The Legend And Development History Of Cistanche

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What we call Cistanche, locally known as "Dayun", grows on the edge of deserts, such as China's Gansu, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, and parasitizes on the roots of desert plants Tamarisk and Haloxylon. Cistanche is also nicknamed the "Longevity Grass", Cistanche has unique functions such as improving kidney function, resisting Alzheimer's disease, protecting the liver, laxative, adjuvant tumor treatment, and anti-radiation, it is known as "desert ginseng".

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The legend of Cistanche

Legend has it that Cistanche absorbs the essence of the dragon, eats it to live forever: It is said that if there is a dragon in the water and dominates one side, the dynamics will often stir upwind and waves, the flood is raging, the people are miserable. Later, Dayu ruled the water here and took the initiative to subdue the dragon and suppress it underground in the northwest of Zhangye, China. To prevent the dragon from causing harm to the world in the future, Dayu nailed many divine needles on its body. Later evolved, and the dragon turned into a dune, the sacred needles turned into several Haloxylon trees, with Cistanche growing under them, and they continued to absorb the essence of the dragon. Legend has it that if often eat Cistanche and can live forever.

The development history of Cistanche

1. More than 1000 BC, humans began to eat Cistanche;

2. More than 100 BC, it began to be a tribute to successive dynasties;

3. For more than 2000 years, Cistanche has been highly regarded by famous doctors such as Li Shizhen;

4. In the Tang Dynasty, Cistanche was listed as one of the nine great immortals in China;

5. In 1986, Cistanche was listed as a second-class endangered species in China;

6. In 2010, a key breakthrough was made in the research of Cistanche;

7. In 2015, artificial large-scale inoculation of Cistanche successfully;

8. In 2018, China approved Cistanche as a traditional Chinese medicinal material with the same food and medicine.

Chengdu WeCistanche has built complete artificial planting bases in Changma, Wuwei, Baiyin, Minqin, Gansu, Turpan, Qiemo, Kashgar, Hotan, Xinjiang, and the complete Cistanche industrial chain has been integrated and constructed so far, its a comprehensive modern high-tech development enterprise of Cistanche. Our local friends said that they often saw Dayun (Cistanche) in the desert when they were raising sheep when they were young and when they went to work in the farmland. When the spring returns to the earth in March, the branches and leaves of Cistanche sprout straight out of the ground and then sprout into small purple or yellow curly flowers, which can grow more than one meter high. However, as the tonic effect of Cistanche has been widely recognized, people have begun to dig it indiscriminately so that now wild Cistanche has become an endangered species. Fortunately, now that the artificial cultivation technology of Cistanche is mature, the precious Chinese medicinal materials of Cistanche can continue to benefit human health.