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Cordyceps sinensis has been described as a medicine in old Chinese and Tibetan medical books. It is a rare combination of a caterpillar and a fungus and found at altitudes above 4500m. Traditional healers recommend the fungus, i.e., Yartsa gunbu or Keera jhar (C. sinensis) for all diseases either as a single drug or combined with other herbs. Details on the chemical constituents of Cordyceps sinensis and a related species, Cordyceps militaris are given in the book. The health benefits of the fungus and the conditions for large scale cultivation of this fungus in vitro are also given.

Yartsa gunbu ( Cordyceps Sinensis) sliced in half. Daniel Winkler In the produce aisle at your local grocery story, button mushrooms go for about $4 a pound, Shitakes cost about twice that, and black truffles can run $800 a pound. But that's nothing compared to a rare Asian fungus that sells for $50,000 a pound. Caterpillar fungus in the ground, partially exposed. Daniel Winkler In English, it's called caterpillar fungus. But it's better known throughout Asia by the Tibetan term, yartsa gunbu, which means "summer grass, winter worm." Britt Bunyard, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and editor of Fungi Magazine, explains that this fungi ( Cordyceps Sinensis) makes its living by getting inside a host insect and ultimately killing and consuming it. In this case, the insect that's invaded is the caterpillar of the ghost moth. "This caterpillar will bury itself down a couple inches into the soil. Meanwhile it doesn't know it, but this fungus is digesting it from within and then in the spring this ... tissue erupts out the head." It may sound gross, but he says this pinky-sized mummified caterpillar is the most expensive fungi in the world. A yartsa gunbu dealer in the town of Bayi, Tibet. Daniel Winkler An Aphrodisiac, Maybe, A Status Symbol For Sure Yartsa gunbu was mentioned as far back as a 15th century Tibetan medicinal text titled "An Ocean of Aphrodisiacal Qualities." These days, that reputation has made it a status symbol. Daniel Winkler, who's written extensive...

Whole communities depend on the income they get from harvesting the fungus A parasitic fungus that grows inside the ghost moth caterpillar and then kills its host by bursting through its head is itself threatened with extinction, the IUCN said Thursday, as demand surges for Chinese medicine's "Himalayan Viagra". Ophiocordyceps sinensis, the world's most expensive fungus, only grows on the Tibetan Plateau where it has become the main source of income for some communities. It has been prized as a health tonic and aphrodisiac in Chinese traditional medicine for centuries, but demand has intensified since the 1990s. Overharvesting has slashed populations by at least 30 percent in the last 15 years, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which has now listed it as "vulnerable" to extinction in its directory of threatened animal and plant species. "This is one of the few documented cases of a fungus being threatened by overharvesting," said Gregory Mueller, who heads up IUCN's Fungal Conservation Committee. He said there needed to be a sustainable harvest programme to protect both the fungus and the communities that rely on it for their incomes. Ophiocordyceps sinensis is also known as the Caterpillar Fungus, or Yarchagumba, which means "summer plant, winter insect" in Tibetan. It is only found in meadows above 3,500 metres (11,550 feet) and forms when the fungus lodges itself in caterpillars and slowly kills them. Graphic factfile on the yarchagumb...

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Kathmandu: At least 5 people out in search of Himalayan Viagra or the Yarsagumba are suspected to be buried in an avalanche in Darchula district of far-west, officials confirmed. As per the officials, an avalanche hit the Byans Village Council- 01, Bolin at around 3 pm (Local Time) on Tuesday. Five people are confirmed to be missing with the search team at the spot carrying out the search and rescue operations. "The missing people include 4 females and a male. The weather condition is also not good," confirmed Deputy Chief District Officer Pradip Singh Dhami to ANI over the phone. As many as 80 teams from the Armed Police Force along with the Nepal Police have been deployed to the site, said Pradip Singh Dhami, the Deputy Chief District Officer of Darchula. A caravan of people climbs higher up the snow-capped mountains for weeks during the annual Yarsagumba harvesting season. This year the harvest is about to start in the Himalayas of Nepal which is later sold at a higher price. Considered a medicinal herb- the Yarsagumba, a unique caterpillar-fungus fusion occurs when parasitic mushroom spores (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) infect and mummify a ghost moth larva living in the soil. Scientists have found that a spindly fungus sprouts from the dead caterpillar host's head. Two to six centimetres long, the fungus shoots above the soil, acting as a tiny, finger-shaped flag for harvesters to find. It is found at altitudes between 3000 and 5000 meters in Nepal, India and Bhutan. Yars...

High on the Tibetan plateau, on the sides of steep green valleys dotted with herds of grazing yaks, beneath forbidding snow-clad peaks, a line of adults and children crouch and crawl across the slopes. They are hunting - not for game but for a tiny brown shoot poking just an inch or two above the ground amid the retreating snows, revealing a mushroom known as the caterpillar fungus. This is "Himalayan Viagra," and it is so sought after in China for its medicinal and aphrodisiac qualities that it can sometimes fetch its weight in gold. Tibet's annual gold rush is in full swing, school's out and 47-year-old Chu Tsering has brought two of his sons and one daughter on his motorbike to take part in the search. Chu, his weather-beaten face shielded from the sun by a cowboy hat and shades, owns more than 100 yaks. But he says 90 percent of his family's income stems from just two months of work combing the slopes. "We couldn't survive without it," he says. The same is true for hundreds of thousands of Tibetan herders across a vast swath of the plateau for whom caterpillar fungus is their main source of income, their economic lifeline and their only link to China's growing prosperity. Yet that lifeline is beginning to fray. Climate change and overharvesting have made the caterpillar fungus harder to find, say experts and locals, while an economic slowdown and anti-corruption campaign in China have depressed prices. Critics say the Chinese government is not doing enough to ensure th...