A fungus called Ophiocordyceps sinensis, also known as caterpillar fungus, is found in the Himalayas and often used in traditional medicine to treat illnesses like cancer. Researchers in the United ...
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Numerous attempts of Chinese intrusion into Indian territory were to collect rare Himalayan fungus ‘Keeda Jadi’ (Cordyceps), the Indo-Pacific Centre for Strategic Communications ...
A woman displays the fungus for sale at a market. The fungus sprouts from the caterpillar’s head. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images News via Getty Images While many traditional Chinese/herbal medicine ...
Cancer has been one of the nefarious diseases that has been affecting the lives of many people, with limited to no known cure to remove the cells that are affecting those in the body. However, ...
CHINESE consumers call it the "Himalayan Viagra'' but harvesting of a prized caterpillar fungus is leading to violence and exploitation in Tibet. The parasitic fungus, Cordyceps sinensis to science, ...
The FINANCIAL — A new industry-academic partnership between the University of Oxford and biopharmaceutical company NuCana as found that chemotherapy drug NUC-7738, derived from a Himalayan fungus, has ...
In interviews with more than 800 harvesters of caterpillar fungus, a valuable component of traditional medicine, in the Himalayan region conducted over the past decade, the majority of respondents ...
Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Nov 2018), pp. 323-331 (9 pages) The trade of Himalayan caterpillar fungus, or Ophiocordyceps sinensis, is believed to have transformed the rural ...
The yarsa gumba harvesting season this year coincides with the coronavirus scare and as rumours spread about its supposed medicinal properties, there could be a run on the over-extracted Himalayan ...
A parasitic fungus that grows wild throughout the Himalayas and sells for more than its weight in gold could vanish if current harvesting and climate trends continue, according to new research from ...
Yarsa gunbu, better known outside Nepal as the Himalayan Viagra, accounts for two-fifths of the country’s non-timber exports. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Nepalis head for the hilly regions to ...
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