What is the price of Cordyceps flower? A look at the latest market prices
Although Cordyceps flower contains abundant nutrients and has high medicinal value, and can even be called a substitute for Cordyceps sinensis, in fact its price is far lower than that of Cordyceps sinensis. The specific price depends on whether it is dried or fresh and on the variety.
Differences in freshness
According to market surveys, the price of Cordyceps flower varies greatly depending on whether it is fresh or dried. The market price of fresh Cordyceps flower is 15 to 20 yuan per jin, while one jin of dried Cordyceps flower requires seven jin of fresh Cordyceps to dry, so its price is 40 to 200 yuan per jin.
Differences in variety
Based on appearance, Cordyceps flower can be divided into pointed grass, round-headed grass, thick grass, small spore head, large spore head, pupa-bearing grass and other types, which also leads to price differences. For example, the pointed grass and round-headed grass that people commonly eat are priced between 45 and 70 yuan. Small spore head is generally above 80 yuan. The rest depend on quality, at around 100 yuan.
Now that you know the price of Cordyceps flower, don't you find it easier to accept than Cordyceps sinensis, which costs thousands of yuan per jin? I also know that some people will be even more doubtful: it is so cheap, is it really effective? Does it really have so many benefits? In fact, it is true. Let's take a look together!
What is the difference between Cordyceps and Cordyceps flower? The benefits of Cordyceps flower
Cordyceps sinensis, abbreviated as Cordyceps, has extremely high health-preserving benefits and is also a very precious and expensive Chinese medicinal herb. Many people like to buy Cordyceps sinensis for tonic purposes. Everyone knows that, besides Cordyceps sinensis, there is another medicinal herb called Cordyceps flower. So what are the differences between the two?
What is the difference between Cordyceps and Cordyceps flower
Cordyceps is formed by the connection of the insect body and the fungus stalk, with a total length of 9 to 12 cm. The insect body resembles a three-times-slept old silkworm, about 3 to 6 cm long and about 0.4 to 0.7 cm thick. Its surface is dark yellow and rough, with many transverse wrinkles on the back, and 8 pairs of feet on the ventral side, with the 4 pairs located at the middle of the body being clearly visible.
The nutritional content of Cordyceps sinensis is higher than that of ginseng. It can be used as medicine and also eaten, and is a superior delicacy with very high nutritional value. Cordyceps sinensis can enhance the body's immunity, nourish the lungs and kidneys, and has a marked inhibitory effect on lung cancer, liver cancer and others. Clinically, it has therapeutic effects on chronic cough due to lung deficiency, asthma, hemoptysis from pulmonary tuberculosis, night sweats, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees due to kidney deficiency, impotence and seminal emission, neurasthenia, and decreased red blood cells after chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
"Cordyceps flower" is not a flower. In essence, it is the fruiting body of Cordyceps, not the fruiting body of Cordyceps sinensis. The culture medium imitates the various nutrients contained in natural insects, including grains, beans, eggs and milk, etc., and it belongs to a type of fungus. It is very similar to common edible fungi such as shiitake mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, only differing in strain, growth environment and growth conditions. In order to distinguish it from Cordyceps sinensis, merchants gave it a beautiful name, calling it "Cordyceps flower". The biggest external feature of Cordyceps flower is that it has no "insect body", only orange or yellow "grass".
The benefits of Cordyceps flower
1. Relieving asthma and stopping cough: For people prone to dry cough in autumn, Cordyceps flower can be used to make soup, which can moisten the throat and is helpful for emphysema and bronchitis.
2. Strengthening yang and tonifying the kidneys, enhancing physical strength and energy: It has a good effect on restoring mental clarity and improving brain memory.
3. A "good medicine" for improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: Because Cordyceps flower can lower blood pressure and intracranial pressure, and at the same time has a relieving effect on symptoms such as cerebral thrombosis, coronary heart disease and numbness of hands and feet.
4. Cordyceps flower has anti-inflammatory and sterilizing effects: It has obvious therapeutic effects in antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and cancer-suppressing aspects.
5. Beauty benefits: Cordyceps flower also has the effect of moisturizing the skin and nourishing the complexion, and can especially quickly eliminate women's "butterfly" spots.
6. Anti-aging: Women who regularly take Cordyceps flower can clearly feel that their endocrine system has slowed down the aging process, because Cordyceps flower can well regulate the endocrine and immune systems and play an anti-aging role.
7. Cordyceps flower has a relieving effect on hypoxia and fatigue: It is suitable for people who often do mental work and office workers who use computers for a long time, and has a good effect on resisting fatigue and relieving hypoxia.
Suitable groups for Cordyceps sinensis
Although Cordyceps sinensis has no obvious toxic side effects, the following groups of people need to be cautious when taking Cordyceps sinensis, as adverse reactions may be caused by their physical constitution:
1. Infants, people with fever (patients with acute high fever), and women during menstruation are forbidden to take Cordyceps sinensis;
2. Those with excess fire or predominance of pathogenic factors should not eat Cordyceps sinensis;
3. People with a hot constitution, patients with hypertension and stroke, and tumor patients during radiotherapy should use Cordyceps sinensis cautiously or should not eat it;
4. People with internal bleeding (such as hemoptysis, blood in the stool, etc.) and cerebral hemorrhage should not eat Cordyceps sinensis;
5. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis should reduce their dosage.
How to preserve fresh Cordyceps sinensis
The preservation method for fresh Cordyceps sinensis is very simple. Generally speaking, after purchasing Cordyceps, the vacuum packaging sent by the merchant is already sealed. You only need to put the Cordyceps in the refrigerator for cold storage, and when eating, take out as much as you need and eat it immediately after opening. Of course, fresh Cordyceps sinensis should not be stored for too long, generally not exceeding 1 year, so that the active ingredients of Cordyceps will not be lost too much. The earlier it is eaten, the better the effect.
As mentioned above, many people who do not understand it easily confuse Cordyceps with Cordyceps flower. In fact, Cordyceps and Cordyceps flower are two different medicinal herbs. Apart from their similar names, their appearance, characteristics, effects and prices are all different.
The medicinal value of Cordyceps flower
Improving one's own immunity
Medical research has proved that the clinical effects of Cordyceps flower are the same as those of Cordyceps sinensis. Both have the effect of regulating one's own functions and enhancing the phagocytic ability of macrophages, thus promoting the formation of antibodies and thereby enhancing one's own immunity.
That is all for today's introduction to the price and effects of Cordyceps flower! I wonder if everyone is tempted and wants to buy some Cordyceps flower to try? Action is better than just being tempted! But I still want to remind everyone to understand the eating methods and contraindications of Cordyceps flower before eating it!