Songi Mushroom Good for Health

Songi mushroom is a speciality of Korea along with wild insam and Koryo insam.

The mushroom contains crude protein, crude fat, crude fibre, coarse ash, carbohydrate, various kinds of essential amino acids and different vitamins including vitamin C, vitamin B group and vitamin E. And it also contains rich essential microelements including phosphorus and calcium good for health.

The fungus helps you strengthen the body harmoniously, digest food well and stop pain. And it is effective in checking viruses, decreasing cholesterol in blood, modulating immunity and promoting urination.

The mushroom grows in clusters and widely spreads forming groups in certain areas in autumn on the soil into which granite, quartz trachyte, sandstone and quartzite disintegrate, the sunny and sterile soil of pine forests with poor humus in which water drains well and that of mixed forests of pines and broadleaf trees.

As it is peculiar in fragrance and uncommonly tasty, the mushroom can be used raw. Its powder is used as spices. And it can be pickled with salt, canned or processed in other ways.