Judging from the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, Cordyceps sinensis is sweet and warm, and has the functions of tonifying kidney and lung, stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm. For kidney deficiency and essence deficiency, impotence and nocturnal emission, soreness of waist and knees, chronic cough and asthma, cough and hemoptysis. Cordyceps sinensis also has sex hormone-like effect, which can prevent estrogen deficiency in ovariectomized osteoporosis rats. Cordyceps sinensis can also lower blood pressure, reduce negative frequency, resist arrhythmia, scavenge free radicals, and resist platelet aggregation. Cordyceps sinensis can reduce blood sugar by stimulating insulin secretion, inhibiting liver glucose output, promoting liver glucose metabolizing enzyme activity and reducing glucose transporter content.

Cordyceps sinensis is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with dual functions of medicine and food. It is warm and sweet, belonging to the kidney and lung meridian, which is beneficial to tonifying kidney and lung, stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm. It can be used for impotence, nocturnal emission, soreness of waist and knees, chronic cough, asthma, expectoration and other people, and has the effect of tonifying deficiency. Modern medical research also found that Cordyceps sinensis has certain immune regulation and anti-tumor effects. For patients with poor cardiopulmonary function, Cordyceps sinensis also has certain effects of preventing and treating emphysema, improving renal insufficiency, reducing blood lipid and delaying atherosclerosis.

Cordyceps sinensis is rich in a variety of antioxidant substances, such as peptides, nucleic acids and other important antioxidant substances. Collecting Cordyceps sinensis and extracting its effective antioxidant substances in time have a very good effect on whitening, freckle removing, antioxidation and delaying premature aging of women's skin. Cordyceps sinensis has high nutritional and medicinal value. Besides fat, protein, cellulose, carbohydrate and water, it also contains cordycepic acid and vitamin b 12, which has antibacterial, antiasthmatic, cardiotonic and antihypertensive effects.

The high price of Cordyceps sinensis is not only because of its good medicinal value, but also because of its high growth conditions and large demand. Faced with such a large market demand, many unscrupulous merchants use other Cordyceps or inferior products to impersonate Cordyceps for huge profits, so we should carefully distinguish when buying Cordyceps.