ABSTRACT

This medicinal herb is the dried fungus Cordyceps sinensis (Berk) Sacc. of the family Hypocreaceae, which grows on the larva of caterpillars. It is usually found in mountains above 3,500 to 4,700 meters in the Gansu, Gueizhou, Hupei, Qinghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan, and Zhejiang provinces of China. It is also found in the mountain areas of Japan, France, the United States, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Holland, Australia, Norway, and Italy. Collected in late summer, it is cleaned and dried for use unprocessed (Dong et al., 1998; Song, 1995). https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203050040/86743b54-459f-4502-a9f1-33f21b13726a/content/figpg174_001_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>