• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.280-284
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• 2017

Lion's Mane Mushroom, Hericium erinaceum, is a traditional edible mushroom widely used in culinary applications. It has been also used as a medicine in East Asian countries due to its various biological activities. Chemical investigation of fruiting bodies of this mushroom afforded many aromatic compounds, which were mostly isolated from polar fraction of its extracts. Herein we tried to investigate non-polar compounds from the extracts of this mushroom. $CHCl_3$-soluble fraction of the extracts was subjected to chemical investigation, which resulted in isolation of four compounds. Their chemical structures were elucidated as ircicerebroside (1), cortenuamide A (2), 1-D-arabinitol-monolinoleate (3), and cinnamic acid (4) on the basis of spectroscopic data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of compounds 1, 2, and 4 from Hericium erinaceum.