A fungus called Ophiocordyceps sinensis, also known as caterpillar fungus, is found in the Himalayas and often used in traditional medicine to treat illnesses like cancer. Researchers in the United ...

A woman displays the fungus for sale at a market. The fungus sprouts from the caterpillar’s head. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images News via Getty Images While many traditional Chinese/herbal medicine ...

Cancer has been one of the nefarious diseases that has been affecting the lives of many people, with limited to no known cure to remove the cells that are affecting those in the body. However, ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Numerous attempts of Chinese intrusion into Indian territory were to collect rare Himalayan fungus ‘Keeda Jadi’ (Cordyceps), the Indo-Pacific Centre for Strategic Communications ...

CHINESE consumers call it the "Himalayan Viagra'' but harvesting of a prized caterpillar fungus is leading to violence and exploitation in Tibet. The parasitic fungus, Cordyceps sinensis to science, ...

It's known as the Viagra of the Himalayas, and it can cost as much as $50,000 a pound. The world's most expensive fungus is known in Tibetan as... Yartsa gunbu (Cordyceps Sinensis) sliced in half.

The FINANCIAL — A new industry-academic partnership between the University of Oxford and biopharmaceutical company NuCana as found that chemotherapy drug NUC-7738, derived from a Himalayan fungus, has ...

The harvest of Yarsagumba (Himalayan gold) is a critical annual trek for Nepali communities, providing the main source of ...

The yarsa gumba harvesting season this year coincides with the coronavirus scare and as rumours spread about its supposed medicinal properties, there could be a run on the over-extracted Himalayan ...

Yarsa gunbu, better known outside Nepal as the Himalayan Viagra, accounts for two-fifths of the country’s non-timber exports. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Nepalis head for the hilly regions to ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - For decades a rare fungus valued as an aphrodisiac and dubbed "Himalayan Viagra" has been a source of income for poor villagers in Nepal's remote Himalayan foothills. Men, women ...