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Added At: 2012-05-15 11:23 PM
Last Updated At: 2012-05-15 11:23 PM
SAURAV SHRESTHA
Yarsagumba or Yarchagumbu is an exceptional and incredible herb that grows in the pastures above 3,300 meters upto 4000 meters in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Bhutan, India and Tibet. Yarsagumba literally means summer plant and winter insect (dong cong xia cao) in Tibetan. In India, it is usually known as ‘Kira Jhar’ which means Insect Plant . Scientific name of this herb is ‘Cordyceps Sinensis’.Yarsagumba is a exceptional combination of a yellow caterpillar and a mushroom (fungus). Just earlier to the rainy season, spores of cordyceps fungus infect these Himalayan caterpillars that live on moist grass and hollow soil. After the fungus buries itself in the caterpillar’s body, it works its way out through the insect’s head. The parasite gets the energy from the caterpillar. The fungus parasite gets so much into the body of the caterpillars’ that it drains all the energy from the insect and ultimately it dies. As temperature increases and the snow melts -yarsa gumba emerges and is collected. —love4nepal.blog.com
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Posted on: 2012-05-16 15:25:59
this word (dong cong xia cao) is chinese not tibetan, u want to say something but doesn't know much and u should know that one day nepal will be controlled by chinese then u gonna realise bro. think for long run my man ang gurung, dubai
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Posted on: 2012-05-17 01:12:40
first of all, yarsagumba is a medicinal herb.. 2nd.Yartsa gunbu/ Yarsa gunbu is a Tibetan name for it.. 3rd. since 2007 it has been officially named Ophiocordyceps sinensis with the formation of new family Ophiocordycipitaceae.. i would like to thank the writer and advise him as well other writers that it is always best to study and go for the latest updates and amendments before writing an article..then only go public. as the information may act inadvertently.. Sharmila Gurung, dharan