The Introduction of Cordyceps

Cordyceps (scientific name: Cordyceps sinensis), also known as Chinese caterpillar fungus, also known as winter worm summer grass, called Cordyceps. Is a rare traditional Chinese herbal medicines, it blocks bacteria from the meat section head ergot fungus Cordyceps Cordyceps parasitic on the alpine meadow soil in the bat moth larvae, the larvae rigid, in appropriate conditions, stiff worms from the head end of the summer pumping give birth to a child seat and a long rod-like form (ie, the fruiting bodies of Cordyceps sinensis fungus sclerotia with stiff insects (larvae of the body) constitute the complex). It is mainly produced in China's Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Guizhou and other provinces and autonomous regions of the alpine zone and mountain grasslands. Cordyceps are truly wild, growing at an altitude of 3000-5000 meters high mountain meadow with shrubs near the snow line above the grass on the high requirements on the natural environment. Summer, insect eggs on the ground, after a month or so after hatching into larvae bore into the soft wet soil. A soil fungal invasion of the larvae, in larvae growth. After a winter to spring the second year, the growth of fungal mycelium began to grow in summer when the ground, look like a grass, so that the larvae of the Body and fungal hyphae together to form a complete "caterpillar fungus." Fungus spore to parasites as nourishment, rapid growth, the parasite is generally four to five centimeters, bacterial spores can be a long one day to the length of the worm, then the Cordyceps was called "first draft" the best quality; day fungus spore length to about twice the worm, known as the "second straw", quality second. As president of the roots after the rigid, so called Cordyceps sinensis. The results of modern research in pharmacology, Qinghai Cordyceps contains Cordyceps acid 7%, carbohydrate 28.9%, fat 8.4%, protein 25%, fat 82.2% unsaturated fatty acids, in addition, also contain vitamin B12, fat alcohols lysergic six carbon sugar alcohol, such as alkaloids. As the narrow geographical distribution of wild Cordyceps sinensis, low parasitic nature, demanding environmental conditions of life, so their more limited resources. In recent years, and because the main origin of the ecological environment of Cordyceps sinensis has been serious damage to human, resulting in a large number of blind unreasonable excavation of dwindling resources, production is declining.


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