猴头菌在我国分布较广,黑龙江、吉林、内蒙、山西、河北、河南、四川、浙江、广西等省均有分布,多系野生。原为我国著名的一种食用菌,肉嫩,味鲜,历来享有“山珍”之誉。由于野生多受自然环境和气候条件限制,以及它已日渐广泛地用于医药,用量大大增加,为满足临床用药的需要,现在除采集野生者外,已将它从野生变为人工培养。猴头菌以子实体或菌丝体入药,主要含 Hericium is widely distributed in China, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guangxi and other provinces are distributed, more than the Department of wild. Formerly known as a edible mushroom, tender, delicious, has always enjoyed the “Shanzhen” reputation. Due to its natural environment and climatic conditions, as well as its increasingly widespread use in medicine, the dosage has been greatly increased. In order to meet the needs of clinical medicine, it has now been changed from wild to artificial cultivation except for wild animals. Hericium fruiting bodies or mycelium into medicine, mainly containing