Can children eat Cordyceps flowers?

There are still many differences between children's bodies and adults'. Because children's organs have not yet completed development, their detoxification ability is not as good as that of adults. Therefore, many things that are no problem for us adults to eat may be different for children. Therefore, we need to pay attention to children's diet, and there are many taboos that we need to pay attention to. So can children eat Cordyceps flowers?

If we want to know whether Cordyceps flower is suitable for children to eat, we must understand what Cordyceps flower is, its functions and effects, and what kind of health and wellness effects Cordyceps flower can bring us.

Cordyceps flower, also known as Cordyceps fungus, is Cordyceps militaris artificially cultivated in a culture medium.

Cordyceps flower is mild in nature, neither cold nor dry, and can be eaten safely by most people. Cordyceps flowers are rich in protein, amino acids, cordycepin, mannitol, SOD, polysaccharides and other ingredients. Among them, cordycepic acid and cordycepin can comprehensively regulate the internal environment of the human body, enhance the function of macrophages in the body, and play a certain role in enhancing and regulating the body's immune function and improving the body's disease resistance. It is beneficial to the liver and kidneys, replenishes the essence, stops bleeding and resolves phlegm. It is mainly used as an auxiliary treatment for dizziness and tinnitus, forgetfulness and insomnia, soreness of the waist and knees, impotence and premature ejaculation, long-term cough and asthma.

The fungus species of Cordyceps flower comes from Cordyceps militaris, and they have many similarities. In some places, Cordyceps militaris is used as a substitute for Cordyceps sinensis. The test results show that the contents of cordycepin, cordycepic acid, cordyceps polysaccharides, amino acids, vitamins, trace elements and other ingredients in the artificially cultivated Cordyceps militaris fruiting bodies are similar to those in Cordyceps sinensis and Cordyceps militaris. Cordyceps flowers also have many similarities with them.

The content of cordycepin in Cordyceps flower is 0.536 grams, while the content of cordycepin in wild Cordyceps is 0.006 grams; cordycepin can be used as anticancer agent, antiviral agent, antioxidant, ribonucleic acid inhibitor, bioactive substance, and antifungal agent.

The mechanism of action of cordycepin is that it has a strong inhibitory effect on the proliferation of mouse tumor cell lines. Cordycepin can penetrate into RNA and be phosphorylated into 3ˊ--ATP in cells, which will inevitably lead to mRNA absorption and maturation disorders, affecting protein synthesis, thereby achieving the effect of inhibiting tumors.

Cordycepin has a strong inhibitory effect on human nasopharyngeal carcinoma (KD) cells. Cordycepin is mostly used clinically as an auxiliary treatment for malignant tumors, with symptoms improving in more than 91.7% of cases. It is mainly used for patients with nasal cancer, pharyngeal cancer, lung cancer, leukemia, brain cancer and other malignant tumors.

It can significantly reduce the hypoxia tolerance of mice, increase myocardial nutritional blood flow, maintain arrhythmia in rats, and have a certain protective effect on stress-induced myocardial infarction in rats. It can lower blood lipids and prevent arteriosclerosis, and has a comprehensive promoting effect on hematopoietic function. Promotes cellular immunity and suppresses humoral immunity. It is considered to be a new type of immunosuppressant with effective elements. It has a certain inhibitory effect on gastric cancer and lung cancer in mice. The inhibition rate is 30%~50%. Intraperitoneal injection has an inhibitory effect on Ehrlich ascites carcinoma and can inhibit the hyperplasia and carcinogenesis of the forestomach epithelium induced by carcinogens.

It has androgen-like effects. In addition to acting through gonadal endocrine secretion, it may also act through the nervous system or other aspects.

Cardiovascular effects: Inhibits platelet aggregation.

Promote the proliferation of bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells (CFU-3), erythroid progenitor cells (CFU-E BFU-E) and bone marrow fibroblast progenitor cells (CFU-E).

Silkworm pupa cordyceps has the functions of resisting fatigue, improving body immunity, and killing cancer cells.

Above we introduced that there are differences between children and adults. Many foods are fine for us adults to eat, but may cause problems for children. The Cordyceps flowers mentioned above are very nutritious, and eating them regularly has many benefits for children's development.