| Cordyceps is one of the important and most special officinal fungi resources in China while its artificial cultivation, effective components, and pharmacodynamics and related studies have attracted scholars′ attention. Ophiocordyceps xuefengensis is a new cordyceps resource recently discovered in Mt. Xuefeng, Hunan Province. It has a close relationship with O. sinensis and was used in Dongkou County for cancer therapy, cough, and immunity boosting etc. Combined with the author′s own studies, the recent discovery of O. xuefengensis and the investigation and study on its growth habits and properties, the isolation of strain, the artificial cultivation of the complex of caterpillar and fungus, the artificial cultivation of stroma, the analysis of chemical components, as well as pharmacodynamic effects of O. xuefengensis etc. were expatiated in detail. According to the characteristics of O. xuefengensis and the current research trend of cordyceps, the existing problems of O. xuefengensis were discussed, new train of thought and value of the research on O. xuefengensis were also put forward. |
