Cicada Flower is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine with high medicinal value. Natural Cicada Flower (or Golden Cicada Flower) is mainly used in various kinds of medicinal herbs for compounding, tonic medicinal diets or as a health care product. Studies have shown that Cicada flowers contain a variety of active ingredients such as polysaccharides, cordycepic acid, cordycepin, amino acids, various alkaloids, ergosterol and glycogen. Song Yuliang et al. applied high-performance liquid chromatography to determine the approximate adenosine content of Cicada flowers as 135 mg/g.

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Paecilomyces cicadae (Miquel.) Samson is China's traditional precious Chinese medicine cicada flower, native to the Hengduan Mountains, Tianmu Mountains infected with the body of the cicada for the bitter bamboo cicada of the wild cicadas are also known as the Golden Cicadas flower or cicada grass; Golden Cicadas flower belongs to insect-borne medicinal Fungus;

Cicadas are parasitized on some kind of Homoptera Cicadidae insects cicada worm formed by the insect fungus complex. The sexual form of Cicadophora is Cordyces cidadae shing. There are relatively few Cordyceps cidadae in nature, and they are mainly a worm-bacterial complex parasitized by Cordyceps cidadae shing.

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