Cistanche Cistanche is the succulent stem of Cistanche Cistanche or Cistanche Cistanche, Cistanche Cistanche, etc. Both spring and autumn can be harvested. However, it is better to pick them between March and May, and they are hollow when they are outdated. Those harvested in spring, usually half buried in sandy soil and sun-dried.
Taste: Sweet and salty, warm in nature.
Cistanche Indications
For impotence, infertility, weak waist and knees, urinary incontinence, enuresis, deafness and tinnitus, muscle and bone weakness, dark eyesight, premature graying of hair and hair, diabetes, intestinal dryness and constipation, metrorrhagia, vaginal discharge, etc. Modern use for senile polyuria, skeletal fluorosis, bone hyperplasia, myelofibrosis, recurrent aphthous ulcers, uterine fibroids and so on.
Modern pharmacological research of Cistanche deserticola
1. Cistanche can excite pituitary-adrenocortical hormones, improve immune function, and enhance the phagocytic ability of mononuclear macrophages.
2. Cistanche has the effect of invigorating the kidney and helping yang, and can resist cold, hypoxia and fatigue.
3. Cistanche has a regulating effect on the endocrine system and has a certain protective effect on renal function.
4. Cistanche deserticola has a certain influence on the content of neurotransmitters, which can improve the intelligence, memory and sexual function of mice.
5. Cistanche deserticola has the effect of promoting defecation, can improve intestinal muscle function, and has a certain liver protection effect.
6. Cistanche can improve the activity of superoxide dismutase, inhibit the production of lipid peroxides, have obvious anti-aging, anti-free radical damage, free radical scavenging effects, and can prolong the life of animals.
7. Cistanche deserticola has antihypertensive effect, and its glycosides can promote cellular immune function in mice.
8. Cistanche has the effect of promoting growth and development, and has the effect of promoting cellular immune function in the body.
Cistanche ingredients
It mainly contains phenylethyl alcohol glycosides echinacoside, vervain glycoside, cistanche glycoside, eugenol glycoside, echinacea glycoside, tuliposide; it also contains betaine, amino acid and polysaccharide. It has the functions of improving gastrointestinal function, enhancing immunity, delaying aging, anti-senile dementia and sex hormone-like.
