Cordyceps sinensis

[ source ]" Materia Medica" from New
[ ] Pinyin name Dō n Chó n Xià Cǎ o
[ alias ] winter worm summer grass (" Qian capsule" ), (" Chinese materia medica." ).
[ source ] for the clavicipitaceae plant of Cordyceps sinensis stroma and host hepialidae insect of Cordyceps bat moth larvae of the complex body. Around the summer solstice, when the snow has not melted into the collection, the stroma many exposed on the snow surface, too late, snow melt, the growth of weeds, not easy to find, and earth worm wither, different medicinal. Digging in the insect body wet, dry, removes the outer earth and tunic, dried. Or with wine spray to soft, finishing straight, every 7～ 8with red ties or use slow fire to dry.
[ ] the original morphology
Ascomycetes of stroma by host larvae in the head, solitary, slender as a baseball bat shape, grow 4 ～11 centimeters; sterile handle minister in 3~ 8cm, diameter 1.5 ～4 mm; the upper seat head, slightly inflated, cylindrical in shape, grow 1.5 ～4 centimeters, brown, except apex small department, dense most perithecia; perithecia of into the stroma, apex projected in the stroma, ovate or elliptic, grow 250 ～500 microns in diameter,80 to200 microns, each ascus shell has a plurality of elongated linear ascus; each ascus has 8having a diaphragm ascospores.
The host for the Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, insect larvae, winter hyphae invade secluded in soil of the larval body, make the body full of hyphae and death. Summer long out of stroma. Distribution of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet and other places.
[ ] production of Sichuan habitat, Qinghai, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan to yield maximum. In addition, Tibet, Gansu also produce.
[ character ] Cordyceps worms and fungi are formed, a total length of 9to 12 cm. Parasites such as three sleep old silkworm, ca. 3cm to 6 cm thick, about 0.4~ 0.7cm. The appearance of dark yellow, rough, the back has a plurality of transverse wrinkles, ventral foot8, is located in the middle of the4worm visible. Section heart is full, white, slightly yellow, peripheral show deep yellow. Bacteria seat from worms head out, is a rod, bending, slightly dilated upper. Surface grayish brown or dark brown, long and up to 4~ 8cm, ca. 0.3cm. Break the heart is empty, powder white. Stinky micro, mild. The body color Huang Liang, Fengman mast, yellow-white section, a short bacteria is preferred.
[ ] the chemical composition of water containing10.84%, fat 8.4%,25.32% crude protein, crude fiber 18.53%, carbohydrate28.90%, ash 4.10%. Fat saturated fatty acid 13%,82.2% unsaturated fatty acids. In addition, also containing Cordyceps acid about 7%, quinine acid isomers. Contains cordycepin, is a pale yellow crystalline powder, can inhibit in vitro streptococcal, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Bacillus anthracis, pig hemorrhagic septicemia in coli and Staphylococcus aureus growth. Other vitamin B120.29micrograms / 100grams.
Taste [ ]
Gan, wen.
①" Materia Medica": from the new Gan, ping.
The" resistance": a sweet, warm.
③Materia Medica":" the new small drug.
The" Qinghai medicine" : sweet acid, flat, aroma.
[ ] to the" new" materia medica: into the lung, kidney two by.
[ indications ]
Complement deficiency, Yi Qi, phlegm cough. Treating phlegm cough, dyspnea, cough, hemoptysis, tuberculosis, spontaneous sweating, impotence, aching pain of waist and knees, long weakness after illness complex.
①" Materia Medica": from the new lung and kidney, resolving phlegm and cough hemostasis, has been.
②" resistance test": Secretary precision Yiqi, nourishing life gate for.
The Orange Park" small knowledge": to wine flooding several taste, waist pain treatment between, beneficial kidney function.
The" schema": Pan Youxin cloud governance gleaning diaphragm disease, Sukane Jiwoonji tympanites.
The" Modern Practical Traditional Chinese medicine" : application to pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic cough and asthma in the elderly debilitated, hematemesis, night sweats, spontaneous perspiration; and for anemia, weakness, impotence, elderly chills, tear out my card.
The" Chinese herbal medicine in Yunnan:" tonifying the lung, Zhuang yang. Treatment of asthma and cough sputum time.
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,1.5～ 3money; or into the pill, powder.
[ note ]" Sichuan Journal of Chinese Materia Medica" : a table and caution.
[ ] a party
①after treating a disease deficiency: winter worm summer grass in three, five, and old male duck a, go haslet, will duck head split, nano medicine in, still tied to the line, wine and soy sauce steaming rotten food. (" compendium of gleaning" )
The treatment of dyspnea: aweto five money to one or two, with the old male duck steamed. (" Chinese medicinal herbs of Yunnan." )
③cure anemia, impotence, spermatorrhea: aweto five money to one or two, meat or chicken. (" Chinese medicinal herbs of Yunnan." )
[ ]" * dictionary" excerpt

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