Table 1.

Bioactive components and bioactivities of Chinese Cordyceps.

No.	Bioactive Components	Pharmacological Effects	Ref.
1	Adenosine	Antitumor activity	[5,6,7,8]
		Attenuation of chronic heart failure	[9]
		Anti-inflammation	[10,11,12,13,14]
		Immunomodulatory activity	[12,15]
2	Inosine	Anti-inflammation	[16]
3	Guanosine	Seizure prevention	[17]
		Immunomodulatory activity	[15]
4	Cordycepin	Antitumor activity	[18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29]
		Antibacterial activity	[20]
		Treatment for ischemic/reperfusion (IR) injury	[21]
		Anti-inflammation	[22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37]
		Immunomodulatory activity	[38,39,40]
		Antioxidant activity	[41,42]
		Cholesterol lowering effect	[43]
		Anti-fibroblast activity	[44]
5	Cordycepic acid	Diuretic effect	[45]
		Attenuating postreperfusion syndrome	[46]
		Anti-fibrosis and anti-inflammation	[47]
6	Polysaccharides	Antitumor activity	[48,49,50,51,52]
		Immunomodulatory activity	[48,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61]
		Anti-inflammation	[56,62,63]
		Antioxidant activity	[61,64,65]
		Antiviral activity	[66]
		Protective effects on kidney	[67,68]
		Hypoglycemic effect	[69]
7	Cordymin	Analgesic effect	[70]
		Anti-inflammation	[71]
		Antioxidant	[71]
		Hypoglycemic effect	[72]
8	Cordycedipeptide A	Antitumor activity	[73]
9	Tryptophan	Sedative hypnotic effect	[74]
10	Fibrinolytic enzymes	Treatment for thrombosis	[75,76]
11	Ergosterol	Cytotoxicity	[77]
		Anti-inflammation	[78]
		Anti-fibroblast activity	[79]
		Antiviral activity	[80]
12	β-Sitosterol	Cytotoxicity	[77,81]
13	5α,8α-epidioxy-22E-ergosta-6,22-dien-3β-ol	Cytotoxicity	[77]
14	5α,8α-epidioxy-22E-ergosta-6,9(11),22-trien-3β-ol	Cytotoxicity	[77]
15	5α,6α-epoxy-5α-ergosta-7,22-dien-3β-ol	Cytotoxicity	[77]
16	H1-A	Cytotoxicity	[82]
17	Cordysinin A	Anti-inflammatory	[83]
18	Cordysinin B	Anti-inflammatory	[83]
19	Cordysinin C	Anti-inflammatory	[83]
20	Cordysinin D	Anti-inflammatory	[83]
21	Cordysinin E	Anti-inflammatory	[83]