Cordyceps sinensis is a traditional Chinese precious Chinese medicine, people often say ‘three treasures for body tonic, ginseng, deer antler and Cordyceps’. Cordyceps has a sweet taste and flat nature, and has the effect of tonifying the lungs and kidneys, stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm. Qing Dynasty Wang Ang’s ‘Materia Medica’: ‘Cordyceps sinensis, sweet and flat, protect the lungs and kidneys, stop bleeding and phlegm, to stop labour cough. The one produced in Jiadingfu, Sichuan Province is good. Winter in the soil, shaped like an old silkworm, hair can move, to summer is the hair out of the soil, even the body into grass. If you do not take, to the winter again into the worm’.
Some people are accustomed to using the expensive Cordyceps to make up for the deficiency, treatment, in fact, never a flavour of Cordyceps can cure a hundred diseases, and even sometimes counterproductive, so please have experienced clinicians, or pharmacists according to the individual’s physique, after the diagnosis and treatment to improve or eliminate symptoms, enhance the ability to resist disease, prolong life. The term ‘tonic’ is used in relation to ‘deficiency’, and Chinese medicine is based on the therapeutic principle of ‘tonic for deficiency and diarrhoea for actuality’.
Here, we recommend the following people to use Cordyceps:
①Those who smoke, abuse alcohol, and take drugs for a long time.
② People who have high work pressure and are easily fatigued.
③ urban syndrome: low immune function, weakness, self-conscious aging too fast, easy to catch a cold, allergies.
④ Middle-aged and old people, lack of exercise, weak people.
⑤ All kinds of tumour patients.
⑥ Pneumonia, tuberculosis, emphysema, asthma, chronic bronchitis patients.
⑦ Acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis patients.
(8) People with myocarditis and arrhythmia.
(9) People with acute and chronic nephritis and kidney failure.
