Cordyceps sinensis, the name of traditional Chinese medicine, is a compound of Cordyceps sinensis, a fungus belonging to the genus Cordyceps of ergotaceae, which is parasitic on the larvae and larval bodies of insects of the family Hymenoptera. It has the effects of tonifying kidney and lung, stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm, and is mainly used for treating impotence, nocturnal emission, soreness of waist and knees, chronic cough and asthma and expectoration. Cordyceps sinensis, also known as Cordyceps sinensis, is a strange thing that insects and grass grow together. In summer, insects lay eggs on flowers and leaves of grass.

It has sedative, anticonvulsant and cooling effects on central nervous system, and enhances humoral immune function. The water or alcohol extract of Cordyceps sinensis can obviously inhibit the growth of sarcoma and other tumors in mice, and the fermentation broth of Cordyceps sinensis can resist the st segment changes of myocardial ischemia in rabbits. Cordyceps sinensis also has a certain protective effect on stress myocardial infarction in rats, and its water extract has obvious protective effect on acute renal failure in rats.