What Are The Effects Of Cistanche?

Cistanche has been used as a medicine for a long time, and the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" lists it as top grade. It is a natural source of Chinese herbal medicine with a magical effect.

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What are the effects of Cistanche?

1. Improve immunity

Cistanche tubulosa total glycosides, cistanche polysaccharides, and Verdasco glycosides can significantly reduce the content of MDA in the liver and brain tissues, significantly increase the telomerase activity in the heart and brain tissues, enhance the function of peritoneal macrophages in spring phages, lymphocyte proliferation, and peripheral The blood IL-2 content is significantly increased, thereby enhancing the body's immune function.

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2. Invigorate kidney yang, nourish essence and blood

For men with insufficient kidney yang, deficiency of essence and blood, impotence, premature ejaculation, hematuria, leftovers, cold and heat pain of penis, aches, and weakness of the waist and knees, weakness of muscles and bones; Palace cold infertility.

3. Liver protection and hangover

The total glycosides of Cistanche can reduce cell apoptosis and necrosis, increase cell survival rate, and realize the protection of primary liver cells. At the same time, it can accelerate the liver's catabolism of alcohol, help the liver "detoxify" and "detoxify", and have a good alleviation effect on liver diseases caused by excessive drinking.

Cistanche can protect the liver

4. Relieve constipation

The galactitol and oligosaccharides in Cistanche can significantly promote bowel movements, increase intestinal osmotic pressure, inhibit water absorption in the large intestine, and have a laxative effect. Experiments have shown that Cistanche tubulosa, which is rich in echinacea, also has a good effect on improving colitis induced by sodium dextran sulfate. It is suitable for middle-aged and elderly patients with constipation with insufficient Yang Qi, physical deficiency constipation and postpartum constipation, postoperative constipation, habitual constipation, etc.

5. Strengthen the brain and protect the brain nerves

Used for neurasthenia, insomnia, forgetfulness, and senile dementia.

6. Whitening and beauty

The echinacoside and verbascoside in Cistanche have an antioxidant effect, clear the spots of excess melanin deposits in the body, regulate the endocrine, nourish the lungs, and make the skin white and supple.

7. Promote sleep

It is especially effective for insomnia caused by heart-kidney incompatibility.

8. Promote bone growth

The echinacoside in Cistanche has a significant enhancement effect on the bone density, bone mechanical properties, bone fiber structure, bone tissue morphology, and other indicators of the osteoporosis model rats established by the removal of the ovary. It can also significantly promote cell proliferation and increase ALP. The activity and the content of collagen, increase the mineralization level of osteocalcin and bone cells, the above shows that echinacoside has a good effect of promoting bone regeneration.

9. Anti-inflammatory effect

Cistanche cistanche extracts rich in glycosides have a good improvement effect on dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis in mice. Phenylethanol glycosides have a protective effect on inflammatory cells caused by nitric oxide. The above shows that Cistanche has anti-inflammatory effects. Inflammatory effect.

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10. Anti-tumor

Cistanche tubulosa petroleum ether extract has cell cycle inhibitory activity on mouse breast cancer tsFT210 cells, showing anti-tumor effects.

11. Radiation resistance

Cistanche glycosides can significantly promote the SOD activity in red blood cells and the recovery of nucleic acid content in spleen cells in mice injured by 60Co radiation, reduce the MDA content in liver cells, and significantly reduce peripheral blood leukocytes and bone marrow in mice after radiation injury Nucleated cells, reticulocytes, spleen colonies (CFUS), reduce the activity of selenium glutathione peroxidase (Se-gsh-Px) in bone marrow cells and spleen cells, increase the content of MDA, showing that the total glycosides of Cistanche have Anti-radiation effect.

12 Anti-allergy

Verbascum glycosides can well inhibit the release of histamine, TNF-α, interleukin-4 (IL-4), and β-hexosidase produced by the human basophil cell line (KU812), and may have anti-allergic effects.

13. Inhibit prostate hyperplasia

The apoptotic rate of rat prostate cells treated with verbascoside was significantly higher than that of the model group. The indicators showed that verbascoside significantly improved the ultrastructure and promoted cell apoptosis, thus inhibiting benign prostatic hyperplasia.

14. Diastolic blood vessels

The results of the study showed that echinacoside has endothelium-dependent vasodilation effects on mouse aortic rings, and phenethanol glycosides also have vasodilation effects.

Cistanche tubulosa inactivating enzyme slice Image source: Dichen team infringement must be investigated

15. Sedation

The crude extract of Cistanche can prolong the sleep time of rats and reduce spontaneous movement, including horizontal movement, walking time, and total movement distance, indicating that the extract of Cistanche has a sedative effect.

Cistanche is a non-toxic Chinese medicine. It is traditionally used as a food. It is a traditional Chinese medicine with good medicine and food.