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Cordyceps

  This article is part of my thesis “Fuelwood Consumption and Production in Alpine Bhutan: A case study in Wangchuck Centennial Park, Bumthang, Bhutan). I have also worked on uses of Cordyceps in Pharmaceutical industries long time back, but could not trace out as of now. If people are interested I will try to re-write it and publish it. I have also cited references, in-case if any readers is interested to explore further. I will also try to provide papers to those who are interested to know more about the organism. What is Cordyceps Cordyceps sinensis is an Ascomycetes medical fungus with a long and illustrious history. The genus Cordyceps is mostly entomophagous flask fungi belonging to the family Clavicipataceae (Winkler, 2008). Although it is not actually a mushroom in the taxonomic sense, it has been regarded as a medicinal mushroom for centuries. The name Cordyceps comes from the Latin words “cord” and “ceps”, meaning, “club” and “head”, respectively (Holliday et al., 2005). Th

Lesson from My Fishing Trip

Rainy Lake   I strongly believe in religion and support all the noble acts, but avoids unnecessary and craze to receive “wang” from every religious figure that I encounter. Everyday I start my day with water and butter lamp offering and reciting short prayers. I believe, this keeps me going and makes my day worth. As I child, I had my own catapult which I used to hunt birds just for fun. It was fun for me during that part of my time but not for the poor birds, probably about 3 birds I remembered hitting. I guess I was not turning out to be good human being than. The change in my attitude towards them came when I was in class IV. From the very beginning of my life, I was trained as a cook (probably, this may be the reason of my passion towards cooking and my craze to try and prepare different cuisine) to prepare meals to my Lt. Grand Father who would spend his time meditating. Once, I set a trap to catch fish which would come right by our house during summer as there used to be smal

Cruel, Lively, Innovative. The Interesting Brain of Human

Source: http://hubpages.com   Have you ever wondered on what Sir. Issac Newton formulated as his “THIRD” law of motion, “Every action has equal and opposite reaction”. I read somewhere that, one new and young brain trying to prove it wrong. I am sorry I couldn’t follow it for long. But, as for me I guess “Third law of motion” proves its validity everywhere in our day to day activities and new inventions. Human beings are known as “super power” and I guess whosoever coined that term has undergone in-depth analysis and proposed the phrase. But, super power in what?? It can be defined and looked from various angle by different people with different brains. May be construction as well as power to destroy the natural beauty (thinking right) and again trying to get back to natural beauty, though artificially (probably thinking, what one thought right earlier was wrong). That is the power possessed by human beings to alter things in his/her own desire with the brain that he/she possess