Cordyceps is often touted as a natural energy booster. Proponents also claim that cordyceps can protect against health problems like asthma, depression, diabetes, fatigue, high cholesterol, and upper respiratory tract infections. Cordyceps is also purported to boost athletic performance and anticancer.

Traditional approaches for the determination of major bioactive components in Cordyceps, such as adenosine and cordycepin, involve analytical techniques to determine the concentration, such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) which is available at RTRC Lab.