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    Cordyceps...Medicinal Shrooms...

    Anyone with ideas, thanks!



    What do you all think about Cordyceps? I remember having some in some medicine at one time in China. Worked well at the time. But I didn't have very much of it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by TAO YIN View Post
    Anyone with ideas, thanks!



    What do you all think about Cordyceps? I remember having some in some medicine at one time in China. Worked well at the time. But I didn't have very much of it.

    It worked well for what malady?

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    fungus growing out of a worm's butt

    I just want to know who the heck figured out that cordyceps could be used a performance enhancing substance.
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    At the time I had an extremely nasty cough. Long story short, I ended up at an herbs market with a monk getting a formula filled for jook. I remember seeing the "cordyceps," and asked my friend what it was. He said it was a mushroom, obviously, and that it was necessary to make my cough go away.

    I just remember it working really well quick. Before that if I ever had a cough (which anyone will have at some point living in China) I would just go get that ground up ginseng mix in packets, or I would drink some good snake wine.

    Anyways, I miss Mountain Yam...

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    Heard it was someone in Tibet watched yaks eat it and then watched the yaks mate like weasels in heat.

    Who knows....

    Its a very good herb.
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    Dale,

    I started to put an Attn. to you in this thread actually.

    You really think it is a good herb? Why is it good?

    How much is it here in the States, and is it readily availabe at herb shops? I know of a few markets that I went to in China had various kinds of it for outrageous prices.

    Now that I think of it, just for eating in jooks and that I really miss some good Mountain Yam. Always made my insides feel cool but refreshed...I miss some good Yam...

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing View Post
    I just want to know who the heck figured out that cordyceps could be used a performance enhancing substance.
    The chinese, they used it to "rev" up their swimming team a few years ago, remember?
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