The Role of LingZhi in the Immune War

So we went to the talk by Dr Chen on Monday night. He explained about how our own body's immunity could fight viruses.

Human's real predator is the virus. According to research, new virus appears almost every year. This happened because of mutation of viruses in our environment.

Since 1918, H1N1 flu was found in Spain which killed more than 30 million people worldwide. World War I even ended possibly because of this influenza disease.

Around 1957, H2N2 flu was found in Asia and In 1968, H3N2 flu was spotted in Hong Kong, which killed more than 1 million victims. Few years back, we were shocked by the existence of SARS and now, we're haunted by the latest mutation of virus, Type A(H1N1) flu. Please refer to the diagram below for the growth of different viruses since early 1900s. 

Image source from Wikipedia.

Type A(H1N1) flu or it's more popular by the name of 'Swine Flu' is awfully dangerous to everyone. This is because, it is very difficult for one to know whether he/she is infected with the disease since the 'hiding period' for the virus to stay in the body before that person suffers from fever/flu is about 7 days. Hiding period is the duration where the virus stays before it starts attacking the body. And the worse thing is, we never know who is already infected with A(H1N1) virus before that person is diagnosed with fever/flu and he/she doesn't have to fall sick to transmit the disease to the next person. This virus can also spread at a warm temperature so it can be transmitted to anyone, anywhere and anytime. 

Illustration of influenza antigenic shift

So how can human survive from this virus?

There's no other vaccine out there which can help to cure this disease. Even when the scientists have came up with a solution, by that time, a new virus has appeared and this process will go on and on. The best way to fight the in-coming virus from attacking our body is our own immunity system. That's why people say, "The best doctor for you is your own body". Which is very true. If you have a very powerful immunity system, it can fight all the viruses from attacking your body and the rest of the systems.

This is where Lingzhi can play a role. Lingzhi is not a vaccine in immune war. It is instead a representative of immune power. Lingzhi has the capability to regulate the immune system in our body. The immune system should not be too weak, as predators can easily break in, and it should not be too strong, where it can attack back our own body. By taking Lingzhi, the immune power can be regulated so that it will make sure the defense cells are powerful to fight viruses and diseases.

When the 1st and 2nd defense cells are powerful, the most important weapon in our body will be strong, which is the antibody, used to identify the known virus and foreign objects (mutated virus).

The requirements for a powerful immunity system are to:

- avoid over reaction of immune cells

- supply sufficient immune cells

- terminate phatogen

- produce antibody in short time

In conclusion, when we have a powerful immune system in our body, we can (God willing) fight all the new virus mutations no matter where they come from, be it bird, swine, or human-sourced.

So everyone, please do take care of your own body. Do not abuse this hardworking 'machine' which has been operating ever since you were not even born to this world yet! Take care of it so that our body can still be used in the many more years to come. And hopefully it will still be in good condition till the day it stops working. Insya Allah~

Till the next one~