Yarsagumba - the gold rush

 Yarsagumba, Yarshagumba or Yarchagumba is an uncommon and interesting herb that develops in the glades above 3,500 meters (11,483 feet) in the Himalayan locale of Nepal. There are different sorts of well known restorative plants found in Nepal however the fame of yarsagumba is basically overpowering. For the last couple of years, the exchange of yarsagumba is expanding and it has been viewed as a costly life sparing tonic. Cerebral pain, toothache or some other sickness - yarsagumba is the cure. Furthermore, not just that, it is likewise accepted to be a cure for sexual impotency – a Himalayan Herbal Viagra. 

Yarsagumba with its Latin name cordyceps sinesis actually implies summer plant and winter bug in Tibetan. Before the blustery season starts, spores of the cordyceps mushroom settle on the leaders of caterpillars' that lives underground. The organism gets such a great amount into the body of the caterpillars' that it becomes out through its head and empties all the vitality out of the bug and at last it kicks the bucket. 

Consistently amid May and June, a large number of villagers from remote regions taking a chance with their own lives head for high mountains to gather yarsagumba. It is assessed that one villager can procure up to Rs. 2,500 roughly to $35 a day by gathering yarsagumba which is past the month to month pay of numerous Nepalese family units. Dolpa – a remote locale in western Nepal with high soak valleys and dry atmosphere is one of the chief zones for gathering yarsagumba. Just about half of the yearly supply of yarsagumba originates from Dolpa alone. Here, the grown-ups as well as take informal occasions looking for the gold rush. 

Accumulation of yarsagumba was unlawful until 2001 yet taking after its ubiquity and the campaigning from different associations, the Government lifted the boycott however forced an eminence rate of Rs. 20,000 (US$ 280) per kilogram (2.2lbs). One kilo of yarsagumba that expenses about Rs. 315 (US$ 5/6) in 1992 expanded to Rs. 105,000 (US$ 1,435) by the year 2002 and the cost has been shooting up so as the universal enthusiasm on the baffling half-caterpillar-half-mushroom known as yarsagumba.