Cistanches are a traditional and valuable Chinese herb， which is commonly used to tonify the kidneys and has various effects.

Cistanches is a desert parasitic plant found in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, and Xinjiang, and is known as "Desert Ginseng" and “

Desert Gods”. Cistanches is a valuable traditional Chinese herb and one of the most frequently used tonic drugs in prescriptions for kidney aphrodisiacs.

 

Cistanche has been recorded in the Qin and Han dynasties and have been prized as a tribute to the imperial court since the Han Dynasty. Today, it has become a healthy food for the urban aristocracy.

 

Cistanche is grown in the desert and have many therapeutic effects such as tonifying the kidneys and benefiting the essence, laxative and slowing down the aging process.

 

Cistanche is mainly divided into two types, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. Xinjiang Cistanches are square-shaped or slightly flat, gray-brown or gray-brown, with coarse and sparse scale marks and yellow-brown cross-section; Inner Mongolia Cistanches are flat square-shaped, slightly curved, dark brown, with precise scales and dark brown to brown cross-section, some of them are dark brown and oily.

 

Cistanches contain a large number of amino acids, vitamins, and minerals, the glycoside cistanche, and mucopolysaccharides. For example, it contains phenylpropanoid glycosides, chymotrypsin, cistanoside, and seven phenylethanoid glycosides; testosterone-like and estradiol-like substances; and trace elements such as potassium, sodium, calcium, zinc, manganese, and copper.

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Chinese medicine looks at Cistanche

Cistanches are well documented in ancient medical writings, such as: "This is a flat tonic. It is warm but not hot, tonic but not harsh, warm but not dry, slippery but not draining, and has a calm and gentle appearance, hence the name Cistanches. The Materia Medica Meng Chyuan states, "Avoid through iron." The Materia Medica Jing Shu said, "Diarrhea is prohibited, there is heat in the kidney, strong yang easy to rise and the essence is not solidly contraindicated." The "Yulan Medicinal Interpretation" indicates that Cistanches: "warms the waist and knees, strengthens the bones and flesh, nourishes the kidney, liver, essence, and blood, and moistens the intestines and stomach with knotted dryness."

Modern Chinese medicine believes that Cistanches nourish kidney yang, benefits essence, and blood, delay aging, and moistens the bowels and laxative. It is mostly used clinically to treat impotence, infertility, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, and constipation with dry intestines.

 

The seven benefits of Cistanche

1. Treating men's kidney deficiency and impotence.

Cistanches contain caryophyllene, rosmarinic acid, and testosterone-like and estradiol-like substances that can increase sexual desire. It is also rich in alkaloids, amino acids, trace elements, vitamins, etc. It can nourish kidney yang, benefit essence, and blood, inhibit the appearance of "yang deficiency" symptoms, and treat men's kidney deficiency and impotence.

2. Warm body and stomach.

Cistanches contain laxative ingredients, inorganic salts, and hydrophilic colloidal polysaccharides, which help relieve constipation, thus promoting the wetting and excretion of stool and the laxative effect.

 

3. Helps women to conceive

Cistanche contains many amino acids needed by the body, such as valine, which acts on the corpus luteum, mammary glands, and ovaries to help women conceive. Isoleucine acts on the thyroid and gonads to regulate endocrine secretion.

4. Lowering blood pressure and blood lipids, regulating the circulatory system

Protecting ischemic heart muscle; lowering blood lipids, anti-atherosclerosis, and anti-thrombosis; lowering peripheral vascular resistance, dilating peripheral blood vessels, lowering blood pressure; protecting the liver, anti-fatty liver.

Cistanches are effective in tonifying the kidney and are aphrodisiac, anti-aging, and lowering blood lipids and blood pressure.

 

5. Anti Aging

The phenylpinitol sugar contained in Cistanche is the most effective ingredient in slowing down aging. Cistanche has a significant delaying effect on the aging of the pituitary gland, gonads, thymus, and other parts of the body.

6. Enhance immune function

The polysaccharides contained in Cistanche can enhance the proliferation of human lymphocytes, thus strengthening human immunity. The biologically active ingredients contained in Cistanche, such as phenylpropanoid glycosides, can enhance the body's phagocyte activity and improve immunity.

7. Dispel wind and dampness, invigorate blood circulation, and remove blood stasis

Expelling wind and dispersing cold and relieving muscle spasms. It is also used clinically to treat back and leg pain and eliminate swollen and painful joints.

Easy-to-make Cistanche dietary supplement

1.Cistanche slices in water

Add 3-5 grams of Cistanches slices to 1 cup of boiling water and let it stand for 5 minutes before taking. It has the effect of tonifying kidney yang and benefiting essence and blood.

 

2.Cistanche Flower Tea

Brew about 5 grams of Cistanches, 3 grams each of rose and fetal chrysanthemum with boiling water. This tea can improve endocrine disorders, clear the liver and eyes, clear the heart, and nourish the kidneys.

3. Sheep Waist and Cistanche Congee

100g of round-grained rice, 1 sheep loin (remove the inner membrane, chop and wash), 9g of Cistanches (wash and slice gauze), 400g of water, and salt to taste.

Put a casserole on the fire, pour in water, add the packet of Cistanches, bring to a boil, then add the lamb loin slices, and then stew for about 30 minutes on low heat. According to taste, add a little salt and serve. It is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people who suffer from coldness in the limbs, cold pain in the waist and knees, frequent urination, nocturnal polyuria, and constipation due to a deficiency of kidney yang. It is used to treat lumbar soreness and weakness, frequent nocturnal urination, impotence, and premature ejaculation caused by deficiency of kidney yang. People with high cholesterol should not consume more. Not to be used by people with Yin deficiency and fire.

4.Cistanche soup

Add 3 bowls of water and boil it on high heat, then decoct it on low heat until it reaches 1 bowl of water, and take it at once. It is suitable for the constipation of old intestines.

Cistanche in water has the effect of tonifying kidney yang and benefiting essence and blood.