ARTIFICIAL CULTIVATION OF FRUIT BODY OF CORDYCEPS SINENSIS (BERK) SACC.

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently utilize a chrysalis of dead silkworm after spinning raw silk formerly utilized only as feed or fertilizer as a solid medium and enable to artificially culture a mushroom-like fruit body having excellent medicinal effect and convenient to drink after dipping in low-class distilled spirits or decocting in a large amount all over the year by combinedly using a liquid medium. SOLUTION: A chrysalis 1 of dead silkworm after spinning raw silk from cocoon is dried, put into a test tube 2, a liquid medium 3 is poured into the test tube so as a part of the chrysalis 1 of the cocoon to be exposed in the air, and a fungus of Cordyceps sinesis (Berk) sacc. parasitic in a chrysalis of an insect belonging to the order Lepidoptera such as a butterfly and a moth is inoculated, then the fungus is cultured to form a fruit body on the chrysalis 1 of a silkworm.