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Auricularaia auricular (L. ex Hook) Underw.
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English Name |
Jew's Ear, |
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Latin name |
Auricularaia auricular (L. ex Hook) Underw. |
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Family & Genus |
Auriculariaceae, Auricularia |
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Description |
Fruiting body clustered, long imbricate superposed, usually multiple clustered thallus. Auricular or nearly cup-shaped, margin sinuate, red-brown, thin, 2-6cm wide, the largest up to 12cm, ca. 2mm thick, pleurogenous short stalk or narrow base fixative on stroma. First as soft translucent colloid, viscous and elastic, then slightly with cartilaginous, strongly contractive after drying, becomes black, hard and brittle horn to nearly leathery. Outside and back arch, purple-brown to dark cyan-grey, sparsely pubescent. Pubescent upwards acuminate, base brown, acute end nearly sessile, (115-135) μmx(5-6) μm. Inside concave, smooth or slightly with veinlike wrinkles, black-brown to brown. Bacterial context make up of lock-shaped joint hypha, ca. 2-3.5μm thick. Fruiting body layer borne inside, made up of basidium, basidiospores and paraphysis. Basidium long-cylindrical, sepultate at colloid layer on fruiting body, 60-70μm long, ca. 6μm thick, diaphragm prominent. Spores borne on basidium, reniform, colorless, (9-15) μmx(4-7) μm; conidiophores nearly spherical to ovate, (11-15) μmx(4-7) μm, colorless, usually borne on fruiting body. |
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Distribution |
Growing in rotten broadleaved woods, such as oak, elm, poplar and locust tree, etc. Distributed and cultivated artificially in all parts of China. The medicinal materials are mainly produced in Sichuan and Fujian. Also produced in other parts of China. |
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Part Used |
Medical part: sporocarp, Jew’s Ear parasitized on tricuspid cudrania or Janpanese Weigela. Chinese name: Muer (sporocarp), Zhier (Jew’s Ear parasitized on tricuspid cudrania), Ynagluer (Jew’s Ear on Janpanese Weigela). |
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Harvest & Processing |
Mu'er: collected in summer and autumn and dried in oast house, temperature level up from 35 ℃ to 60 ℃ and dried for standby application. Zhe Er (Jew's Ear parasitized on tricuspid cudrania): collected in summer and autumn, well washed and sun-dried. Yang Lu Er (Jew's Ear on Japanese Weigela): collected in summer and autumn, well washed and sun-dried. |
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Chemistry |
Mu'er contains sporocarp contain agaric polysaccharide. Mycelium contains exopolysaccharide, ergosterol, provitamin D2 and ustilaginoidin, etc. |
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Pharmacology |
Mu’er: antithrombin, entithrombus, anti-platelet aggregation, leukocyte-increasing, immunity-enhancing, the synthesis of nucleic acid and protein enhancing, blood-fat-reducing, senility-delaying, anti-radiation, anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, blood-sugar-reducing, anti-breeding, anti-cancer and antibacteria; toxic. |
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Properties & Actions |
Agaric: taste sweet, neutral in nature. Agaric of Cudrania tricuspidata: taste sweet, neutral in nature. Agaric of Yanglu: taste little sweet, neutral in nature.Jew's ear: tonifying qi, enriching blood, moistening lung, checking cough, arresting bleeding, reducing hypertension, anti-cancer. Zhe Er (Jew's Ear parasitized on tricuspid cudrania): clearing lung, detoxifying, removing phlegm and checking cough. Yang Lu Er (Jew's Ear on Japanese Weigela): dissipating stasis and arresting bleeding. |
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Indications & Usage |
Judas-ear: Used for deficiency of vital energy and hemophthisis, pulmonasthenia due to long term cough, coughing up blood, non-traumatic hemorrhage, hematodiarrhoea, piles and hemorrhage, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, hypertension, subhyaloid hemorrhage, cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, injury pain from fall. Auricularia: Mainly indicated for cough and vomiting of pus and blood due to pulmonary abscesses, dry cough due to pulmonary dryness. Jew's ear on Japanese weigela: Mainly indicated for ecchymosis and hemagglutinin, abdominal masses, piles and hemorrhage.Mu’er: oral administration: decocting, 3-10g; or stewed; burned and half carbonized, keep the flavor, powdered. Zhi’er: oral administration: decocting, 9-12g, or made as pills or powders. Yanglu’er: oral administration: decocting, 10-12g, or stewed. |
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Examples |
Jew's Ear:
1. Dry stool, hemorrhage due to hemorrhoids: jew's ear 5g, persimon cake 30g, cooked together, and eat.
2. Hypertension: jew's ear 15g, pidan 1, cook in water, and frequently drink to replace tea.
3. All toothaches: jew's ear and catnip of equal amounts. Decoct and gargle to stop pain.
Auricularia:
Pulmonary dry heat, dry cough, red tongue with less coat: auricularia, white jew's ear and crystal sugar 10g each, stew with clear water and eat once daily.
Jew's ear on Japanese weigela:
Hepatic and splenic mass: Jew's ear on Japanese weigela 10g, Prickly-pear (remove prickles) 12g, pig spleen and intestinal tract, stew soup and drink. |
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