JAKARTA - A variety of side effects on the use of Viagra made many people turn to traditional herb to treat impotence or impotence. One was wearing a silk worm carcasses, especially those who died because his body to fungal attack.
Silkworm carcasses which have been dried and still overgrown with fungi are usually consumed by mixing into the cereal for breakfast. Some people choose to use other means, namely menyeduhnya like tea.
Residents in the vicinity of the Himalayas including Tibet, Nepal and India know this herb for generations since hundreds of years ago. In the local language, silkworm carcasses herb is called yarsagumba or dong Chong Xia Cao.
Yarsagumba is a concoction made from carcasses which had been dried silkworms. Silkworm silk used must come from a height of 3500 meters above sea level and have died of certain fungal infections, because it is said that the fungus is actually more nutritious.
Silkworm carcasses which have been dried and still overgrown with fungi are usually consumed by mixing into the cereal for breakfast. Some people choose to use other means, namely menyeduhnya like tea.
Residents in the vicinity of the Himalayas including Tibet, Nepal and India know this herb for generations since hundreds of years ago. In the local language, silkworm carcasses herb is called yarsagumba or dong Chong Xia Cao.
Yarsagumba is a concoction made from carcasses which had been dried silkworms. Silkworm silk used must come from a height of 3500 meters above sea level and have died of certain fungal infections, because it is said that the fungus is actually more nutritious.
In addition to treat impotence, yarsagumba also useful for treating other diseases. In lower doses, this herb is also used to solve various problems in the respiratory system, especially in asthma attacks or shortness of breath.
Some twenty years ago, yarsagumba can be obtained only at a price of U.S. $ 6.5 or about Rp 56 thousand per ounce. But lately after a widely known throughout the world, this traditional herb price rocketed to $ 800 (USD 8 million) per ounce.
Thomas Leung, the owner of a Chinese drug store in New York said the high cost of ingredients yarsagumba caused by high demand. And to get the carcass silkworms is overgrown fungus is not easy, it takes
struggle because there are only in the Himalayas.
"Actually, many applicants simply because of excessive publication. I personally if asked whether actually work, my answer may not be comparable to U.S. $ 800 that you pay," said Leung was quoted as saying of Dailymail, Wednesday (01/26/2011) .
Some twenty years ago, yarsagumba can be obtained only at a price of U.S. $ 6.5 or about Rp 56 thousand per ounce. But lately after a widely known throughout the world, this traditional herb price rocketed to $ 800 (USD 8 million) per ounce.
Thomas Leung, the owner of a Chinese drug store in New York said the high cost of ingredients yarsagumba caused by high demand. And to get the carcass silkworms is overgrown fungus is not easy, it takes
struggle because there are only in the Himalayas.
"Actually, many applicants simply because of excessive publication. I personally if asked whether actually work, my answer may not be comparable to U.S. $ 800 that you pay," said Leung was quoted as saying of Dailymail, Wednesday (01/26/2011) .
Source : detikHealth
