What is desert living cistanche
Mar 10, 2022
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Cistanche is a perennial parasitic plant, also known as ‘Dayun’. The whole plant has no chlorophyll, yellow-brown, small leaves, and is scaly. Fresh cistanche contains rich active ingredients such as echinacoside and acteoside, and it also contains rich fat content. Because it is grown in the desert, it is a rare specialty. There are different types of Cistanche. Desert Living Cistanche is a well-known species of Cistanche.
Cistanche
Desert Living Cistanche is a very peculiar and rare wild herb that only grows in the Badain Jaran Desert and the hinterland of the Tengger Desert in Alashan Region, Inner Mongolia, China. It has grown at minus 20 to minus 50 degrees for many years and is known as the "sea of death". The desert hinterland is arid and rainless, and it can survive on the ground for decades. It has the reputation of being the king of "super xerophytes". Desert Living Cistanche is rich in alkaloids, crystalline neutral substances, amino acids, trace elements, vitamins, etc. The Alexa cistanche glycosides contained in Desert Living Cistanche are not found in other plants. It is the most effective ingredient to delay senescence.
Desert Living Cistanche is a perennial parasitic herb, parasitizing on the roots of Haloxylon ammodendron to absorb nutrients. Haloxylon has a strong vitality. Its canopy has endured the baking of the scorching sun and the torn of the wind all year round, but it persistently absorbs the essence of the earth and uses its hard-won essence to nourish the Desert Living Cistanche. Legend has it that the first desert Cistanche desert in the natural world followed by the desert because the Desert Living Cistanche has absorbed the essence of the earth and the aura of all things, it turned the earth into a desert. Therefore, the Desert Living Cistanche is also called "Jinshun".
Desert Living Cistanche
Desert Living Cistanche is generally 80-100 cm high. The stems are thick, unbranched, cylindrical and slightly curved. The surface is covered by the fleshy scale leaves arranged in a tile-like shape. The weight is hard, and it is slightly tough and not easy to break. This is also one of the important characteristics of Desert Living Cistanche which is different from ordinary cistanche in other regions. Every spring and autumn are the mature seasons of Desert Living Cistanche. The freshly harvested Desert Living Cistanche is of high quality, can be cleaned and eaten directly, and tastes delicious.
Desert Living Cistanche
Desert Living Cistanche has high medicinal value. Desert Living Cistanche contains a large number of rare nutrients such as amino acids, cystine, tryptophan, total yellow and so on. It is also one of the most frequently used tonic drugs in tonic prescriptions. Desert Living Cistanche, together with ginseng and deer antler, is listed as China's three major tonics. Generally speaking, seven kilograms of fresh Cistanche can be made into one kilogram of dried Cistanche. Only two-thirds of the whole fresh Cistanche with high nutritional value can be made into fresh and dried spices. Strictly check the raw materials, and do not choose three: one does not choose flowers that have bloomed, two does not choose short heads, and three does not choose raw materials outside of Inner Mongolia. The fresh and dried Cistanche slices produced after careful selection have more than five times the efficacy of traditional Cistanche.
Medicinal herb: Desert Living Cistanche
