Harvesting yartsa gunbu provides an income for many people in Nepal Jitendra Raj Bajracharya/ICIMOD
The hunt for a fungus that is worth more than its weight in gold as a traditional medicine is transforming the Himalayan landscape on which it grows. To learn more, I have come to the in Kathmandu, Nepal, where I am watching the preparation of a tea made from yartsa gunbu, a 鈥渃ure-all鈥 fungus that may be the world鈥檚 most expensive natural resource.
Tsultrim Rabsel grinds…
