Cicada Flower has significant immune-modulating, anti-fatigue and kidney function improving effects, and its medicinal value is similar to that of Cordyceps sinensis.?

Cicada Flower, also known as Golden Cicada Flower, Cicada Fungus or Cicada Chrysanthemum Grass, etc., like Cordyceps sinensis, is a kind of organism with both animal and plant characteristics.

It is the unemerged cicada chrysalis, infested by Penicillium spores parasitism, in the appropriate humidity and temperature environment, slowly began to sprout into white mycelium, gradually formed to cicada chrysalis as the root, the top of the growth of light yellow mycelium.

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p>Cicada flower is the ergot fungus cicadas mimic penicillium parasitized bamboo cicada after the complex, is similar to Cordyceps sinensis cordyceps; and native to the Hengduan Mountains, Tianmu Mountains infected insects for the bamboo cicada of the wild cicadas flower called golden cicada flower or big cicada grass. As early as in the North and South Dynasties Lei_'s "Lei Gong Gun Zhi Lun" there are records of processing cicada flowers.

The efficacy was documented in Tang Shenwei's Ziqi Ben Cao (征类本草) of the Song Dynasty, as well as Li Shizhen's Ben Cao Gangmu (本草纲目) of the Ming Dynasty, and the pharmacopoeias that followed. The historical records of Cicada flowers are earlier than Cordyceps sinensis, but natural Cicada flowers are very rare, and wild Golden Cicada flowers are even rarer and more precious, which restricts the use of Cicada flowers in large quantities

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