The first step was to go to the mainland and obtain some natural dongchong xiacao, from which the living fungus was extracted. They then worked to get the fungus to grow continuously in the test-tube before moving on to fast mass production in industrial vats.
量產的第一步是到大陸取得天然野生的冬蟲夏草，由其中萃取出活的菌絲體，接著以管不斷繁殖菌絲體，再放入大型的工業槽體中快速大量繁殖。