Since the era of Qin Shihuang, Qin Shihuang has hoped to find the elixir to live forever. Until now, most people’s mentality is to hope that by taking elixir, all health problems can be solved effortlessly. To put it simply, we hope to solve problems with money. With the rapid development of science and technology, is there any new data to prove that the traditional health care products that are popular can really help people solve their troubles? The most concerned issue, because these are all within their ability to do, and everything else depends on medical staff. One of the most concerned Chinese medicinal materials is Cordyceps sinensis. Due to its high value, the price should be directly proportional to the effect for the average consumer. Since one suffers from chronic illnesses, one must use the best ingredients to achieve the best therapeutic effect, but is it true that the more expensive the better?
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Exaggerated Cordyceps
Cordyceps sinensis (scientific name: Ophiocordyceps sinensis), also known as Cordyceps sinensis, Cordyceps sinensis, is a fungus that parasitizes insects. Cordyceps sinensis is a complex of insects and fungi. Cordyceps sinensis is formed when the spores of the Cordyceps fungus are released into the soil, looking for bat moth larvae to parasitize, invading the body to absorb the larvae’s nutrition, and the larvae continue to form hyphae to kill the larvae. Grass teeth will grow on the head of the worm until spring and become Cordyceps sinensis.
In Hong Kong, Cordyceps sinensis is one of the Chinese herbal medicines listed in Schedule II of the Chinese Medicine Ordinance. According to the “National Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China”, Cordyceps sinensis is sweet and flat in nature and taste, and belongs to the lung and kidney channels. It is used for the treatment of deficiency of kidney essence, impotence and nocturnal emission, soreness of the waist and knees, chronic cough and shortness of breath, hemoptysis due to overworked cough. There are many records about Cordyceps sinensis in ancient Chinese medicine books, most of which are used to tonify deficiency.
Wild Cordyceps is expensive and rare. Especially in recent years, it has been rumored that Cordyceps has anti-cancer effects, and citizens are flocking to it. Modern research has found that there are more than 30 components of Cordyceps sinensis, including Cordyceps polysaccharide, cordycepic acid, and adenosine. Among them, only Cordycepin and Exopolysaccharides are the main active ingredients of Cordyceps sinensis. Cordyceps sinensis is a Chinese medicinal material that has the functions of nourishing kidney and strengthening yang, nourishing lung and relieving asthma, stopping bleeding and reducing phlegm, anti-tumor, improving immunity and lowering blood pressure.
Western medicine recognizes the efficacy of Cordyceps sinensis?
Wild Cordyceps is rare, so most Cordyceps are cultivated, and it is even more difficult to extract cancer-promoting ingredients from Cordyceps. More than 30 active ingredients have been found in laboratory research, but among them, only 2-3 cordycepin or a small amount of immune protein have a small amount of anti-cancer effect.
Recently, Oxford University found that the “3′-dA” of Cordyceps sinensis has a response to cancer cells, but its phase I research is still in the cell level test. Therefore, in cytological research, Cordyceps sinensis has the opportunity to fight cancer cells. In animal tests, Cordyceps sinensis has the opportunity to reduce the side effects caused by chemotherapy or discover the anti-cancer effect remains to be seen. But until now, there is no human research data that Cordyceps sinensis can effectively prevent tumors, or help cancer patients prevent tumor recurrence, and there is no data that Cordyceps sinensis can enhance the efficacy of anti-cancer treatment or reduce the side effects of treatment.
Therefore, from the perspective of Western medicine, Cordyceps sinensis is just a grass, a grass that is expensive and has no magical effect. Cordyceps sinensis is mainly catalyzed by artificial cultivation. The cultivation land or process is different, and a large number of different additives or other substances can be added after cultivation. The Cordyceps sinensis in everyone’s hands may be very different from the original one. Whether it is cost-effective (value for money) or suitable for your physique, or even whether your product is of high quality is doubtful. It is best to check with a registered Chinese medicine practitioner or medical staff.
Is Cordyceps sinensis an ideal health product?
Because there are too many products of Cordyceps sinensis in the Mainland, even experienced Chinese herbalists can’t tell the real ones from the fake ones. With the emergence of different counterfeit products, the Mainland Drug Administration detected in 2016 that the content of arsenic (commonly known as arsenic) in Cordyceps sinensis products on the Mainland market exceeded the national standard by 4 to 10 times, which may affect liver and kidney functions, central nervous system poisoning, and serious It can even cause cancer (skin cancer, bladder cancer and lung cancer), and finally put all Cordyceps off the shelves.
Although it is Western medicine and does use arsenic to cure a certain blood cancer, it does not mean that it can prevent cancer. Moreover, there is currently no clinical medical data to prove that Cordyceps sinensis can improve resistance and anti-cancer effects. The State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) issued the “Regulations on Stopping the Pilot Work of Cordyceps Sinensis in Health Food” in February 2016 and March 2018. “Notice”, announced that Cordyceps sinensis is not a dual-use substance for medicine and food, and long-term use will harm the human body. Cordyceps sinensis is removed from the health food category, and the relevant declaration and approval work of health food containing Cordyceps sinensis is carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the “Health Food Registration and Filing Management Measures”, and production and sales are not allowed without approval.
In terms of cost-effectiveness and safety, in fact, there are still many traditional Chinese medicines for tonifying deficiency, nourishing lung and kidney, or anti-cancer. It is not necessary to choose expensive and not necessarily genuine Cordyceps sinensis, such as the combination of astragalus, schisandra, codonopsis, and sealwort. All of the above effects. All in all, for cancer patients, the most ideal gift seems to be caring companionship, which is more effective than expensive but ineffective health care products!
Authors: Dr. Huang Yunting, a registered Chinese medicine practitioner, and Dr. Huang Lishan, a specialist in clinical oncology
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