Cordyceps flowers, also known as Chrysanthemum Cordyceps, are usually not to be taken any further when they are black. It may be caused by the deterioration of poor quality Cordyceps flowers or oxidization after a long time of placing.
Chrysanthemum Cordyceps is a traditional Chinese medicine, belonging to the wheatgrass fungus Chrysanthemum Cordyceps, a kind of fungus, which is used in medicine with the composite dry body of its ascospores and parasitic insect pupae. This product has the effect of tonifying the lungs and kidneys, stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm, and is useful in the treatment of prolonged cough and asthma, labor and hemoptysis, impotence and spermatorrhea, and lumbar and knee impotence and pain. The adverse reactions, contraindications and medication matters of this product are not clear or have not been reported in the literature.
Cordyceps flowers turn black may be placed for too long, deterioration of traditional Chinese medicine or oxidation caused by this situation should not continue to take or in the Chinese medicine practitioner to identify and analyze after taking the doctor’s advice.
If there is a need for medication, it should be used under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used blindly on its own to avoid adverse consequences.