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Pornatka LONGEVITY
Wolfiporia cocos
10:1 extract · 30% beta-glucans
A ritual for your morning drink: stir 2 teaspoons into coffee, cacao, tea or plant milk. Poria sclerotium, not a fruiting body or grain-grown mycelium, every batch tested.
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Accepted payments: BLIK, card, Apple Pay, Google PayA brownish-chestnut mass the size of a loaf of bread, underground and compact, with mealy, mildly sweet, neutral flesh and no trace of bitterness. It grows only in symbiosis with pine roots, hidden underground in the provinces of Fujian and Yunnan, maturing over two to three years. The longer it matures, the fuller and denser its sclerotium becomes.
How to use
Recommended daily serving: 1-2 g of powder (about 1/2 teaspoon) dissolved in your favourite drink. Pornatka has a sweetish-neutral taste, without bitterness, so it combines well in coffee, cacao, tea, plant milk or water. Five days a week, with a weekend break. We suggest a minimum of 90 days of consistency. Detailed advice and synergies with other mushrooms can be found in the Pornatka category description.
A 90-day ritual with pornatka. First days: you stir half a teaspoon of powder into your favourite drink, the sweetish-neutral taste dissolves well in coffee, cacao or plant milk, five days a week, with a weekend break. This is the stage where pornatka becomes a steady part of your day. First weeks: the supplementation finds its rhythm. Pornatka is a classic long-term mushroom, gentle, good as part of an everyday ritual and as a binder in a set with other mushrooms. You observe how your body responds and keep it calm.
A 90-day cycle: a full ninety days, the minimum that Eastern medicine gives for assessing a protocol. After the cycle you decide whether to continue, or to combine pornatka with other mushrooms in a wider set. Best done with someone who guides your supplementation. Consistency matters most; it is an everyday addition, not a one-off „shot". Do not exceed the recommended daily serving.
Not a cap, not mycelium. An underground mass the size of a loaf of bread, weighing from one to five kilograms, maturing two to three years in symbiosis with pine roots. In Chinese, Fu Ling, returning vitality. If any mushroom deserves the title of foundation of Chinese medicine, it is this one. Pornatka is the mushroom that does not shout. Fu Ling is in more than half of the classical formulas of traditional Chinese medicine. That is a rarity: most functional mushrooms appear in two or three recipes, pornatka is almost everywhere. In tradition it is shang yao, a superior herb, one of the gentlest and safest mushrooms we know, with an empirical base counted in millennia. In our portfolio it is a good first mushroom for cautious people. The raw material is the sclerotium, not the fruiting body. Dual extraction, testing of every batch at EUROFINS. A slightly sweet, neutral taste, without bitterness, easy to combine in drinks. This is where the competition writes what pornatka „does" to nerves, sleep or digestion. We leave it blank. Not because we have nothing to say, but because the law does not allow it. The rest is done by your 90 days of consistency, the minimum time we suggest to get to know functional mushrooms.
From Mateusz's clinic
In the clinic Fu Ling is the mushroom I have in almost every formula. It does not shout, it is not the star, it just binds the whole formula together and makes the rest work more calmly. In Chinese tradition it was indeed described in the context of calming the mind, but that is a frame of culture, not a promise that a supplement heals anything. These two things have to be kept apart. For me pornatka is the gentlest and one of the safest mushrooms in the whole portfolio, shang yao, a superior herb with a two-thousand-year history. That is why I often recommend it as a first mushroom to someone who is just starting out. Into this extract we put what is standard for us: sclerotium from certified cultivation, dual extraction, confirmation of the species, testing of every batch at EUROFINS, no fillers. The sweetish-neutral taste makes it easy to weave into an everyday ritual. Mateusz Rosa, doctor of acupuncture (title obtained in 2018), author of the books „Przebudzenie Zdrowia" and „Suplementacja grzybów funkcjonalnych".
Mateusz Rosa
Mateusz Rosa · Doctor of Acupuncture (WFAS), founder of Aloha Fungi
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Ingredients
50% dual water-alcohol extract 10:1 from the sclerotium of coconut pornatka (Wolfiporia cocos, synonym Poria cocos), 50% powdered sclerotium from the same source. Standardisation: a minimum of 30% beta-glucans in the extract. No maltodextrin or other carriers. Gluten-free, soy-free, vegan. Pack: 100 g of powder.
Storage
In a tightly closed package, in a dry, cool and dark place, preferably below 20 degrees Celsius. Triterpenoids are sensitive to oxidation, so protect from light and moisture. Keep away from children. After opening, use by the date on the package.
Precautions
Pornatka has one of the gentlest profiles among our products, but a few situations call for caution. People taking diuretic or blood-pressure medicines should consult a doctor before use. People taking sedative, sleep or antidepressant medicines (benzodiazepines, sleep aids, SSRIs, SNRIs, mirtazapine) should consult their treating physician about use. With medicines affecting glucose levels, monitoring is advised. Before planned surgery, stop use at least 14 days beforehand. Although in classical TCM Fu Ling was sometimes used in pregnancy under a therapist's supervision, for a concentrated extract there is insufficient research, so we do not recommend it in pregnancy and during breastfeeding without consultation. The product is not intended for people under 18.
Research
Most functional mushrooms are harvested as the fruiting body, that is, what grows above ground. Pornatka is different, like Polyporus. The raw material is the sclerotium, a massive underground structure weighing from one to five kilograms, maturing two to three years in symbiosis with pine roots. This is pornatka (Wolfiporia cocos, most often in the medical literature as Poria cocos), in Polish pornatka kokosowa. In the English tradition Indian bread, a little loaf, from the resemblance of the sclerotium to a loaf of bread.
Producer
We use the sclerotium of coconut pornatka from certified, controlled cultivation in the Fujian and Yunnan provinces, maturing in obligate symbiosis with pine roots; pornatka does not grow in the Polish climate, so the raw material always comes from cultivation. We confirm species identity by DNA barcoding, use dual extraction (water and alcohol), standardise to a minimum of 30% beta-glucans, and test every batch at the EUROFINS laboratory for, among other things, heavy metals and pesticide residues. The product is registered with the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate (GIS) in accordance with Polish food law.
Who it is for
This is the LONGEVITY line, the gentler version for daily, long-term supplementation. Pornatka is a classic long-term mushroom, a good „first mushroom" for people who are just starting out and want something gentle with a neutral taste. It is most often chosen by people who:
- are cautious and want to start with the gentlest, one of the safest mushrooms in our portfolio, a shang yao with a two-thousand-year history;
- prefer a raw material with a sweetish-neutral taste, without bitterness, easy to dissolve in coffee, cacao, tea, plant milk or water;
- are building a daily, long-term ritual and value a transparent, standardised composition (a minimum of 30% beta-glucans, every batch tested at EUROFINS);
- are looking for a binder mushroom for a wider set, because in Chinese tradition this is exactly the natural role of Fu Ling.
What sets us apart
What you really pay for when you buy Pornatka LONGEVITY powder
We work with sclerotium from certified, controlled cultivation, maturing in symbiosis with pine for two to three years. Sclerotium, not the fruiting body and not mycelium grown on grain. It is a slow-growing, massive raw material with an established, thousand-year position in tradition. In the 100 g pack: 50% dual water-alcohol 10:1 extract from the sclerotium (ten kilograms of raw material yield one kilogram of extract), 50% powdered sclerotium from the same source, standardisation to a minimum of 30% beta-glucans tested at EUROFINS for every batch, a sweetish-neutral taste without bitterness, no maltodextrin or other fillers.
What we mean by quality
The number on the label is impressive, but in the process the mushroom stops being a mushroom. What is left is a fragment, an isolate. Our rule is different. Five things have to be right before the extract goes into the pack. (1) Sclerotium from controlled cultivation: the raw material matures 2-3 years in symbiosis with pine in the Fujian and Yunnan provinces, not mycelium grown on grain, in which much of the mass is starch from the substrate. (2) A 10:1 dual extract from the sclerotium: ten kilograms of raw material yield one kilogram of extract, standardised to a minimum of 30% beta-glucans. (3) Dual water-and-alcohol extraction: hot water for pachyman and PCP polysaccharides, ethanol for the lipophilic lanostane triterpenoids with pachymic acid; a single medium would skip part of the profile. (4) Confirmed species identity: DNA barcoding and analysis of the monosaccharide profile, pachymic acid as the marker of species authenticity. (5) Testing of every batch at EUROFINS: an independent laboratory, heavy metals and a full pesticide panel for every batch. What the laboratory cannot measure, the body recognises anyway. That is why we do not choose between precision and fullness. We take both: the extract and the powdered sclerotium.
Where we source pornatka and who stands behind it
Pornatka grows only in symbiosis with pine roots, which makes its cultivation a multi-year process. It is an East Asian species, it does not occur in Poland, so the raw material always comes from controlled cultivation. Our sclerotia grow in the Fujian and Yunnan provinces, in symbiosis with pine, for two to three years. After they are dug up, they are sliced and dried at a low temperature, from forty to fifty degrees Celsius, and then move on to further production and testing stages, including confirmation of species identity. The extraction is run by our partner Yi. Twenty years in the field. He seeks a balance between the old way of working and the requirements of a modern laboratory: repeatability, standardisation, a certificate for every batch.
About the numbers we do not race over
Brands today race over who has the bigger number: a higher percentage of beta-glucans, a higher DER, a bigger „patented" something. We do not play that game. Standardisation to a minimum of 30% beta-glucans in the extract is our floor, verified in the lab. With pornatka, more interesting than a single number is that its profile combines pachyman from the water fraction and lanostane triterpenoids from the alcohol fraction, with pachymic acid serving as the marker of species authenticity. A single number will not convey that. Pornatka is living matter, every batch can be a little different. That is why we are not selling you a number, but a carefully selected extract, tested for every batch.
Why Aloha Fungi
Most cheap pornatka on the market is raw material of uncertain origin, often mycelium grown on grain. With us, sclerotium from certified, controlled cultivation, confirmed by DNA barcoding, a 10:1 dual extract, standardised for beta-glucans, every batch tested at EUROFINS, no maltodextrin or unnecessary fillers. An honest message: the TCM frame as culture, without promises „for nerves" or „for sleep". We test every batch in the renowned EUROFINS laboratory, with particular emphasis on purity: heavy metals (lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic) and pesticides (a multi-residue panel across a broad spectrum of compounds), and we confirm species identity by DNA barcoding ITS1/ITS2 and analysis of the monosaccharide profile. Every batch has an individual certificate, which we publish without retouching.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Classification in TCM
The most important fact about pornatka is cultural, not chemical. Fu Ling (茯苓), which is sometimes translated as returning vitality, is a foundational ingredient of traditional Chinese medicine, present in more than half of the classical Materia Medica formulas. That sets it apart from all other mushrooms: most appear in two or three recipes, Fu Ling is almost everywhere. It appears in classics such as Si Jun Zi Tang with ginseng, Wu Ling San together with Polyporus, or Liu Wei Di Huang Wan. In tradition it is understood as the binder of composite formulas, harmonising and supporting, rarely the main ingredient on its own. Pornatka is a foundation of the Chinese materia medica, described in the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, the oldest Chinese herbal, in the category of shang yao, the superior herbs. This is the tradition that Mateusz, the founder of Aloha Fungi and a Doctor of Acupuncture (WFAS), works with day to day.
The text below is a description of pornatka in the system of concepts of traditional Chinese medicine, developed over more than two millennia. It is not a scientific claim or a promise of a health effect. Concepts such as Spleen Qi, Shen or draining Dampness do not correspond one-to-one to Western anatomy or physiology. Treat this section as cultural context.
In Chinese tradition Fu Ling is shang yao, a superior herb, that is, the gentlest category of agents, intended for long, regular use. It was classically linked to supporting the Spleen, gently draining Dampness and calming Shen, that is, the mind, which tradition associated with the presence of choline and lecithin. This, however, is a cultural frame, not a description of how the product works. Concepts such as Dampness or Shen are categories of Chinese tradition and should not be translated one-to-one into Western medical categories. Energetic profile in TCM. Taste: sweetish-bland, neutral. Nature: neutral. Meridians: Heart, Spleen, Kidney, Lungs. The above is a description of the classification according to traditional Chinese medicine, not a claim about the health effect of the product. Individual tailoring of the protocol and mushrooms to your constitution during a free TCM consultation.
- Taste
- sweetish-bland, neutral
- Nature
- neutral
- Meridians
- Heart · Spleen · Kidney · Lungs
Cultural context, not a scientific claim or promise of effect.
90-day ritual
Three stages of one cycle
- 1
First days
1/2 teaspoon (1–2 g) of powder dissolved in your favourite drink. Five days a week, with a weekend break. Pornatka becomes a steady part of your day.
- 2
First weeks
You reach for it on autopilot, stirring it into coffee or cacao without a second thought. Its neutral taste makes the rhythm easy to keep.
- 3
A 90-day cycle
A full ninety days. In Eastern tradition, this is how much time you give yourself to observe any protocol or practice.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
Why do you say that Fu Ling is in more than half of TCM formulas?
Because that is how tradition and the literature describe it. Most functional mushrooms appear in two or three classical recipes. Fu Ling is foundational, estimated at more than half of the classical formulas of the Chinese Materia Medica. In tradition it is understood as the binder that harmonises and supports the whole formula.
Does pornatka calm you down or help with sleep?
We will not call it a remedy for nerves, anxiety or sleep. In Chinese tradition Fu Ling was described in the context of calming Shen, that is, the mind, but that is a cultural frame, not a promise of an effect. A food supplement cannot make such promises. If you take sedative or sleep medicines, consult a doctor about use.
What is a sclerotium and how does it differ from a fruiting body?
A sclerotium is a massive, underground structure of the mushroom, different from the fruiting body that grows above ground. In the case of pornatka it is the sclerotium that is the raw material, it matures two to three years and weighs from one to five kilograms. In our portfolio only pornatka and Polyporus have this kind of raw material.
What does pornatka taste like and what to combine it with?
The taste is sweetish-neutral, without bitterness, which sets it apart from many mushrooms. It dissolves well in coffee, cacao, tea, plant milk or water. About half a teaspoon a day is enough.
Why is pornatka a good first mushroom?
Because it has one of the gentlest profiles in our portfolio and a neutral taste. In tradition it is shang yao, a superior herb, intended for long, regular use. That is why it is often recommended to people who are just starting out with functional mushrooms.
Will pornatka help me with a specific condition?
Pornatka is a food supplement, not a medicine. We cannot promise an effect on specific conditions, because food law does not allow it. We can describe the Chinese tradition and the facts about the raw material. Specific health questions we direct to your treating doctor.
Can pornatka be combined with other mushrooms?
Yes, and in Chinese tradition this is precisely its natural role, as the binder of a set. It combines well in a wider protocol. It is best to put together a set during a free consultation, taking into account your needs and any medicines.
Is this raw material from a Polish forest?
No. Pornatka is an East Asian species and does not grow in the Polish climate, so raw material from a Polish forest does not exist. Our sclerotia come from certified, controlled cultivation in the Fujian and Yunnan provinces, in symbiosis with pine.
A food supplement does not replace a varied diet or a healthy lifestyle. This product is not a medicinal product. Do not exceed the recommended daily serving. Not for use during pregnancy, breastfeeding, or by children. If in doubt, consult a doctor or pharmacist.
Manufacturer / responsible person
- ALOHA WEALTH AND WELLNESS Sp. z o.o.
- Address:
- ul. Solec 81B/73A, 00-382 Warszawa, Polska
- Contact:
- aloha@alohafungi.com, tel. +48 781 521 131
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