Posted 9/17/2016 3:42 PM (GMT 0)
cordyceps is amazing. the excerpt is from buhner's book below:
Cordyceps really is a very potent and very good medicinal with a wide range of actions. It is an immunomodulator and immunoadaptogen, mitochondrial adaptogen (increases oxygen utilization in the mitochondria, stimulates ATP production by the mitochondria, protects mitochondria from adverse events), anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, neuroprotective, antitumor, antimetastic, hepatoprotective (autoimmune protection, reduces fibrosis, reduces and inhibits cirrhosis, anti-hepatitis B), renoprotective (protects from toxicity, inhibits renal failure, reverses glomerulonephritis), cardiotonic (hypotensive, strengthens heartbeat, antiarrhythmic, improves myocardial ischemia), nerve sedative, sleep regulator, anticonvulsant, antitussive, antiasthmatic, expectorant, bronchial regulator, antipyretic, adrenogenic, steroidogenic, hypolipidemic, hypoglycemic, antibacterial, animicrobial, insecticidal.
Cordyceps is a rather potent immunoadaptogen. If immune activity is high, it reduces it, if low, it enhances it. When taken regularly, if the immune system is stressed by, say, a bacterial organism, the herb will stimulate the immune system in just the right way to respond to the stressor while lowering the levels of or inhibiting entirely the bacterial-induced cytokines that are generated. Cordyceps is not primarily an antibacterial but is rather a systemic tonic and adaptogen, but still it does have some antimicrobial actions. It is active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Plasmodium spp., Clostridium spp., herpes simplex virus 1, HIV-1 protease, hepatitis B, and various cancers (breast, thyroid, kidney, bladder, prostate, lung, Leydig tumor cells, melanoma). The herb, while not generally active against bacteria, is, however, highly protective of the human body when bacterial infections occur.