Can Cordyceps be soaked with wolfberry?

Cordyceps sinensis is a relatively common herbal plant with high medicinal value. It can nourish yin and tonify the kidney, and has a good health care effect on the body. It can also tonify the kidney. Lycium barbarum is a common medicine in daily life. Lycium barbarum and Cordyceps sinensis can be soaked in water together and drunk, which can have a health care effect and is very good for the body.

Can Cordyceps sinensis be soaked with wolfberry?

They can be soaked together, both are kidney-tonifying Chinese medicinal materials and can be used together. The kidney-tonifying effect of Cordyceps sinensis is much stronger than that of wolfberry. Therefore, the amount of Cordyceps sinensis used when soaking in water should be less, 0.5-1 gram at a time, while wolfberry can be used 5-10 grams at a time.

Morphological characteristics:

Cordyceps sinensis is composed of the insect body and the fungus base connected, with a total length of 9 to 12 cm. The body of the insect is like an old silkworm that has rested for three days, about 3 to 6 cm long and 0.4 to 0.7 cm thick. The appearance is dark yellow and rough, with many transverse wrinkles on the back. There are 8 pairs of legs on the ventral side, and the 4 pairs located in the middle of the insect body are clearly visible.

The interior of the cross section is solid, white, slightly yellowish, and the periphery is dark yellow. The colony grows from the head of the insect body, is rod-shaped, curved, and slightly swollen at the top. The surface is gray-brown or black-brown, up to 4 to 8 cm long and about 0.3 cm in diameter. When broken, the inside is empty and pink-white. Slight odor, light taste. The best ones are those with bright yellow body color, plump and large body, yellow-white cross-section and short mushroom seat.

Pharmacological effects of Cordyceps sinensis:

A: Effects on the circulatory system

(1) Effects on the heart

Cordyceps sinensis has the effects of negative frequency, reducing myocardial oxygen consumption, improving myocardial ischemia, anti-platelet aggregation and anti-arrhythmia. Cordyceps alcohol extract has a significant protective effect on acute viral myocarditis.

(2) Effects on the blood system

Cordyceps sinensis has a significant protective effect on thrombocytopenia and damage to the platelet ultrastructure, and has a significant antihypertensive effect on sodium pentobarbital anesthesia. Cordyceps water extract has a strong function of dilating coronary arteries and increasing coronary flow. Cordyceps extract can promote platelet aggregation and play a hemostatic role, and its alcohol extract can inhibit thrombosis.

B: Effects on the respiratory system

Cordyceps sinensis can significantly enhance the bronchodilating effect of adrenaline, regulate bronchial smooth muscles, alleviate symptoms of chronic bronchitis, asthma, emphysema, cor pulmonale and other diseases in the elderly, and delay recurrence time. At the same time, cordycepin has a strong inhibitory and killing effect on bacteria that cause lung infections, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and cordycepic acid and cordyceps polysaccharides can repair damaged alveolar cells.

C: Effects on the immune system

Including the following aspects:

(1) It has a bidirectional regulatory effect on humoral immune function, either enhancing or weakening it;

(2) It can enhance the phagocytic function of macrophages and improve the body's immune function;

(3) It affects the weight of immune organs by promoting the biosynthesis of spleen DNA, increasing the content of nucleic acids and proteins, and promoting the proliferation of spleen lymphocytes;

(4) Enhances the activity of natural killer cells, thus playing an important role in anti-cancer and anti-viral infection.