Is Cordyceps sinensis a cordyceps or a grass?

Cordyceps sinensis is a fungus, not a worm or a grass, this fungus is called Cordyceps fungus, which is mainly parasitic in the larvae of bat moths, absorbing the nutrients of the larvae for growth and development.

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Aweto. Also known as Cordyceps, it is a valuable Chinese medicinal material. In fact, it is neither an insect nor a grass, but a combination of a fungus and an insect.

In late autumn and early winter, when the larvae of some insects lurk in the soil for the winter, some fungi will stick to the larvae, germinate hyphae in the body of the worm, and absorb the nutrients of the larvae. When the larvae are eaten up and only the empty shell remains, a large amount of hyphae fills the body and forms sclerotia. In the summer of the following year, the sclerotia grew from the head of the shell like a bare grass, hence the name "Cordyceps".

To put it simply, it's a grass that has been invaded by bugs. Not an animal, a plant.

It is non-insect and non-grass, and belongs to fungi and algae organisms.

Cordyceps sinensis is a fungus that parasitizes the larvae of Cordyceps moth in winter and develops in summer. Hence the name Cordyceps.

Cordyceps sinensis has sedative, anticonvulsant, cooling and other effects on the central nervous system, and has an enhanced effect on humoral immune function, water or alcohol extract of Cordyceps sinensis can significantly inhibit the growth of tumors such as sarcoma in mice, Cordyceps fungus fermentation broth can resist the ST segment changes of myocardial deficiency in rabbits, and Cordyceps fungus also has a certain protective effect on stress myocardial infarction in rats.

Is Cordyceps sinensis a cordyceps or a grass? Star Awareness Project

Insects in winter and grass in summer.

Cordyceps sinensis is not an insect or a grass, but a fungus.

In summer, on the plateau meadows at high altitudes, the adult bat moth will let the eggs of the insects be laid on the ground, hatch into larvae and burrow into the soil, and the ascospores of the winter sloppy worm in the soil take the opportunity to invade the larvae, continue to grow in the larvae, fully absorb the nutrients of the larvae, continue to germinate hyphae and the larvae will die, and the skin sac of the insect body is gradually filled with mycelium, that is, "winter worm".

After a winter, in the spring and summer of the following year, the mycelium begins to grow, and from the mouth or head of the dead larvae, a purple-red, baseball-shaped new life grows and breaks through the soil, known as "summer grass".

It can be seen that Cordyceps sinensis is not a worm or a grass, but a complex of fungi that parasitize the larvae such as the larvae and their host, the bat moth (sclerotia), and is still a fungus in nature.

Cultivation techniques

The key to Cordyceps sinensis inoculation is to select the larval stage where the host insect has weak antibacterial activity, especially the period when the molting and feeding activities are intense and the friction damage rate is high. When the bat moth larvae are raised to 4-6 instars, and there are more than 2 3 larvae molting, the larvae are concentrated. During inoculation, a concentrated spore suspension was made from the spores of Cordyceps sinensis.

Spray evenly onto the larvae with a sprayer and spray 2 times a day for a total of 3 days. When in captivity in the wild, spraying should be carried out on cloudy days or when the sun sets, or around 8 p.m., when not only the ultraviolet rays are weaker, but the larvae are more active.

In order to increase the infection rate, the mycelium or spores of Cordyceps sinensis can also be mixed into the food of the larvae to increase the chance of contact with infection. The larvae infected with Cordyceps sinensis slowly die and eventually ossify.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Cordyceps.