{"id":105,"date":"2012-08-07T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T10:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2020-04-09T04:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:12:00","slug":"caterpillar-fungus-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/caterpillar-fungus-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar Fungus (China)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_106\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cordyceps.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-106 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cordyceps-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Cordyceps or caterpillar fungus\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cordyceps-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cordyceps.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cordyceps or caterpillar fungus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cordyceps, also referred to as caterpillar fungus is considered an aphrodisiac in China, where it bears the name dong chong xia cao.&nbsp; This fungus is perhaps more of a parasite.&nbsp; It works by infiltrating a caterpillar larva\u2019s brains and then grows in the cavity.&nbsp; This mushroom has been known for centuries to work as a libido enhancer.&nbsp; Today it is grown and cultivated so it is available for low prices.&nbsp; If you have a hot date coming up, why not get a serving of cordyceps to split and a few glasses of champagne to wash it down?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cordyceps, also referred to as caterpillar fungus is considered an aphrodisiac in China, where it bears the name dong chong xia cao.&nbsp; This fungus is perhaps more of a parasite.&nbsp; It works by infiltrating a caterpillar larva\u2019s brains and then grows in the cavity.&nbsp; This mushroom has been known for centuries to work as a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[40,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}