Cordyceps Sinensis, an Important Chinese Medicine

Cordyceps Sinensis is also called Plantworms or Entomophyte. It is a famous nutritious Chinese medicine, mainly living in Tibet Plateau.
In summer, worms produce their eggs which will hatch into larvae in one month. The larvae is to drilling into the ground with wet and soft soil. There is certain mycete which invades into the larvae and absorbs the larvae’s nutrients for its own growth. As a winter has passed, the mycete begins to grow hypha in spring, which will stretch out of ground with appearance of grass in next summer. This kind of grass composes of the outer form of the larvae and hyphas of mycete. With the help of nutrients offered by larvae, hyphas grow quickly. On the first day, its length can increase 4 mm to 5 mm equal to the length of the larvae. At this moment, Cordyceps Sinensis has the best quality.
Along with ginseng and cartialgenous, Cordyceps Sinensis is one of three best nutritious Chinese medicines. In clinic practice, it is used as assistant medicine in treating severe cancer, like lung cancer, leukemia, nose caner and so on. As it has a great effect in easing edema, high blood pressure, strengthening immunity, anticoagulation, dilating blood vessels etc. it is used to treat Kidney Failure and prolong lifespan.
Women tend to have it to maintain beauty and keep young. There goes a story about Cordyceps Sinensis. Wu Zetian, the queen of Tang Dynasty, was ill severe, coughing persistently in her old age. Having had many medicines prescribed by imperial physicians, she did not turn better, which is worried by all officers in the palace. A cook though of a dish in his hometown used to replenish nutrients. The dish is made by boiling chicken with Cordyceps Sinensis. Considering chicken may cause the queen’s old diseases reoccurring, the cook replaced chicken by duck. At first, he directly put Cordyceps Sinensis and duck together to boil, but the dish is hard to eat for Cordyceps Sinensis floated on the surface of the soup and made people felt sick. Then he squashed Cordyceps Sinensis in to the body of the duck before boiling. To every one’s surprise, the queen enjoined this dish and her medical conditions turned better one month later. The queen was very pleasant and put this dish on her imperial banquet.
Besides cooked into a dish, Cordyceps Sinensis can be drunk as tea or be grinded into powder eaten orally. However, it must be assured to be sanitary.

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