Cordyceps sinensis is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine, and its growth is very strange: Cordyceps sinensis fungi infect bat moth larvae, making them sick, stiff and dead. In the spring and summer of the following year, grass stems grow on the head of the larvae, so it is a complex of insects and bacteria. Cordyceps sinensis looks like a silkworm (fungus larva complex) with a stalk (daughter) on its head. The grass stems are dark yellow, and the worms are reddish brown or dark brown. The length of grass stems is 2 to 8 cm. The worm body is 3-6 cm long and 0.3-0.7 cm in diameter, with dense ring lines on the surface, 8 pairs of feet under the body, and 4 pairs of feet in the middle are more obvious; Fragile and easy to break, with milky white or yellow-white fibrous section; Aromas of straw mushrooms and mushrooms; Light or slightly sweet, sticky. Because of the low yield and high price of Cordyceps sinensis, there are many counterfeiters. Careful observation is not difficult to tell: the grass stems are separated from the worms, and the worms have no feet or only three pairs. The feet are dense, brown and thin, hard and chewy, and have the smell of flour and gypsum, which may be fakes. Cordyceps sinensis has the effects of strengthening body constitution, prolonging life, resisting anoxia, reducing blood fat, resisting bacteria and removing toxic substances, calming the nerves, regulating immunity, relieving asthma and eliminating phlegm, resisting cancer, and enhancing cardiovascular, blood, liver and kidney functions. It is often used to treat senile asthenia, asthma due to phlegm retention, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, impotence and nocturnal emission, soreness of waist and knees, chronic debility after illness, etc. Cordyceps sinensis can be eaten all year round, especially in winter. Usually, take 3 grams to 10 grams orally, or take pills or powder, or soak in wine, make soup or cook porridge, and take it with residue in any way. For example: 1. Put 50g glutinous rice and appropriate amount of rock sugar into a casserole and add water to cook porridge. Grind 5g Cordyceps sinensis into powder, add it evenly and cook for a while. 2. Viscerate an old duck, wash it, cut it into pieces, put it in a casserole, and add Cordyceps sinensis 10g, yellow wine, salt, clear soup, etc. Simmer for 2-3 hours. 3. Cut the soft-shelled turtle into large pieces, cook it in a pot, take it out and put it in a soup bowl. Add 10g Cordyceps sinensis, red dates, cooking wine, salt, onion slices, ginger slices, garlic slices and chicken soup, steam it in a cage for two hours, take it out and pick out onion and ginger.
Cordyceps sinensis is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine, and its growth is very strange: Cordyceps sinensis fungi infect bat moth larvae, making them sick, stiff and dead. In the spring and summer of the following year, grass stems grow on the head of the larvae, so it is a complex of insects and bacteria. Cordyceps sinensis looks like a silkworm (fungus larva complex) with a stalk (daughter) on its head. The grass stems are dark yellow, and the worms are reddish brown or dark brown. The length of grass stems is 2 to 8 cm. The worm body is 3-6 cm long and 0.3-0.7 cm in diameter, with dense ring lines on the surface, 8 pairs of feet under the body, and 4 pairs of feet in the middle are more obvious; Fragile and easy to break, with milky white or yellow-white fibrous section; Aromas of straw mushrooms and mushrooms; Light or slightly sweet, sticky. Because of the low yield and high price of Cordyceps sinensis, there are many counterfeiters. Careful observation is not difficult to tell: the grass stems are separated from the worms, and the worms have no feet or only three pairs. The feet are dense, brown and thin, hard and chewy, and have the smell of flour and gypsum, which may be fakes. Cordyceps sinensis has the effects of strengthening body constitution, prolonging life, resisting anoxia, reducing blood fat, resisting bacteria and removing toxic substances, calming the nerves, regulating immunity, relieving asthma and eliminating phlegm, resisting cancer, and enhancing cardiovascular, blood, liver and kidney functions. It is often used to treat senile asthenia, asthma due to phlegm retention, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, impotence and nocturnal emission, soreness of waist and knees, chronic debility after illness, etc. Cordyceps sinensis can be eaten all year round, especially in winter. Usually, take 3 grams to 10 grams orally, or take pills or powder, or soak in wine, make soup or cook porridge, and take it with residue in any way. For example: 1. Put 50g glutinous rice and appropriate amount of rock sugar into a casserole and add water to cook porridge. Grind 5g Cordyceps sinensis into powder, add it evenly and cook for a while. 2. Viscerate an old duck, wash it, cut it into pieces, put it in a casserole, and add Cordyceps sinensis 10g, yellow wine, salt, clear soup, etc. Simmer for 2-3 hours.