Panda Ashok Kumar, Swain Kailash Chandra
Ayurveda Regional Research Institute, Gangtok, Sikkim, India.
J Ayurveda Integr Med. 2011 Jan;2(1):9-13. doi: 10.4103/0975-9476.78183.
Cordyceps sinensis has been described as a medicine in old Chinese medical books and Tibetan medicine. It is a rare combination of a caterpillar and a fungus and found at altitudes above 4500m in Sikkim. Traditional healers and local people of North Sikkim recommend the mushroom, i.e., Yarsa gumba, Keera jhar (C. sinensis) for all diseases either as a single drug or combined with other herbs. The present study was undertaken to collect information regarding the traditional uses of cordyceps in Sikkim. It was found that most local folk healers/traditional healers use cordyceps for the treatment of 21 ailments. A modern literature search was carried out to assess whether the curative effects are valid or just blind faith of local people. Chemical constituents of cordyceps are given and pharmacological and biological studies reviewed. More mechanism-based and disease-oriented clinical studies are recommended.
冬虫夏草在古代中医典籍和藏医中就有记载。它是一种罕见的毛虫与真菌的结合体，在锡金海拔4500米以上的地区被发现。锡金北部的传统治疗师和当地居民推荐这种蘑菇，即冬虫夏草，用于治疗所有疾病，可单独使用，也可与其他草药混合使用。本研究旨在收集有关冬虫夏草在锡金传统用途的信息。研究发现，大多数当地民间治疗师/传统治疗师使用冬虫夏草治疗21种疾病。进行了一项现代文献检索，以评估其疗效是否有效，还是仅仅是当地人的盲目信仰。文中给出了冬虫夏草的化学成分，并对其药理学和生物学研究进行了综述。建议开展更多基于机制和针对疾病的临床研究。
