Efficacy and function of cistanche deserticola.
Cistanche deserticola can significantly improve the propulsion speed of small intestine, shorten the defecation time, and significantly inhibit the water absorption of large intestine, thus promoting the wetting and excretion of feces, which has a real effect of moistening intestine and relaxing bowels.
Cistanche deserticola can also enhance immune function.
Cistanche deserticola polysaccharide has a significant effect on the formation and activity of human lymphocytes, which can increase the proliferation of lymphocytes and thus enhance the immune function of the body.
Adjust the circulatory system.
Cistanche deserticola can also regulate the circulatory system, which has the following functions: protecting ischemic myocardium; Reducing blood lipid, resisting atherosclerosis and thrombosis; Reduce peripheral vascular resistance, dilate peripheral blood vessels, and lower blood pressure; Protect the liver and resist fatty liver.
Treat amenorrhea due to kidney deficiency.
Cistanche deserticola is rich in alkaloids, crystalline neutral substances, amino acids, trace elements, vitamins and other components. Can tonify kidney yang, benefit essence and blood, and can inhibit it? Yang deficiency? Symptoms seem to prevent weight loss. It can effectively prevent and treat diseases such as impotence due to kidney deficiency in men, nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation, irregular menstruation in women, amenorrhea and infertility.
Anti-aging.
Phenylethanol sugar contained in cistanche deserticola is an ingredient that other drugs do not have. It is the most effective ingredient for delaying aging. Cistanche deserticola can obviously delay the aging of pituitary gland, gonad and thymus.
Improve sexual desire.
Chemical components such as eugenol glycoside and salidroside contained in cistanche deserticola can effectively promote the function of the central nervous system, enhance the secretion of sex hormones and the release of related transmitters, thus improving sexual desire.
It is reported that Australian medical scientist Du Weikang used the extract of cistanche deserticola to conduct a comparative test on 8 mice. The results showed that the mating times and ejaculation rate of the four mice injected with Cistanche deserticola extract were significantly increased, and their cold tolerance and cold tolerance time were also prolonged by 23 times. However, the function of the other four mice that were not injected with the extract was also significantly reduced.
Nourish.
Cistanche deserticola contains a lot of amino acids, vitamins and minerals, which is of great benefit to human health. In addition, cistanche deserticola also contains glycosides such as cistanche glycoside and mucopolysaccharide; Cistanchis glycosides A, B, C, H, eugenol glycosides, Liriodendron glycosides and 7 phenylethanoid glycosides; Contains substances similar to testosterone and estradiol; Inorganic and trace elements include potassium, sodium, calcium, zinc, manganese and copper.
Enhance physical strength.
Cistanche deserticola can increase glycogen storage, reduce muscle protein decomposition after exercise, promote adaptive hypertrophy and proliferation of mitochondria, and meet the energy needed for muscle contraction and rehabilitation. It can significantly improve the synthesis level of RNA and DNA in liver and spleen of yang-deficiency animals, and has obvious physical strength and anti-fatigue effects on yang-deficiency syndrome.
Taboos to eat cistanche deserticola 1. People with yin deficiency and flourishing fire cannot eat cistanche deserticola. Because excessive fire due to yin deficiency belongs to deficiency fire, it is mostly caused by deficiency of essence and blood. Yin deficiency cannot control Yang, while Yang deficiency is excessive. Fire due to yin deficiency is concentrated in a certain part of the body. For example, toothache, sore throat, dry lips, hot flashes caused by bone steaming, and redness and swelling of cheekbones. What is caused by yin deficiency is caused by virtual fire. Excessive fire due to yin deficiency is mostly due to excessive yang, which has a rapid onset and a short course of disease. Most of the symptoms are intense heat, red face, thirst, aversion to cold, Huang Chi in urine, constipation, even mania, coma, yellow and dry tongue coating and rapid pulse. The onset is slow and the course is long. Its main clinical features are upset and fever, red cheekbones in the afternoon, insomnia and night sweats, dry mouth and throat, dizziness and tinnitus, red tongue with little coating and rapid pulse. People with these symptoms should not eat cistanche deserticola. Cistanche deserticola nourishes kidney-yang, and the person with yin deficiency is the phenomenon that yang is abundant. If you use Cistanche deserticola to tonify yang, it will be more abundant.
2. Cistanche deserticola avoids metal objects. Cistanche deserticola can't be soaked in water or wine with iron or bronze, because such metal will absorb the nutrients of Cistanche deserticola and make it lose its own nutritional value. Is to soak cistanche deserticola in a glass.
3. Friends below18 suggest not to eat cistanche deserticola. The main function of cistanche deserticola is to tonify kidney and strengthen yang. Minors' friends are in the developmental stage and not fully mature. At this time, eating cistanche deserticola has a certain impact on all aspects of the body's development.
4. It is suggested that women should not eat cistanche during menstruation. Cistanche deserticola has a conditioning effect on female dysmenorrhea, palace cold, infertility and other diseases. Eating cistanche deserticola before menstruation can relieve dysmenorrhea. During menstruation, it is actually the discharge period of some garbage in women. It is not recommended to eat cistanche deserticola to avoid some unnecessary problems.
The morphological characteristics of cistanche deserticola are tall herbs, 40- 160 cm high, mostly underground.
The stem is unbranched or has 2-4 branches from the base, and the diameter of the lower part can reach 5- 10(- 15) cm, and it gradually tapers upward, with a diameter of 2-5 cm.
The leaves are broadly ovoid or triangular, with a length of 0.5- 1.5 cm and a width of 1-2 cm. They are dense in the lower part of the stem, sparse and narrow in the upper part, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 2-4 cm long and 0.5- 1 cm wide, with no hair on both sides. Inflorescence spikes, length 15-50 cm, diameter 4-7 cm; The lower half or all bracts of inflorescence are longer, equal to or slightly longer than corolla, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, and the outer edges and edges of bracteoles and corolla lobes are sparsely pilose or subglabrous; Bracteoles, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, as long as or slightly longer than calyx.
Calyx bell-shaped, long 1- 1.5 cm, 5-lobed at the top, suborbicular lobes, 2.5-4 mm long and 3-5 mm wide. Corolla tubular bell-shaped, 3-4 cm long, 5-lobed at the top, nearly semicircular lobes, 4-6 mm long, 0.6- 1 cm wide, slightly curled at the edge, with different colors, yellowish white or lavender, and often turns brown after drying. There are 4 stamens, the filaments are inserted at a distance of 5-6 mm from the base of the tube, with a length of 1.5-2.5 cm, wrinkled and villous at the base, and the anthers are oval, 3.5-4.5 mm long, densely villous and pointed at the base.