One person would get cold sores/fever blisters with slight fever or illness, now after taking AHCC consistently he has not gotten one again (1 year)
One person had a cold sore usually takes 2 weeks to heal. Started drinking reishi tea and cold sore was gone in two days.
Looks like AHCC and reishi both help keep cold sores/fever blisters away.
Possible mode of antiviral activity of acidic protein bound polysaccharide isolated from Ganoderma lucidum on herpes simplex viruses
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037887410000266X
Possible mode of action of antiherpetic activities of a proteoglycan isolated from the mycelia of Ganoderma lucidum in vitro
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874104003460
An Evidence-Based Systematic Review of Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC) by the Natural Standard Research Collaboration Read More:
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/19390211.2013.822631