Cistanchis have the effects of tonifying kidney yang, benefiting essence and blood, laxative and laxative, and their effects do not differ according to gender.
Cistanchis is a kind of Chinese medicine, which is the fleshy stem with scaly leaves of Cistanchis plant in the family of Cistanchiaceae. It has the effect of tonifying kidney yang, benefiting essence and blood, moistening the intestines and laxatives, and is mainly used for kidney yang deficiency, essence and blood deficiency, impotence and infertility, lumbar and knee soreness, sinew and bone weakness, and intestinal dryness and constipation.
Its adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear at present. It should be noted that the use of yin deficiency fire (refers to yin and essence deficiency resulting in deficiency fire blazing) contraindicated, loose stools (feces thin not shaped) diarrhea contraindicated, hot constipation (due to the constipation caused by heat and evil concentration) contraindicated.
Clinically, Cuscuta chinensis, Cortex Eucommiae and Cortex Eucommiae are used for five kinds of labor (five kinds of disease-causing factors of over-exertion, such as prolonged vision, prolonged lying down, prolonged sitting, prolonged standing and prolonged walking) and seven kinds of injuries (food injuries, sadness injuries, drinking injuries, room injuries, hunger injuries, labor injuries, and injuries of meridians, Ying and Wei qi injuries), impotence, and urinary leakage (dripping and not being able to get rid of the urine).
Used together with Cortex Eucommiae and Zihechuan for kidney deficiency and bone impotence (also known as renal atrophy, commonly associated with lumbar and back weakness, lower limb weakness, dry teeth, etc.); used together with Sedum and Asarum, for fluid depletion leading to stool formation.
If you need to use the drug, you should be guided by a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner to use the drug under the guidance of the evidence, and should not purchase the drug on your own, so as to avoid delaying the condition of the drug is not the right evidence.