Cordycep Militaris have huge medicinal properties. Meet the Man who discovered them.

Have you heard of these Super Mushrooms that contain so many healthy properties? Yes, It possesses anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-ageing, anti-microbial, anti-diabetic and anti-viral properties, they are delicious and medicinally valuable too.  All these medicinal values piqued the curiosity of Dr Sandeep Das, who is a 40-year-old Professor and Dean of Faculty of Science & Technology at the Bodoland University in Assam. He has been actively researching about different kinds of Mushrooms for the past 8 years. When he found about this super mushroom Cordyceps Militaris he got really inquisitive.

Discovery of Cordyceps Militaris

When Sandeep joined The Bodoland University in September 2012, his curriculum demanded research on Single-Celled Proteins. Mushrooms were the best example of it. But for the research, there were no seeds of mushroom to grow them in the laboratory.

One fine day, Sandeep and his research scholars were sipping tea in a sweet shop; there they found a fresh set of mushrooms kept in their glass showcase for sale. Since they didn’t have the spawn (seed) for the mushroom, they got really excited and found the farmer who grew this oyster mushroom and got the spawn from him. This is how he got introduced to mushrooms.