How to eat Cordyceps sinensis

When eating Cordyceps sinensis, it is best to eat it about half an hour before meals, and the best effect is to eat Cordyceps sinensis alone. When using Cordyceps sinensis, do not take other Chinese or Western medicines. While taking Cordyceps sinensis, do not eat garlic or radish. Also, please note that Cordyceps sinensis is relatively expensive, so it must be properly stored after purchase to avoid mold and deterioration. Here’s how to eat Cordyceps sinensis.

There are some requirements for eating Cordyceps sinensis. You must eat enough. According to the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, therapeutic consumption should be 10 to 30 grams per day to be effective. If your conditions are not very good, you can consider eating them for a week and then stop for a while. Eating two or three a day or only occasionally eating that much in a day is basically a waste. Must be eaten raw at room temperature! CCTV's program has introduced that once Cordyceps sinensis is heated, its effective ingredients will be greatly reduced.

It needs to be cleaned. There is a saying in the Cordyceps industry that one ounce of Cordyceps contains half an ounce of soil. If you buy the Cordyceps from a pharmacy and eat it without cleaning it, the mud, parasite eggs and mold on the surface of the Cordyceps will also enter your stomach. What is particularly troublesome is that the cleaning time of Cordyceps must not exceed two minutes, otherwise the medicinal efficacy will be lost. Although the conditions at home may not allow for particularly clean cleaning, it is better than not cleaning it at all.

You have to chew it hard. Cordyceps sinensis is neither an animal nor a plant, but a parasite of fungi and insects. Therefore, the essence released in water or the stomach is very little. The essential nutrients are all in the macromolecular cells, and they must break the membrane and wall to exert their maximum effect.

The above mainly introduces the specific ways to eat Cordyceps sinensis. In fact, there are many other ways to eat Cordyceps sinensis. You can soak it in wine, make tea, or stew it in soup. It should be noted that it is best not to stew Cordyceps sinensis at high temperatures, because high-temperature stewing can easily lead to the loss of nutritional components of Cordyceps sinensis, and in the end it will not have the value it deserves.