Cordyceps- Medicinal Mushroom

Cordyceps There has been increasing interest in the health benefits of mushrooms since the commercial success in the far east of mushroom extracts as non-specific immune modulators in the treatment of cancer. Of these mushrooms one of the most interesting is Cordyceps sinensis. Cordyceps is known in Chinese as Dong Chong Xia Cao, which means Winter Insect, Summer Grass, and in the wild grows parasitically on the larvae of moths at altitudes of over 3,000m. For this reason it was historically an extremely rare and precious medicinal. Now,...

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