people consider wood ear mushrooms as a type of medicinal food since the rich. 5 easy to identify edible mushrooms for the beginning mushroom hunter.
The cubes however are usually found to be smaller than for dry rot. Auricularia auricula judae latin for judass ear known as the jews ear black wood ear jelly ear or by a number of other common names is a species of edible auriculariales fungus found worldwide. The black staining polypore meripilus sumstinei bruises black and can be found growing on buried wood.
Cloud ear fungus auricularia polytricha syn. Typical cuboidal cracking as for all brown rots. I drank the black fungus liquid mix with 2 table spoon of 1 cup apple cider vinegar 1 cup garlic juice 1 cup ginger juice 1 cup lemon juice 3 cup honey boil to 1 cup.
Black fungus is a good source of calcium reportedly containing twice the amount of calcium compared to milk black fungus is also rich in protein vitamins b1 b2 and d. With no caps or stems the wood ear mushroom which is sometimes called cloud ear tree ear or black fungus is most commonly sold dried and is popular in asian cooking. Black fungus or auricularia polytricha is sometimes known as wood ear cloud ear judas ear or tree ear.
Black fungus helps in nourishing the lungs liver and stomach. Marinading black ear mushroom is an easy cold dish only requires 5 minuteswood ear mushrooms also called black fungus are the common ingredients in chinese kitchen. To identify maitake may resemble other non toxic polypores.