[Anticarcinogenic effect and hormonal effect of Cordyceps militaris Link]

Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 1997 Feb;22(2):111-3, inside back cover.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Cordyceps militaris (CML) has been found good for inhibiting the growth of tumor, prolonging the survival period of mice implanted with S180, inhibiting the growth and metastasis of Lewis pneumonic cancer in the implanted mice, increasing the plasm content of cortisol and testosterone in normal rats, and elevating the weight of sexual organs in normal and castrated rats. CML exerts a malehormone-like effect.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / therapeutic use*
  • Bombyx
  • Carcinoma, Lewis Lung / drug therapy*
  • Carcinoma, Lewis Lung / pathology
  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal / therapeutic use*
  • Hydrocortisone / blood
  • Hypocreales*
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Neoplasm Transplantation
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar
  • Sarcoma 180 / drug therapy*
  • Sarcoma 180 / pathology
  • Testosterone / blood
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal
  • Testosterone
  • Hydrocortisone