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Ophiocordyceps Sinensis


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Product Introduction


  This product is a dried complex of the fruiting body and larval cadaver of Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.) Sacc., a fungus of the Clavicipitaceae family parasitizing on insect larvae of the Hepialidae family. The fruiting body is unearthed in early summer, before spore dispersal, sun-dried to about 60-70% dryness, and impurities and fiber-like attachments are removed. It is then dried completely or low-temperature dried.

[Nature and Flavor and Meridian Tropism]Sweet, neutral. 归肺、肾经。

[Functions and Indications]Tonify kidney and lung, stop bleeding, resolve phlegm. Used for kidney deficiency and essence depletion, impotence and seminal emission, soreness of the waist and knees, chronic cough and shortness of breath, and blood spitting from chronic cough.