Cordyceps sinensis is neither a worm, not a grass but a fungus and insects of the complex. Above sea level in China 3800 - 6000 meters altitude on the life of a bat called the ni hardy insects, in almost the same altitude active called Chinese caterpillar fungus strains of the fungus. Qiumodongchu its mycelium spores left its mothers body after being released into the atmosphere with the wind, with the arrival of rain into the soil, and bats encountered in the armyworm larvae, Chinese caterpillar fungus bacteria that is one of parasitic worm invasion. After about a month sclerotium fungus develop into bat armyworm larvae become fully Chinese caterpillar fungus strains of nutrition supply, Chinese
caterpillar fungus spore bacteria suffered the organs of the insect into the whole body is full of mycelium, that the winter of insects. By the summer of May, the mycelium from the winter will be the head of the worm slowly germination, staged grow like grass, like the fungi-Block, known as the summer grass. At this point mycelium spores began to consume mycelium ejected to breed, the spores released into the atmosphere went to the beginning of the next round of their lives. Cordyceps of harvest time each year, only 2 months, each of the Cordyceps of harvest time in terms suitable for only a matter of days, if the early excavation,
Cordyceps sinensis not long enough to mature, if late, the consumption of mycelium To do, flying spore, the son of Block wither, buried in the soil of mother-to Chinese caterpillar fungus or rot or hollow, the excavation at this time as though militaris shape, but it has little medicinal value. The whole world has discovered there are more than 400 kinds of Chinese caterpillar fungus, only to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into the medicinal a Cordyceps sinensis, the role of body composition is also mycelium. Mycelium contains cordycepin, acid Cordyceps, Chinese caterpillar fungus polysaccharides, adenine, adenosine, uracil, two-, mushroom sugar, D-mannitol, vitamin B12, ergosterol, alkaloids and 19 Free amino acids and so on.