Cordyceps Season: Hunt for the World’s Most Expensive Fungus - In Season (S1E4)
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Caterpillar fungus, or cordyceps, is the most prized ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. Worth three times its weight in gold, the fungus appears every year around May and June on the Tibetan Plateau, where families pack their bags and head to the mountains to harvest this valuable remedy. Summertime in Tibet is caterpillar fungus season.
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Producer: Jessica Novia
Videographer: Wu Congwen
Editor: Hanley Chu
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Oh people don't sunbathe in the freezing cold while on all fours fully clothed?
Umm... I do
Yeah, that was a terrible attempt at a joke. Idk what they were thinking.
One reason could be the high altitude in Tibet, the hv light component in the sunlight is much more intensive than in sea levels. So It may not be a good idea to expose your skin under that environment.
Came down to the comments for this
Hahahaha
An extra piece of interesting fact: in Chinese, it’s called 冬虫夏草. 冬: winter, 虫: caterpillar in this case, 夏: summer, 草: herb or grass, plant-related(fungus here). Its name was derived from the nature of this type of medicine: caterpillar in the winter, fungus in the summer.
Thanks for infos
"The one who got the most has to treat everyone"
I think that's great, fostering happiness instead of jealousy :)
That's because those that made less are jealous and makes them pay for it.
tibetan people🥰
Haha, don't take it seriously, it is a casual banter, like when friends go out and the play games or dares.
In Chinese culture, people always fight to pay for meals, it is a part of the tradition of hospitality.
@@karthur3421 wdym "fight"?!
Zombies: we eat humans.
The chinese: we eat zombies.
True
Lucky the Chinese are eating the zombies or else we be screwed!!!
Oh please don't put up the price of the zombies westerns
🤣
Gwyneth Paltrow: hold my Goop.
People literally crawling to the ground*
Goldthread: no, they're not sunbathing
Me: yeah of course you need to crawl to the ground when sunbathing so you gets different rays from the sun smh
Looking for a comment like this
Fully clothed as well. I always sunbathe while crawling in the misty mountains fully clothed.
Sunbathing, yea That was my immediate first thought when I saw large amounts of heavily clothed people crawling around on an overcast day.
Me looking at the thumbnail: "Looks weird enough to be chinese traditional medicine"... checks out
First, I thought it was a Caterpillar...
Then I thought it wasn't a Caterpillar, but a Caterpillar shaped fungus....
And now I've learned that it WAS a Caterpillar, until it was zombified by a fungus. Holy shit, lol.
We gotta watch out for fungi, man. It might try to zombify us
The whole concept of the last of us
Ate this since i was a child with soup and loving it. I thought my dad said it was a caterpillar as a joke but its actually a real caterpillar 😑😑😑
As a seller of Cordyceps sinensis, I believe this remarkable fungus is vastly underrated and deserves more attention and research to highlight its potent properties and essential health benefits.
Like its stated in the video, this Fungus is on the decline, one reasons is over-harvesting among other reasons.
Too much attention causes extinction.
1:09 You should probably mention that it’s also found in the Himalayan ranges of Nepal as well even if they are part of the same highland plates.
yep, Its even found in Himalaya of Arunachal Pradesh close to Tibet.
If they say that china will arrest them
Yep in Uttrakhand also
@@curiousmind4208 it would lose its demand
insect: high in protein
mushroom: high in protein
insect invested mushroom: MEGA PROTEIN
I used to drink this stuff in a form of a soup. I never thought twice about it until I looked closer at it and it looks exactly like a dried up caterpillar. I asked my mother and then she said that it’s just a plant, now I watch this and I am gagging
Now you have worms living in you.
Your mother does love you
It’s good to treat sinus
You must have some interesting stories to tell.
Please think before eating any nonsense we don't want any other covid kind of pandemic ever again.
Such good vibes. “Looks for friend right away because it can get boring”, “most harvested person has to buy food”.
Oh yeah, eat more of them and let's play the last of us in real life !
Yup
Also days gone and walking dead
We won't be able to play they will eat the zombies roasted and take their brain to make medicine
I've eaten them for years. No problem.
So is it tasti
Oh man do I got a whole as video game for these people to play 😂😂
0:49 that's the entry ticket for entering into the "yarsagumba" harvesting zone of Nepal. Not only in China but it's found in and around the Tibetan plateau including Nepal.
Entry ticket? Why is this owned by private companies or indivisuals? You dont need an entry ticket to enter an area not "owned" by anybody. Also what are the criterias for entry ticket?
@@whyareyouexisting7285 This area is protected by local community under the law. It involves lot of money and along with it comes the security risk. The community provides security, necessary assistance and also manages the harvest ensuring every person get equal chance. I am not quite sure but i guess everyone from the neighbouring district can get the ticket.
Nice. I was in Litang in July 2012. Guess I missed the caterpillar fungus season! Did see a couple sky burials though.
sky burial👹
😡
@James Bond They didn't dismember them. Just cut them open and then let the birds do the work. Then they used hammers/mallets to crush the bones.
The Last of Us' fungus is inspired on this one in case you didnt know
No, it's not this one. It's the cordyceps that attack ants in the Amazon. It makes them attack other ants to infect them.
@@harrysachs2274 yup, this one actually craves for sun light to survive, not carnivorous, i doubt it would turn human into man eating zombie. perhaps, after infected, u'll only stand under sunlight for the rest of your life.
@@jamesgabriel7132 there is a bacteria i think found in ponds which can enter your brain from your ear and kill you (within weeks). There is also another one which can kinda turn you into a zombie but it will only infect your brain(not sure about this info so DYOR) there was once a case in india where people got a bacteria or virus into their brains by eating uncooked cabbage(2010-14?). You can find it in news
Fungus: i evolve to turn animals into zombies be afraid everyone
Human: ohh wow lets make a soup from it
Human stupidity🤦🏻♂️
@@rodri.gomez09Are some people so ignorant that they equates fiction onto reality?
Yes, is scary for those who unaware. But countless medicine originated from nature. Calling it humanity stupidity, you mights as well spit on entirety medical science.
Ngl, this Nima look badass with the outfit.
Style goals
I think his name is even more badass
@@heesingsia4634 lol
Is that is actual name or was he just joking lol
what an unfortunate Chinese name.
I hope this medicine can be harvested more sustainably and in accordance with their natural flow. It's often that the locals are the least to benefit from a medicine that grows on their own land.
The vast majority of what is available on the market has been grown in a lab on a caterpillar!
Proof?
@@ethanrichold7425 Joe Rogan said when he sourced Cordyceps sinensis they were lab grown on caterpillars but I think he's wrong. I did more research because I'm interested in growing them and it turns out that both Cordyceps sinensis and Cordyceps militaris can be grown in a lab with a substrate. Google even has a patent and there are several scientific papers on the subject. The one that grow wild on the Tibetan plateau are of the sinensis variety. If you buy them in powder form and it's relatively cheap then it's most likely lab grown.
@@TLK22 that’s so cool!! I’m gonna look into growing it too. Did you ever take a shot at it? Always see them in medicine shops.
That is some lovely soil. Just started using this, looking forward to see what it does.
If cordyceps ever learns to infect humans, we'll know where it started now.
Your videos are always interesting! Thank you for your hard work
Once again you cover sumthing few people knew anything about. Thanks for being original and sharing. Best wishes luck and love. Whatever you do have a Fantastic day
Honestly, sometimes I think about foods that humans consume and wonder about the psyche of the first person who was like: Yes, gonna stomp on some grapes and throw it in a vat and wait until it rots and drink it. Yes, that curdled milk that that has blue-green fungus and smells funky--gonna stick that in my mouth. Yes, this weird caterpillar looking root thing--gonna eat it.
💀👀.
🐛👅 if your hungry enough you’ll 🙄eat anything...
if you live then I guess it’s ok
My name is "Your mum" 2:44🤣
Dude was trolling the camera crew so hard
This is almost how the Last of Us started.
how?
Fun fact: If you go to Endia you'll see lots of dirty disgusting stinky slums
Guy: The name's Ni Ma
Chinese: *giggles
I think this is wonderful. There are people here in the US that travel long distances every year in search of mushrooms. This is no different in my view. It would be a fun adventure!
I'd be tempted to unlock the secret to cultivation at that price. I wonder what conditions are necessary for both the fungus and the caterpillar to thrive.
Many have tried and failed
Sure but the thing is they're overharvesting to the point that it's doing a real damper on the population
It is also found in high altitude of some districts of Nepal .We call it Yarshagumba and it is very beneficial for health.
Really cool video, thanks for the great content as always!
Just a thought, it might be cool to see some of how this fungus is used and prepared also! But this was a really great video and I liked it
My mom use to make this in soup and it was really good but it use to cost $20 a pound now it’s $200 per pound
Houses used to cost 7 times the average income. Now they cost over 30 times the average income (in Canada).
so these people are looking for Tibetan bitcoins
$200 a pound???? It around $20,000 a pound ( yes 20,000 usd)
imagine working 9-5 with those beautiful views around you
just wait until the fungus learn and mutation to human's head instead of caterpilar😂
Plot twist it already does. Those who consume will seek for more.
look for cordyceps militaris. that one infects ants and other insects in the wild and isn't limited to highlands. it's also one that can be farmed using silkworm pupa as hosts, and likely what's in GOOP's cordyceps powder because it's a lot cheaper as it can be mass produced.
@Xeirux most likely not. but ya never know. life finds a way. 😉
It's expensive but it's very good for our body. I consume it a lot when I was a child bcoz I was so sick and weak. I can feel the difference after a while and feel more energetic. I still consume it now but the tcm shop combine this cordyceps with other herbal medicines and make a good mixture of herbs for nourishment.
The Cordyceps took over your brain to advertise this, so more humans can consume it, and turned into zombies!
@@k12i is this a joke?
damn, I definitely chewed on these as a kid. I had no idea they were real caterpillars they just told me it was shaped like one
The best ones are from Bhutan 🇧🇹 we call it yartzagyuenbup (summer grass, winter bug)
Hello cutie
D YANG Creep
@@aspergillusoryzae3722 Hello Ugly
D YANG Lol is that an insult? It's creepy to call a complete stranger (and based on a profile pic) a cutie, so you're a creep.
D YANG Don't be dumb now.
Wow! That's super interesting! Thanks a lot for this video! 😊
Use to have that as medicinal broth all the time when I was little. I ate the caterpillar when I was done, but not the fungus stem.
I have no problem trying weird food.
And it's rather tasteless as far as I can remember. Just a very thin dried mushroom.
@@theolich4384
Pretty much. A papery mushroom. It was with some chinese herbal soup so it had some of that flavor for me.
I actually take cordyceps I started at the begging of the pandemic studies found that it improves lung function! I wanted to give myself the best shot just in case I caught covid. And It’s helped with my athletic endurance a lot! Definitely look into medicinal mushrooms if your looking to boost your immunity! 🍄
@ SistaGala. do you think taking cordiceps can help a 68 year old man who has no energy and tired all the time? I'm going to try and grow them.
@@ranjanty You cannot grow them, they're limited to certain regions of Nepal and Tibet. That's why they're expensive
@@macrick yes I can grow cordiceps militaras not cordiceps sinesis.
Am I the only one who's afraid of cordyceps? Lmao jk
Is nothing is medicinal and mild.
It depends on your daily dosages
Why do I feel like this will lead to zombies like how the bat led to COVID...
Bill Gates laughing with his covid patent.
Literal last of us fungus.... would not be eating that :S
....ofcourse goop is selling it....
This rose tea supports overall wellness with cordyceps mushroom and organic schisandra. And its pleasant, slightly minty taste is great in hot water alone. Or you can add nut milk or blend with ghee…
I just BOUGHT a box of these MEDICINE cordycept for$40
@@salinawhite7669Well, it's not exactly the same species but a related one (C. militaris). Or you got mycelium which has a lot less potency
I CAN'T take THESE MEDICINE OF mushroom got allergic reactions rashes ALL OVER THE my body
I know you have no idea how dumb this comment is. But I'm here to tell you, the answer is very.
China about to start another one
....I literally saw these creepy crawly caterpillar parasite thingies in the Chinese herbal shop last week O_O I had no idea what they were but kept looking at them. Now I know...
Frankly the most interesting thing I learned was right at the beginning: the narrator is sunbathing fully clothed while crawling on all fours.
These things are literally gold in Asian countries. They are prized for their health benefits.
Ni Ma’s voice sounds cool
its good medicine specially when you have cough, it is good for any kind of soup
@Greg David I think it will help, in some cases...
it is called yarshagumba in Nepal and it is also found in high altitude here.
Why they not train dog to smell it I believe that will more efficient, any fungus has distinct smell.
Thats a very clever way to find it!
People already doing it for Truffle, and I wonder why they still crawling like that for cordycept
@@thatsawesome2060 because the dogs might damage it. You can see that it's horns pops out of the soil and if the dog snifs it then they will scratch it with its paws thus breaking the fungi unlike the triffle which is kind of solid
@@EngrGuil that depends how you train them, some dog train to scratch, some dog train to bark sit like explosive and drug hunt dog, you don't want the dog to bite an scratch an explosive bag their smell don't you?
The momment you said its used in Goop a known MLM
And doing some digging im seeing its completely useless.
This is one of my new favorite channels
It's called yarshagumba in Nepal and it can be found also in himalayan region of Nepal
I wonder how vegan will react to this
They're used to overspending on stuff that doesn't actually do anything so I'd guess they'd be sympathetic.
Technically they are not eating an animal product as the Caterpillar is long dead when the fungus grows. I think this would be considered vegan.
@@rugvedkulkarni1593 technically yes but a big number of vegans are only doing it for the trend so their pea brains won’t know
@@catsballs9657 I think vegans already have a fungus growing in their brains telling them not to eat meat
Loved It!
2:52 marvelous background
we have the some of the oldest transcribed history and culture in the world but we run some worm and fungus to extinction. lol
Tried before, taste like mushroom with jello with shear of bitter.
101 will not eat again.
If you make chicken broth with it with goji berry and date to reduce the bitterness and other mushrooms to add the expected mushroom-y taste it’s not too bad.
The fact that (what i'm assuming is) 2k $ avg to 4-7k in a good year in a two months season, working 9-5 (and probably more) is incredibly sad and just about shows how poor some regions of China are. Even if this "pay" is per a single month, per person it's still INCREDIBLY low money.
Ellie & Joel approve this 👍
I just started growing these . It’s super cool , would like to try it other ways
this can be found in nepal (himalayan region)do watch ❤️🇳🇵🇳🇵
Also Bhutan
Well everything is traditional and expensive for chinese medicine...
And it doesn't work
@@ironpulcinella3586 Then don't eat it.
Chinese medicine or aphrodisiacs for Chinese men
@@rangoman1815 It's Medicine, but Western media loves to emphasize on the sex stuff, because they are obsessed with it. People don't use it specifically for virility.
@@jutau Western media? Why blame west for no reason? It's known in Chinese community as the aphrodisiacs and for many other purposes...just like many endangered animal parts for example from pangolins, red panda, bear gal bladder, rhino tusk, shark fins, etc...all these things are known as medicine in Chinese culture...
they also grow in the daintree rainforest in australia
wow well this is how the last of us started ;-;
I don't see why this can't be mass produced on a farm.
Peta would lose their minds over that lol
Don’t you? How about because it’s barbaric....
@@franklinchen5279 lol away...it isn’t effing funny. Frankly your mindset is the kind that the world could do without.
@@Kittiesdawn lol
Your information is wrong....It’s found in high altitude places of Nepal too !
literally in every video about the himalayas there is one guy that says its in nepal.
mingursurshar thank you for your comment
the way this showed up in my recommended immediately after i watched an episode of hoozuki no reitetsu
Very interesting video, Thank you. 加油
Just played last of us and this popped out of nowhere in my autoplay
Can it “breed” grew artificially?
If u have the fungus. Sure.
You also need live caterpillars
yes and there are, but people think the artificial ones have weaker or no health benefits.
Everyone : Cordyceps, zombies, medicine yadayadayada
Me: Nima *points at him
Hard working folks but if they pay good for it then all worth it👍🏻..
Caterpillar fungus was mentioned in the chinese drama Ashes of Love with Deng Lun and Yang Zi😃
this is how zombie apocalypse starts...
Lol thats redundant and brainless
Boy, they really like playing with fire with their food over there, eh?
It only affect insects not people, it’s actually a really popular supplement even I take it
Thanks. This is important for people in the world to know that Tibetan people are living a life where they can freely choose whatever they want for a living (of course legal things only) and they are not in any form of threatening, war or confinement!!
Beautiful video :)))))
I wonder if the medicinal purpose of this caterpillar fungus is real. They should do a study on it. If it is true, then I understand why it's so expensive. I suspect it is genuinely effective considering how it's been used for centuries to treat ailments.
It’s been studied & it’s a cure for many things which is why big pharma will never embrace it= They make $ off illnesses not cures
@@kimlarso On the other hand, there are lot of fake cordyceps sellers who just want to make money. But this fungus is healing in my experience.
With a right tune "Ni Ma" could translate into "Your Mom" or "Your Horse"
Yep like “cau ni ma” lol
alpaca! - www.goldthread2.com/travel/caonima-alpaca-farm-england/article/3040250
Last of Us just entered the chat lol
Thank you guys that was amazing!
When the Cordyceps jump into humans we're gonna have Last of Us or World War Z
Ahh yes the zombie apocalypse is nearing
Fun fact: If you go to Endia 🇮🇳 you'll see lots of dirty disgusting stinky slums
I sure hope there is an Ellie among caterpillar.
🤣 cLiMaTe ChAnGe!
2:57 he said a colorful word 👁️👄👁️
you mean this? ruclips.net/video/YG4iTGjuoKw/видео.html
It is pronounced Nà Gè basically means ‘that’ but can also be a replacement for “um” “erm” when someone is trying to think of what to say. In certain chinese accents it can sound like the n-word but it isnt. The korean word for “I” also sounds similar
@@sophie987g before you reply to comments like these, you should always check their name to see if worth your time.
Free Tibet.
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Free Syria!
Free Iran!
withdraw your terrorist army !!
cope, then go free America from White colonizers and send them all back to Europe.😂😂😂😂😂
Oh my caterpillars
That's it, I'm getting my flight tickets and I'm gonna bring it back tons of it
Interesting :)
I searched for this to escape from zombie apocalypse like of last of us
In Nepal too..
The Himalaya areas.
We call Yasha gumba..
Me thinking that cordyceps are nature's weird product that looked like an animal: Wow.
Me finding out that it was parasitic fungus that turned the caterpillar as food and shell: Wow. Nature is scary.
Uhhhhhhhh no thanks. I do like truffles tho so I understand but also it's a zombie caterpillar and that icks me
your problem
Just one t a s t e
you are not eating it for the taste. Nobody would ever eat this for the taste. It is for the health benefits...
more for me then
I actually threw this when I was scooping soup, my Chinese friends were so shocked and stopped me. They educated me after that 😂
Man, I miss China
Educated based on what exactly?
@@Seeker_of_F1r3 educated me about this food
@@MultiRainday And they said it worked?
@@Seeker_of_F1r3 It's the most expensive meal worm for a reason. I still didnt eat it
I find cordiceps on caterpillars in my uk garden.
Before USAmerica getting themselves eaten by Zombies, Human population used to eat zombies as medicine or as food.