The Lignosus rhinocerotis (Cooke) Ryvarden, commonly known as Tiger Milk Mushroom, is an edible type of mushroom. 
 

What is Tiger Milk Mushroom?

The Lignosus rhinocerotis (Cooke) Ryvarden, commonly known as Tiger Milk Mushroom, is an edible type of mushroom. It is high in nutritional and medicinal value and is used as a health tonic in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, China and the Philippines.

Tiger Milk Mushroom comes from the same fungi family as the lingzhi and is highly sought after for its health benefits and medicinal properties by both the aboriginal and urban populations. 

In fact, in the 1950s and 60s, it was not uncommon for Chinese families to keep some Tiger Milk Mushroom in their homes as a go-to medicine for cough, cold and asthma. The Malays also use it as a natural remedy for various ailments such as breast, liver and lung cancer. 

What is Tiger Milk Mushroom Good for?

Tiger Milk Mushroom can be used to treat over 15 medical ailments, which include breast cancer, fever, cough, inflammatory diseases such as asthma and food poisoning. Tiger Milk Mushroom is often used to treat: 

• Cancer
• Asthma
• Sinus
• Cough
• Smoker’s cough
• Bronchitis
• Nasal sensitivity
• Respiratory allergies, and
• Snoring

How Tiger Milk Mushroom Benefits Respiratory Health

Tiger Milk Mushroom helps improve respiratory health by reducing inflammation in the lungs and airways. It also bolsters the immunity system against viral and microbial infections. 

Apart from removing impurities from inflamed cells, detoxifying your respiratory system and soothing inflamed mucous membranes, Tiger Milk Mushroom also helps provide protection to your lungs and airways.  

All in all, Tiger Milk Mushroom enhances respiratory health through six key properties — it is anti-asthmatic, anti-inflammatory, anti-illness, anti-microbial and also an antioxidant.

Here are the respiratory benefits one can look forward to when consuming Tiger Milk Mushroom: 

1. Relieves cough and phlegm
2. Alleviates asthma symptoms
3. Improves breathing
4. Relieves respiratory inflammation
5. Helps to reduce airway inflammation
6. Promotes healthy mucus production
7. Boosts respiratory wellness
8. Improves sinus and lung respiratory system
9. Enhances your immune system.

Tiger Milk Mushroom’s Six Clinically-Proven Healing Properties

This medicinal mushroom has six clinically-proven healing properties, which includes anti-inflammatory, anti-asthmatic, anti-illness, anti-microbial, antioxidant properties — all of which help strengthen and protect the respiratory system. 

1. Anti-Asthmatic

Tiger Milk Mushroom helps soothe respiratory inflammations, improves breathing and relieves asthma symptoms.

2. Anti-Inflammatory

Tiger Milk Mushroom also has anti-inflammatory properties that help asthma patients reduce inflammation in their airways and relax airway muscles for easier breathing.

3. Anti-Illness 

Tiger Milk Mushroom contains polysaccharides that are known for their immunoregulatory properties. They help to improve the recovery systems for respiratory allergies.

4. Antioxidant

Tiger Milk Mushroom is high in antioxidants, helping combat free radicals in the body and repairing cellular damage in the respiratory system.

5. Anti-Microbial

Tiger Milk Mushroom heightens the immunity of lungs to defend the body against allergic germs while relieving common allergy symptoms.

6. Boost Immunity

In-vitro tests have shown that Tiger Milk Mushroom play a role in improving and boosting the body’s immune system.