Aweto calls Chinese caterpillar fungus or wintry Chinese caterpillar fungus again, it is bug and a kind of when grass is united in wedlock together to grow queer thing, winter is insect, summer grows a grass from insect. Bug is the larva of moth of bat of Chinese caterpillar fungus, grass is fungus of a kind of Chinese caterpillar fungus. How grow? The summer, insect originates in egg the Hua Xie of brushwood to go up, fall to the ground along with blade. Through a month or so hatch becomes larva, get damp and loose earth layer. There is the ascus spore of fungus of a kind of Chinese caterpillar fungus in earthy layer, it invades the larva with those stout and strong, good growth only. After larva is invaded by spore, get to ground shallow-layer, spore grows inside larval body, larval splanchnic disappeared slowly, an outer form that fills hypha becomes inside body, bury is in earthy layer. Through a winter, to the 2nd year spring comes, hypha begins to grow, grow an area to summerly weather, blossom a small grass, such, larval the body and small grass comprised jointly complete " aweto " .
Aweto is the valuable Chinese traditional medicine with famous Tibet. Tibetan medicine document thinks sex of aweto flavour pleasant is lukewarm, gas of profit of seed having secretary, protect hemostatic and lobar filling kidney, expectorant effect. Clinical research makes clear latter-day medicine, aweto is blood of remedial fatigue expectoration, night sweat, can impotent, seminal emission, yellow bravery disease, tuberculosis and old age are feeble, chronic cough the disease such as asthma, have hold convergent and composed effect concurrently lustily.
Aweto with dry child be used as medicine with bug body, flavour pleasant, sex is lukewarm, angry sweet, the kidney that enter lung 2 classics, beneficial lung kidney, filling bones and muscles, relieve a cough asthma, fight the action such as consenescence, wait to all have power to n/med tuberculosis bacterium, hepatitis bacterium. Make already on aweto tradition officinal, make edible again, it is the curiosa of nourishing health care with famed China and foreign countries.
Best aweto grows in that Ba Qing mostly, for instance, all alone county, each district if: Lin Zhi, prosperous wait to also grow aweto. It is very difficult that artificial now implantation returns Chinese caterpillar fungus, that is to say, aweto still cannot be planted, grow in the environment that can rely on nature only.
True Chinese caterpillar fungus immerses with boiled water, bug system runs expand and soft, bacterium lubricious accentuation is become black Brown, bug body and bacterium close be linked together, do not fall off. Steep is small have a stink. Because price of Chinese caterpillar fungus is high, with dosage big, demand exceeds supply, a few illegal pedlar, think all method to make false Chinese caterpillar fungus. Some uses the production holiday Chinese caterpillar fungus such as bamboo shoot of cutworm, ground, mix the false with the genuine, make a few differentiate the Chinese traditional medicine with stronger capability the expert need not manage change also differentiate a method hard. But, should have only taller differentiate capability, careful observation, OK still identifying. Colour and lustre of false Chinese caterpillar fungus fizzles out slightly than true Chinese caterpillar fungus and colour and lustre is not shining, scrutiny yellow takes bit of form, flavour is smelly, section kind white has scotoma and have pith accent. Other exterior is mixed completely true Chinese caterpillar fungus is same. After false Chinese caterpillar fungus immerses 10 minutes with boiled water, can show original shape slowly, yellow opens an embryo to fall off, false bacterium also begin to fall off, as apart as bug body. Bug body some turns a plant into rhizome, cutworm, some turns deadlocked silkworm into body, bacterium the day lily that becomes kind of white slowly, black Brown color is retreated completely, immersing boiled water becomes shallow black gradually, small have stickiness. The person that hope wide ambassador is used notices to identify, take strict precautions against false winter Chinese caterpillar fungus to endanger your health.