“冬天是虫,夏天是草,医食通用是个宝。”这句民间顺口溜说的正是我国的一味名贵中草药——冬虫夏草,又称虫草、夏草冬虫、冬虫草,它与人参、鹿茸齐名,为中国三宝之一。虽名字中有“虫”、“草”二字,但冬虫夏草既非虫亦非草,它属于子囊菌纲,肉座菌目,麦角菌科,虫草属,是虫草属真菌寄生在昆虫-蝙蝠类上的结合体,蝙蝠类幼虫经虫草菌感染在冬天钻入地下致病死 “Winter is a pest, the summer is the grass, medical food is a treasure.” This is a private jingle that blindly expensive Chinese herbal medicine - Cordyceps sinensis, also known as Cordyceps, summer grass Cordyceps, Cordyceps, it ginseng , Velvet parrot, one of China’s Sambo. Although the name of “insects ”, “grass ” word, but Cordyceps sinensis is neither a worm nor grass, which belongs to Ascomycetes, Hypocrealesceae, ergot family, Cordyceps, Cordyceps parasitic fungi In the insect - bats on the combination of bat larvae infected by Cordyceps bacteria in the winter into the ground to death