Chinese Caterpillar Fungus
Cordyceps
Dong Chong Xia Cao

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sweet; calm

Part(s) used

A drug consisting of dried fungal stroma growing on larva of a caterpillar

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To tonify the lung and the kidney, arrest bleeding, and dispel phlegm.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Impotence and emission, neurasthenia, backache, aching in lumbus and knees, enduring cough and vacuity asthma, taxation damage hemoptysis.