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Nepal harvest rush threatens ``Himalayan Viagra'' 2012-08-01
By Reuters Health

For decades a rare fungus valued as
an aphrodisiac and dubbed ``Himalayan Viagra'' has been a source
of income for poor villagers in Nepal's remote Himalayan
foothills. Men, women and children stream into high meadows
every year to harvest the fungus called Yarsagumba, which grows
from dead moth larvae. High quality specimens fetch thousands
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of dollars a kilo.


 
 
 
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