What Does Cistanche Deserticola Look Like?
Aug 03, 2023
Cistanche deserticola mainly parasitizes the roots of Lysimachia and Tamarix. The medicinal part of Cistanche deserticola is the fleshy stem with scales in the underground. The fleshy stem is dug when the seedlings are just unearthed in spring or before the frozen soil in autumn and then dried as a medicinal material.
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The fleshy stem of Cistanche deserticola is long, flat, cylindrical, 3-15cm long, 2-8cm in diameter, thick at the bottom, and thin at the top.
The surface of Cistanche deserticola is brown or grayish brown, densely covered with fleshy scales arranged in tile shape, and the scales are rhombic or triangular; Weight, hard to break; The cross section is brownish brown, with a light brown dotted Vascular bundle arranged in wavy ring patterns. The wood accounts for about 4/5, sometimes hollow.
Mild breath, sweet taste, slightly bitter. It is best to have thick and dense scaly leaves with a soft texture.
The mature Cistanche deserticola grows out of the ground and is 80-100 cm high. The Underground stem is yellow and fleshy, and the fleshy scales are dense: terminal panicles; Capsule, ovoid; The seeds are brown, mostly, extremely small, elliptically ovate, with reticulate patterns and luster; Embryo ripening, flowering from May to June, and harvesting from June to July.
Mature Cistanche deserticola plants cannot be used as medicinal materials. Cistanche deserticola used as a traditional Chinese medicine must be dug after excavation and before flowering. At this time, Cistanche deserticola has the best efficacy and effect.
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Cistanche deserticola, a traditional Chinese medicine, is sweet, salty, and warm; It has the effects and effects of tonifying kidney yang, benefiting essence and blood, moistening intestines, and relieving fatigue, and has been used in China for over 2000 years.
Shennong Ben Cao Jing: sweet and warm. Treating five pains and seven injuries, tonifying the middle, removing cold and heat diseases in the stems, nourishing the five internal organs, strengthening yin, benefiting essence and qi, having multiple children, treating women's abdominal pain, and taking it for a long time can lighten the body.
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The Compendium of Materia Medica: This substance supplements but is not severe, so it has the name of calmness.
Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2015 edition: "Nature, Taste, and Meridian" Sweet, salty, and warm. Return to the kidney and large intestine meridians.
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【 Function and Indications 】 Nourishing kidney yang and benefiting essence and blood. Used for kidney yang deficiency, menstrual blood deficiency, impotence and infertility, weak waist and knees, weak muscles and bones, and intestinal dryness and constipation.
【 Usage and Dosage 】 6-10g.
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Modern pharmacology shows that Cistanche deserticola, in addition to being a traditional Chinese medicine for tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang, has many functions such as anti-aging, improving memory, preventing Alzheimer's disease, and improving immunity.
