Research overview
Prostate and urination
A research team at Kurume University in Japan carried out two trials. Men over 50 with urinary problems who took a lingzhi ethanol for 8 to 12 weeks improved more on the than those taking a . Notably, the daily dose in both studies was only about 6 mg. The researchers also reported no clear change in test results such as urine flow rate or prostate size.
This topic includes 2 studies and reports, each linked to its source.
Terms explained on this page (5)
- randomized
- Deciding who takes lingzhi and who does not by something like drawing lots, so the two groups are as similar as possible and the comparison is fair.
- double-blind
- Neither the participants nor the researchers know who is taking lingzhi and who is taking the comparison product, which makes the results more objective.
- extract
- A product made by drawing out and concentrating lingzhi’s components with water or alcohol. Different extraction methods yield different components.
- prostate symptom score
- An internationally used questionnaire score (IPSS) for rating how bad symptoms such as frequent urination, nighttime urination and difficulty urinating are.
- placebo
- A comparison product that looks and tastes like the real product but contains no active ingredients, used to compare against the real thing.