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The use of cordyceps by China’s Olympic athletes
to increase endurance may owe in part to this relaxing
effect on the airways. As reported by Newsweek (September
27, 1993), when China’s Olympic women’s running
team broke not one but three record distances at the World
Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Germany in
August 1993, rumors began to circulate of “drug” use.
Gold medals were awarded to China’s runners for the
10,000, 3,000 and 1,500 meter competitions. Weeks later
at the National Games in China in October 1993, the same
runners laid to rest another three world records, in the
course shaving 42 seconds from the 10,000 meter event,
The question raised by officials in Germany is
how could they break so many records in such a short time
without taking drugs? Their coach insisted that drugs had
nothing to do with it. The running team did recruit sports
medicine experts from East Germany and they did take a
special diet consisting of herbs and a potion made from
cordyceps. But the head of the international governing
body that polices drug violations for track teams could see
no evidence of banned substance use. The coach of the
Chinese women’s Olympic running team insisted that the
secret of their success was cordyceps, and that he expected
his team would perform even better at the 1996 Olympics.
The effects of cordyceps on the airways-lessening
their resistance to relaxing and opening-could also help to
explain the traditional use of this medicinal plant in treating
various diseases of the upper respiratory tract, such as
pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema, and
tuberculosis. And because cordyceps is regarded in
Chinese medicine as an anti-asthmatic, an expectorant and
as a cough suppressant, it could become an important
ingredient in herbal cough drops and cough syrups.
to increase endurance may owe in part to this relaxing
effect on the airways. As reported by Newsweek (September
27, 1993), when China’s Olympic women’s running
team broke not one but three record distances at the World
Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Germany in
August 1993, rumors began to circulate of “drug” use.
Gold medals were awarded to China’s runners for the
10,000, 3,000 and 1,500 meter competitions. Weeks later
at the National Games in China in October 1993, the same
runners laid to rest another three world records, in the
course shaving 42 seconds from the 10,000 meter event,
The question raised by officials in Germany is
how could they break so many records in such a short time
without taking drugs? Their coach insisted that drugs had
nothing to do with it. The running team did recruit sports
medicine experts from East Germany and they did take a
special diet consisting of herbs and a potion made from
cordyceps. But the head of the international governing
body that polices drug violations for track teams could see
no evidence of banned substance use. The coach of the
Chinese women’s Olympic running team insisted that the
secret of their success was cordyceps, and that he expected
his team would perform even better at the 1996 Olympics.
The effects of cordyceps on the airways-lessening
their resistance to relaxing and opening-could also help to
explain the traditional use of this medicinal plant in treating
various diseases of the upper respiratory tract, such as
pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema, and
tuberculosis. And because cordyceps is regarded in
Chinese medicine as an anti-asthmatic, an expectorant and
as a cough suppressant, it could become an important
ingredient in herbal cough drops and cough syrups.
