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What you need to know about cordyceps - Ingredients, uses and origin

Currently, cordyceps has become very popular with diverse prices to suit the needs of many people. So what are cordyceps and what special uses do they have? Let's explore all the things you don't know about cordyceps with Dr Trung.

1. What is cordyceps?

Cordyceps is also known in English as Cordyceps. This is a rare medicinal herb in nature and is essentially a parasitic form of the fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis on the larval bodies of some butterflies.

The reason why this medicinal herb is called cordyceps is because it comes from the actual observation process. In winter, spores of fungi of the genus Cordyceps infect and parasitize the larval bodies of caterpillars, which at this time are in the form of worm larvae. Over time, the fungus will suck nutrients from the larvae to grow and gradually kill the worm larvae. In summer, the fruiting body of the fungus grows and rises out of the ground, at this time they are half deep, half is mushroom. It is because of this feature that the name cordyceps was born.

In fact, when the cordyceps grows to the harvest period, the host is a dead worm larva. Therefore, this is actually a fungus, not an animal or a plant.

2. The uses of Cordyceps

• Restore health, increase muscle flexibility.

• Increase the body's immunity, resistance to viruses such as hepatitis B, TB, AIDS. • Protect the system, resist the deterioration, restore the cells.

• Protect, treat common diseases, life, asthma, respiratory failure, daily cough symptoms.

• Protect the heart, maintain the heart rate, lower the pressure.

• Support blood sugar control, diabetes control.

• Support cancer treatment with Cordycepin, support for patients with radiation therapy.

• Increase physiological function, support infertility treatment

3. Ingredient

• Chemical analyses show that in the biochemistry of cordyceps there are 17 different amino acids, there are D-mannitol, there are lipids, there are many micronutrients (Al, S,i K, Na, etc.). Many of these active substances have high value. In which, cordiceptic acid, cordycepin, adenosine, hydroxyethyl-adenosin must be mentioned. More notable than the active group HEAA (Hydroxy-Etyl-Adenosin- Analogs). Cordyceps also contains many vitamins (in 10 g of cordyceps there are 0.12 g of vitamin B12; 29.19 mg of vitamin ; A 116.03 mg of vitamin ,C in addition to vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin , E vitamin K.).

• The activity of cordycepin in cordyceps has the effect of increasing the function of immunity, anti-cancer, high resistance to disease, the growth of the cordyceps, the problem, the defeat of the disease, and it is also proven to be effective in the infection of causing the skin in the human. Besides, cordycepin also has anti-viral activity that is strongly equivalent to the ability to block viruses that cause encephalitis, HIV, RNA type.

• Adenosine is a nucleoside that is born in the cells of the human body. This activity is proven by the ability to reduce biological processes in the human body including: protecting the heart and the functions of the urine, dilating blood vessels. The chemical structure of adenosine àl 6-amino-9-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-9-H-purine. Adenosine contains the effects of superior medicine that have been recorded by modern medicine such as: reduced blood flow in the system and filtration of the blood vessels, reducing the pressure of the central vessels, having a pulse in the near, reducing the economy and reducing dopaminergic activity in the central nervous system,.

• Stabulate blood pressure, support treatment and prevent cardiovascular diseases: According to experts, Adenosine has blood vessels in every cell in the human body while participating in all our life activities. This activity is involved in the regulation of the heart rate, restores the disturbance and heart rate, improves the peripheral and cardiovascular circulation, and increases the amount of oxygen in the blood. In addition, adenos- ine is also recorded with the ability to stop excessive urine, while limiting the condition and preventing blood vessels such as: myocardial blood vessels, cerebral blood vessels, poor blood circulation.

• Maintain the process of circulation, increase oxygenation in the blood: Adenosin contained in cordyceps helps increase the amount of oxygen in the blood, supports the dilation of blood vessels, provides oxygen for the body's blood circulation.

• Improve health: Adenosine and other components in cordyceps have the ability to provide energy and necessary nutrients to help maintain the life activities of the body to restore health as well as new people.

• Improve fertility: Adenosine has a positive effect in improving the circulation and blood flow of blood clots of the body, in addition, this activity can reduce the content of prostaglandin in the body and other symptoms, the nerves of the nervous system of the reproductive function.

• Neurological stability: This activity helps to stablize the spirit, relieve stress, fatigue, reduce headaches, dizziness, support the activity of the nervous system. Besides, . Adenosine helps to improve the snification of sleep, helping us to have deep, stable sleep through the use of stable and anti-nutrient gas. According to the results of research around the world, Adenosine is recorded with the effect of reducing the stimulation of nerves, this activity has an unusund low in the patients with economic contractions while reducing the contractions of this disease when experimenting on the test.

• The active substance adenosine in cordyceps is recorded with a fairly high content. Because, the use of cordyceps will help the body absorb the substances while collecting the positive values of adenosine for human health.

4. How to preserve

Fresh cordyceps: Used in 10 days in the fridge. Used 3 months  in the freezer. 

Dried cordyceps: Used for 01 year. Store in a cool, dry place, away from light, including light. Note: In case of allergic to the bath, please be careful before use. In cases of bleeding injuries should not be used.

5. Using methods

Method 1: Using with honey

Soak fresh cordyceps 100g in 300ml of pure bee powder for about 7 days, after the above period of time can be used every day from 15-20ml before breakfast 1 an hour.

Note: Only soak the fruit, do not soak the whole body. The bee plate chooses a light color, the water composition <21%

Usage: Asthma, long-term cough, stimulates the pepper, cleans the nicotine in the common for smokers a lot. 

 

Method 2: Making wine

Soak Cordyceps 25gr (can be soaked with a whole body) in 1 liter of white wine for about 30 days, after the above period of time can be used every day for 50ml.

Uses: Treat back pain, positive pain, stimulate digestion, increase resistance.

Method 3: Cooking porridge, bird's nest, stew with food

For those who are newly sick or in the process of being treated and need to supplement their health, cordyceps should be combined during eating to be easy to use and easily absorbed. Besides, cordycep is a benign medicinal herb, so it can be combined with all other foods and supplements.

Uses: Helps with air circulation, specializes in the treatment of lack of blood, positive ejaculation, nighttime ejaculation, back and head pain, women with menstrual cramps, coughing and foulness, anti-aging, skin beauty.

Method 4: Making tea

Making tea is the simplest and most common use of cordyceps, suitable for almost everyone. Tea is suitable to drink in the morning, before and after eating.

After putting 100 degrees of boiling water to Cordyceps for about 5 minutes, it can be used. For the best, it should be kept in a thermos for 2-8 hours and eat the whole part of the frozen mycelium.