“…According to Chinese tradition and the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, C. sinensis can ''tonify the lung, replenish the kidneys, arrest bleeding, dissolve phlegm, treat chronic coughs, treat spontaneous sweating and restore strength after an illness'' (Zhu et al, 1998a(Zhu et al, , 1998b. More recent studies suggest that Cordyceps may have immunomodulatory (Jordan et al, 2008), pro-apoptotic (Zhang and Wu, 2007), anti-proliferative (Yang et al, 2003) and anti-fibrotic effects (Li et al, 2006;Wang et al, 2007).…”