First, let's tell a curious story about how the Cordyceps mushroom was discovered. In those days, to be sure, it had no name. In fact, the first to discover it were the wild yaks and then their domesticated descendants, the domestic yaks. These were cultivated as livestock on the plateaus of Tibet and the Pamirs more than two thousand years ago. They grazed and they were fine, you know, healthy air and good food. And then they got even better when they started grazing a strange mushroom that resembled a weird caterpillar. The animals were suddenly so vital and prolific that one decided to try it all out for himself. And it worked. And it still works today.

Sports enthusiasts, beware. This mushroom is said to have been behind - secretly, of course - the outstanding achievements of Chinese athletes at the last few Olympics. Whether this is a media rumour, we don't know, but what is certain is that top athletes and fans of various forms of ultra races can't get enough of Cordyceps. In fact, it is considered to be the most powerful recharger of vitality and life energy of the entire plant kingdom. Traditional medicine explains its effect by the ability of Cordyceps to replenish the so-called kidney essence (Jing in Chinese), which is not only behind our vitality, but also behind the ability to activate the enormous sources of energy in the muscles. The cordyceps mushroom can thus charge the "sports batteries", helping to increase a person's physical performance, both in sports and in reproduction.

Traditional Chinese medicine, as well as Tibetan and other East Asian medicine, sees Cordyceps as a mushroom with a warm characteristic. This mushroom is therefore not neutral or cool, it warms our body, but above all it melts our life stones. According to Chinese medicine, the Kidney organ plays this role of a cauldron or hearth in the body. When the right fire is blazing in them, we are vital and healthy. When it goes out because we don't put it on, the body languishes and decays. The Cordyceps mushroom, however, can re-melt our body's life cauldron. Therefore, people who are naturally yang, people with excess internal heat, people who sweat profusely, people with red cheeks, people with a fiery constitution should be careful when taking it. On the contrary, people who are cold-hearted, naturally yin, people with coldness in the kidneys or generally anywhere in the body, such people find the Cordyceps mushroom a very welcome guide on the path of vitality.

We have already mentioned the stones of our organism residing in the Kidneys. Cordyceps can re-melt them. This means that, according to Chinese medicine, it has its main effect towards the Kidneys, the so-called tropism. But that's not all, besides that this mushroom can very strongly replenish the yin part of the energy of the Lungs. This will be especially appreciated by people with a weak lung constitution or those of us who have also lost some of the yin energy of the Lungs due to a lack of yin in the Kidneys. And the Lungs, as we know, are not only the "hall of all blood vessels" but also the place where our body's defensive energy, the so-called Wei Qi, is generated. And those who can defend themselves effectively are not easily overwhelmed.