which is better than with nature's version. Good medicine, bad medicine Although the ancient medical texts do describe C. senensis as good for the kidneys and a remedy for impotence, once the news media started billing the biotech version as the Chinese Viagra both Chang Chun-ming and Yang Po-wen came forward to declare that the fungus lacked Viagra's ability to quickly and directly bring about erections.
儘管冬蟲夏草在典籍上有補腎及治療陽萎的功效，也有媒體以「中國威而鋼」來介紹這項生物科技新產品，然而張純銘與楊博文都表示冬蟲夏草是無法像西藥威而鋼那樣快速直接、立竿見影的讓陰莖勃起或增強性能力。