The price of Cordyceps has skyrocketed a thousand times in 30 years. Experts say the efficacy of Cordyceps is equivalent to that of wolfberry

According to the analysis of the insiders, the irrational price increase is caused by the lack of funds and resources ● according to the medical experts, its medicinal efficacy is equivalent to that of wolfberry It has been nearly a month since the Yushu earthquake in Qinghai Province, but as the main production area of Cordyceps in China, the impact of Yushu earthquake on the high-end pharmaceutical market has just been "fermented" As the picking season of Cordyceps is about to start from May to July, the traffic and transportation after Yushu earthquake and the picking work of Cordyceps will be greatly affected After the earthquake, many medicine manufacturers have begun to stock up and raise their retail prices Industry insiders told reporters that the price of Cordyceps had started to rise in March this year due to the rise of various agricultural products; it is expected that the price of Cordyceps will usher in a new round of rise in the second half of the year; since the 1980s, the price of Cordyceps in China has increased more than 1000 times in the past 30 years! According to the calculation of 200-300 yuan / g of medium-class Cordyceps at present, the price of 1000 g of Cordyceps is equivalent to that of a medium-class car In the interview, the reporter found that because of the high price, Cordyceps has already become the first choice for the rich to consume and give gifts, while the ordinary people simply can't afford it; and the medical experts said frankly, the medicinal value of Cordyceps has been infinitely exaggerated, and the real medicinal value is hardly matched with its "sky high price" Market situation: the price of Cordyceps increased by 40% in two months "The price of Cordyceps sold around the Spring Festival is 98 yuan / g, and now it's 138 yuan!" In a chain of Chinese drugstores, seeing the newly posted price of Cordyceps, the customer, Ms sun, took a breath She told reporters that her father suffered from senile cardiopulmonary disease It is said that Cordyceps has special effects on moistening the lungs and improving immunity Therefore, since her father left the hospital last year, she has regularly bought some Cordyceps to make soup for him Ms sun remembers that the price of Cordyceps was relatively low at the end of last year Until the Spring Festival this year, the price of middle-class Cordyceps was only around 100-150 yuan / g During the Spring Festival, the pharmacy offered a promotion price of 98 yuan / g for Cordyceps, and she bought more Unexpectedly, only two months later, the price of Cordyceps has increased a lot At present, the cheapest Cordyceps in the pharmacy is 138 yuan / g, the quality is worse than 98 yuan / g before the Spring Festival, and the ones with better quality are more than 200 yuan / g Ms Sun said that buying Cordyceps to repair the body was "luxurious" in the first place, which was also to show filial piety to the elderly She felt that the price of Cordyceps had gone up too far, and she could not afford to spend it in the future Many drugstore staff also said that the current price of Cordyceps is indeed expensive, and most of the customers bought it as a valuable gift, which ordinary consumers can't afford; or the restaurants and restaurants buy it in bulk as high-end food materials It is said that in a better restaurant in the city, the Cordyceps duck soup can be sold to 500-600 yuan / cup at will All kinds of dishes with "Cordyceps" are constantly updated Cordyceps has almost become the sign of "high price dishes" in the restaurant Although Cordyceps has been known as "soft gold" for a long time, it is difficult to distinguish the merits and demerits due to the lack of grade standards in the reporter's investigation However, during the visit, the reporter found that there is no uniform origin and grade standards for such expensive Cordyceps Even if consumers pay a large price, it is difficult to conclude that what they buy is "good goods" In Tongyi, Zoomlion, baomingtang, Yu Rensheng and many other dispensaries and tonics dealing in Cordyceps, the reporter found that the price of Cordyceps is far from the same Among them, the cheapest bulk Cordyceps is about 78 yuan / g, while the most expensive one is up to 518 yuan / g; while for the Cordyceps with package sales, the minimum 15 g package price starts from 6000 yuan, the average price is more than 400 yuan / g At the same time, compared with the common Cordyceps of 2000 specifications (4 pieces / g), the price of Cordyceps of the same grade in different pharmacies is also far from each other: in different pharmacies, the price of this kind of Cordyceps varies from 138 yuan / g to 318 yuan / g The staff explained that at present, Cordyceps has several production areas such as Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, etc the 2000 specification only represents the size of Cordyceps, but the quality of Cordyceps from different places of origin and colors is also very different, so it is not surprising that the prices are different Reporter further said, can you take out the certificate of Cordyceps from different places of origin and quality certificate? Many drugstore staff said that at present, there is no special certificate of origin for Cordyceps, mainly through various channels to get goods from local pharmaceutical farmers; while buying Cordyceps is mainly "based on experience", at present, no supplier has a unified quality certificate In addition, the reporter found that the current price of Cordyceps has already exceeded that of bird's nest Take a chain drugstore as an example The cheapest "Tibetan Cordyceps" price in the store is 138 yuan / g, while the top-level Indonesian golden bird's nest, which is listed as "three supplements" with Cordyceps, is only 72 yuan / g as the import of bird's nest also contains high tariffs, the price difference between the two is self-evident Drugstore staff also said that most of the Cordyceps sold in Shenzhen came from Tibet, and the impact of the Qinghai earthquake should be small; however, the price of Cordyceps did rise after the Spring Festival, and it is estimated that it will rise in the second half of the year The lack of funds and resources in the industry makes the price of Cordyceps soar a thousand times, a senior herbal medicine operator told reporters Cordyceps is mainly produced in Tibet and Qinghai, and the picking season is from May to July every year In recent years, the price of Cordyceps has fluctuated greatly Although the consumption of health care products is off-season now, the wholesale price of Cordyceps is high since the earthquake in Yushu, one of the main production areas in Qinghai Province The industry predicted that Cordyceps prices may continue to rise in the future Industry insiders said that capital speculation is the main reason for the sharp fluctuations in Cordyceps prices in recent years In 1983, the price of superior Cordyceps sinensis was about 300 yuan / kg, equivalent to 0.3 yuan / g in 1993, the price of superior Cordyceps sinensis had risen to 3000 yuan / kg During the SARS period in 2003, it was rumored that Cordyceps sinensis could cure all kinds of diseases, making its price soar all the way: the price of the first-class Cordyceps sinensis soared to 16000 yuan / kg, equivalent to 16 yuan / g, that is to say, from then on, Cordyceps officially entered the ranks of "luxury health products", and the pricing unit changed from "kg" to "g" By 2007, the price of Cordyceps reached the peak, of which 800 "top King grass" had reached 200000 yuan / kg in the production area, and the retail price of transported to Shenzhen and other places had reached more than 300000 yuan / kg, equivalent to 300 yuan / g, just 1000 times of the price in the early 1980s In 2007 and 2008, because of the high price, many "speculators" entered the market, and the price of Cordyceps was constantly increased In the second half of 2008, under the influence of the financial crisis, Cordyceps prices also fell, until the end of 2009, they were in a relatively "low period" But since the beginning of this year, with the price of a variety of bulk agricultural products rising, the price of Cordyceps has also stopped falling and picked up In addition to the Yushu earthquake in the main production area of Qinghai in mid April, many rich speculators have started to hoard again This year, the price of Cordyceps has almost become a set trend A number of drug dealers said that due to the huge consumption market of Cordyceps in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and other places, the purchase price of Cordyceps in Tibet, Qinghai and other production areas has also increased significantly in recent years In the early 1980s, the purchase price of Cordyceps was only tens of yuan / kg, which has risen to 450000 yuan / kg since 2005 However, consumers from the place of origin to Shenzhen and other places often have to go through three or four distributors Therefore, it is not surprising that tens of thousands of yuan / kg of Cordyceps sold in Shenzhen retail market can reach 200000-300000 yuan / kg At present, many dealers have received the price increase notice from Qinghai suppliers, but did not say the specific increase According to the insiders, the resources of Cordyceps in China are mainly distributed in Yushu, Guoluo and Naqu of Tibet In recent years, because of the destruction of ecological environment, uncontrolled collection and market capital speculation, the market price of Cordyceps will rise about 25% every year Medical experts have the same medicinal effect as Lycium barbarum So, is the Cordyceps with such "high price" really an all-round cure and high medicinal value? In this regard, medical experts have different opinions Director Song, a medical expert who has been engaged in the clinical treatment of respiratory department for many years in Shenzhen Hospital of Peking University, said that traditional Chinese medicine believes that Cordyceps can benefit the kidney, invigorate the lung, stop bleeding and dissipate phlegm, and it has certain curative effect on the treatment of waist and knee tenderness, cough deficiency and asthma caused by kidney deficiency At the same time, Cordyceps can also be used as a material into the vegetable soup, long-term consumption is good for human body However, this common Chinese medicine, which was originally used to calm the lung and kidney, has been stir fried by businesses as a panacea for invigorating the Yang, fighting cancer and curing all kinds of diseases, and the price has also soared to hundreds of thousands of yuan / kg, which is too "outrageous" He said that if we want to say the efficacy function, the utility of Chinese wolfberry and Cordyceps is basically the same, but the price is less than a fraction of Cordyceps At the same time, director song also told reporters that at present, many pharmaceutical factories in China have developed various preparations containing Cordyceps After fermentation and extraction, the effective ingredients are better than before Because most of these preparations are cultivated artificially, the price is much cheaper than the so-called wild Cordyceps The retail price of a box of 0.2 × 60 pieces of Cordyceps is only 45 yuan, less than half of the price of 1G "wild Cordyceps" Patients who need to use Cordyceps "tonic" can take this kind of medicine for a long time, not only the price is affordable, but also the treatment effect is good.