Cordyceps Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Cordyceps (Cordyceps sinensis, now classified as Ophiocordyceps sinensis), the caterpillar fungus or yartsa gunbu, is not a plant but a parasitic fungus of the Ophiocordycipitaceae family, native to alpine meadows at 3,000 to 5,000 meters on the Tibetan plateau and in the Himalaya of Nepal, Bhutan, and India. Its spores settle on ghost moth caterpillars underground; the fungus consumes the larva over winter and in spring sends up a single slender, dark brown, club-shaped stalk 4 to 10 centimeters tall from the mummified caterpillar's head. The wild product is among the costliest natural materials in the world; most commercial supply is fermented mycelium. We extract the dried whole fungus.