Nourishing National Treasure, Desert Ginseng - Cistanche Deserticola
May 20, 2024
Desert ginseng and Cistanche deserticola
Cistanche deserticola is one of the "Nine Immortal Grasses of China". It tonifies kidney yang, benefits essence, and blood, nourishes five organs, nourishes the middle and nourishes qi, and treats five labor and seven injuries. It is the most frequently used tonic treasure in China's history.
Cistanche deserticola is mainly produced in Hotan, Xinjiang. As the saying goes, "Hotan's two treasures are beautiful jade and Cistanche deserticola". In addition to the well-known Hotan Jade, Cistanche deserticola deserticola is another characteristic resource of Hotan.
Cistanche deserticola is a perennial parasitic herb that parasitizes the roots of the pioneer plant for sand control, the red willow. Cistanche deserticola can grow in rare arid desert areas with temperatures below -40 ℃ and above -60 ℃. The harsh living environment has created its resilient quality and extraordinary value, coupled with a sufficient supply of glacial meltwater and atmospheric precipitation in the Kunlun Mountains, making it a highly nutritious traditional Chinese medicine in the local area.
chinese herb cistanche
According to medical records throughout history, Cistanche deserticola:
Shennong Materia Medica Classic: Sweet taste, slightly warm. Treating five types of labor and seven types of injuries, tonifying the middle, removing cold and heat diseases in the stems, nourishing the five internal organs, strengthening yin, nourishing essence, and qi, having multiple children, treating women's abdominal pain, and taking it for a long time can lighten the body.
Famous Doctors: Sour, salty, non-toxic. Eliminate bladder evil energy, and lower back pain, and stop dysentery.
Annotations to the Compendium of Materia Medica: When it is raw, it flesh. To make lamb soup. Excellent for tonifying deficiency and fatigue. It can also be eaten raw.
The Treatise on Medicinal Properties: Benefiting the marrow, pleasing the color, and prolonging life. Treating women with blood loss and promoting male health. The Japanese imperial examination has greatly benefited.
superman herbs cistanche
The Compendium of Materia Medica: Western people often use it as a food seasoning, scraping off scales, washing with wine, removing black juice, thinly cutting, and making soup with taro and lamb, which is extremely beautiful and beneficial to people. Eating is better than taking tonics.
"Compendium of Materia Medica": This substance supplements but is not severe, so it is called "calm".
Compendium of Materia Medica: Functional for promoting yang, nourishing essence, and strengthening muscles and bones. Treat neurasthenia and impotence.
Function summary:
1. Tonify kidney yang and nourish kidney yin. Modern pharmacological research has shown that Cistanche deserticola is rich in phenylethanolamine compounds, which are characterized by glycosides from pistil and echinoside. It can increase the proliferation rate of human kidney cells by 8-10 times, and has the effects of tonifying kidney yang, nourishing essence, and blood, treating male infertility and female infertility. It can effectively alleviate stubborn diseases such as waist and knee soreness and weakness of muscles and bones.
2. Protect the liver. The functional component of Cistanche deserticola, total glycosides of Cistanche deserticola, has the effect of reducing cell apoptosis and necrosis, increasing cell survival rate, and achieving protection of primary liver cells; At the same time, it can accelerate the liver's metabolism of alcohol, help the liver detoxify and detoxify, and have a good alleviating effect on liver diseases caused by excessive alcohol consumption.
Benefits of cistanche tubulosa-Maintaining the liver
3. Whitening and beauty enhancement. The active ingredient of Cistanche deserticola, total glycosides of phenylethanol, has a significant downregulation effect on tyrosinase activity and an antioxidant effect. It can effectively inhibit skin pigmentation, remove excess spots of melanin deposition in the body, detoxify the body, regulate endocrine function, nourish the lungs, and make the skin fair and tender.
4. Prevent senile dementia. The effective component of Cistanche deserticola, total glycosides of Cistanche deserticola, promotes cell metabolism, accelerates the excretion of harmful substances, and thus protects brain cells, improving learning and memory abilities. The active ingredient phenylethanol total glycoside in Cistanche deserticola can protect nerve cells, inhibit neuronal apoptosis, improve cell survival rate, repair neurons, effectively resist Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease, and improve learning ability; The metabolites of total phenylethanol glycosides can directly act on brain cells through the blood-brain barrier, increase brain capacity, delay brain cell aging, maintain sustained brain cell activity, and effectively improve learning and memory abilities.
The effective component of Cistanche deserticola, total glycosides of Cistanche deserticola, can significantly reduce the range of cerebral infarction, improve neurological symptoms, and have a good protective effect on cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury.
5. Anti-fatigue. The phenylethanolamine in Cistanche deserticola can reduce muscle damage, delay lactate accumulation to store energy, and exert anti-fatigue effects. Cistanche deserticola can also promote the synthesis of liver glycogen, and quickly restore the body to its pre-exercise state, thereby quickly eliminating fatigue and enhancing physical strength.
6. Runchang laxative. The galactose and oligosaccharide components in Cistanche deserticola can significantly promote intestinal peristalsis, increase intestinal osmotic pressure, inhibit water absorption in the large intestine, and have the effect of promoting bowel movements without replenishing vitality. Experimental results have shown that the extract of Cistanche deserticola, rich in echinacea, has a good improvement effect on colitis induced by sodium gluconate sulfate.
7. Cistanche deserticola belongs to non-toxic traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine, which is used as food, is a very good medicinal food with the same origin.
"Father of Cistanche deserticola" Tu Pengfei
Professor Cistanche Research on the Growth of Cistanche deserticola
Tu Pengfei:
Tu Pengfei is currently a professor, doctoral supervisor, and department head of the Department of Natural Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy, Peking University. He is also the Vice Dean of the Institute of Innovative Drugs at Peking University, Director of the Center for Modern Research of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Peking University, Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for Modern Research of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Peking University. Executive member of the 10th National Pharmacopoeia Commission, Chairman of the Professional Committee for Chinese Medicinal Herbs and Beverages, and Drug Evaluation Committee member of the State Food and Drug Administration.
Tu Pengfei - Father of Cistanche deserticola
Since 1990, Professor Tu Pengfei has been engaged in systematic research and promotion of the application of Cistanche deserticola, and included it in the 2005 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia; Promote the cultivation of over 300000 mu of red willow and over 200000 mu of pipe flower deserticola in Hotan area of Xinjiang, and comprehensively control over 1.8 million mu of deserts. The promotion of research technology has effectively promoted the ecological civilization, prosperity of farmers and herdsmen, local economic development, ethnic unity, and stability of southern Xinjiang in ethnic areas, achieving huge ecological, economic, and social benefits.
It is precise because of Tu Pengfei's significant contributions to the ecological, social, and economic development of the Hotan region that he has been awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the Hotan Region Science and Technology Special Award, and is known as the "Father of Cistanche deserticola" in the industry. More importantly, the passive sand control behavior of government investment in planting Haloxylon ammodendron and red willow has now become an active sand control behavior of farmers and herdsmen actively demanding the planting of Haloxylon ammodendron and red willow.
Hetian Dichen Company, in collaboration with Professor Tu Pengfei from Peking University, has closely integrated industry, academia, and research. Based in Hetian, Xinjiang, Hetian has devoted itself to specialized research and unremitting efforts. From the traditional efficacy, material basis, mechanism of action, inoculation biology, and cultivation and planting technology research of Cistanche deserticola, to artificial breeding, large-scale planting promotion, effective ingredient extraction, health clinical application, and commercial operation model development, after more than 20 years of persistent struggle, it has implemented a vast system engineering, broken through multiple technical difficulties in artificial planting of parasitic plants internationally, and developed multiple supporting technologies and equipment for cultivation of Cistanche deserticola, such as seed germination inducers and mechanized inoculation machines. In practice, it has summarized and established a complete set of technologies and equipment for the cultivation of Cistanche deserticola. Large-scale artificial cultivation of Cistanche deserticola High yield and stable planting techniques and unique business development models.
Hetian Dichen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Co., Ltd. has been engaged in the business of Guanhua Cistanche for more than 20 years, achieving huge ecological, economic, and social benefits. It has played an important role in the prosperity of farmers and herdsmen in Xinjiang, especially in the southern region, the development of characteristic industries, and the maintenance of border stability. It has effectively promoted desert transformation, environmental restoration, and ethnic unity in Xinjiang, effectively protected the ecological resources of our country, created a new model of sustainable development for desert governance with Chinese characteristics, and set a model for the protection of rare and endangered wild species.
Effects of Cistanche-Immprove kidney function
Click here to view Cistanche for Kidney disease products
【Ask for more】 Email:cindy.xue@wecistanche.com / Whats App: 0086 18599088692 / Wechat: 18599088692
Effective ingredients of Cistanche deserticola
The main effective ingredients of Cistanche deserticola extract are poolside (ergosterol) and echinoid. The effective components of Cistanche deserticola, derived from the Hetian region of Xinjiang, were extracted using membrane separation technology. 1kg of extract was extracted from every 10kg of Cistanche deserticola slices.
The Effects of Pinellia Japonica Glycosides and Moringa Glycosides
Main Chemical Constituents of Cistanche deserticola
The phenylethanolamine glycosides in Cistanche deserticola are mainly composed of quercetin and anthocyanins, which have a wide range of pharmacological effects.
Echinacoside: Echinacoside can repair liver damage, supplement brain nutrition, repair brain cells, improve memory, prevent and assist in the treatment of senile dementia, and promote sleep. Research has confirmed that echinoids can enter the brain through the blood-brain barrier, promote the regeneration and repair of nerve cells, and have antioxidant effects. It helps repair mitochondrial damage caused by oxidation, restore normal function of mitochondria, and thus achieve the restoration and strengthening of brain function, enhancing the elasticity of brain cell membranes, increasing brain capacity, activating brain cells, and promoting brain cell metabolism.
Acteoside (also known as ergosterol): Its antioxidant capacity is 15 times higher than that of resveratrol ①, 8 times higher than that of lycopene, and 5 times higher than vitamin C. It helps to tonify the kidneys, strengthen the yang, and prevent and alleviate sexual dysfunction. It can increase testosterone, quickly stimulate sperm production and maintain vitality, make seminal vesicles full, and thus improve human sexual function.
