Cuscuta is one of the tonic herbs for Yang, and it is an important medicine for the three meridians of spleen, liver and kidney. It can be used in gynecological cases such as cold and infertility in the uterus, fetal movement, impotence and spermatorrhea in men, and kidney deficiency and lumbar pain. The legendary story of cuscuta seeds And there is another legend about cuscuta seeds. Once upon a time, there was a rich man in Jiangnan who was addicted to rabbits. One day, the foreman accidentally injured the crest of a rabbit, and fearing that the rich man would find out, he secretly hid the injured rabbit in the bean field. Afterwards, he unexpectedly found that the injured rabbit was not dead and had recovered from the injury. In order to find out what happened, he deliberately put another rabbit into the bean field and observed it carefully. He saw that the wounded rabbit often nibbled on a wild yellow vine wrapped around the bean straw. So, he used this yellow silk vine decoction for his father, who had a back injury, to drink, and his father’s back injury was cured. Through the trial of several patients, he concluded that the yellow silk vine can cure back injury disease. Soon, this long-time worker quit his job as a rabbit farmer and became a doctor specializing in lumbar injuries. Later, he simply called the medicine “rabbit silk”. Since it is an herbal medicine, later people put the word “cuscuta” on top of the word “rabbit” and called it “cuscuta”. Source: The dried and mature seeds of Cuscuta sinensis, family Cuscutaceae. Origin: It can be found all over the country. Taste: Pungent, sweet, and flat; belongs to the liver, spleen, and deep meridians. Effects: Tonifies the kidney essence, nourishes the liver and brightens the eyes, stops diarrhea and calms the fetus. Note: This product is a flat tonic, but it is a Yang tonic. It should not be taken by people with Yin deficiency and fire, dry stools and short red urine. It is not recommended for people with yin deficiency, fire, dry stools and short, red urine. The book “The Classic of the Materia Medica” says: “(Cuscuta) is an important medicine to nourish the three meridians of the spleen, kidney and liver. The main renewal of the injury, to supplement the deficiency, to benefit the energy, fat and healthy people, the three meridians and all real then the injury is renewed and the deficiency is complemented. …… where labor injuries are spleen, kidney and liver three organs of the main, liver and spleen temper king will stasis of blood on its own. Long serving bright eyes light body prolonged life, the eyes get blood and can see, liver open orifice in the eyes, pupil divine light belongs to the kidneys, liver and kidney real is the eyes from the bright, dirty real essence full of body from the light, prolonged life can be must carry on.” Therefore, Cuscuta can be used for: 1, kidney deficiency and lumbar pain, impotence and semen, frequent urination and cold infertility in the uterus. It is a flat tonic for yin and yang, with the function of tonifying kidney yang and benefiting kidney essence to fix sperm and shrink urine, and is served with fried Eucommiae equal parts, combined with yam as a pill. 2, liver and kidney deficiency, dark eyes. Often used with Shu Di and Che Qian Zi. 3, spleen and kidney Yang deficiency, loose stools and diarrhea. For spleen deficiency, loose stools, with ginseng, atractylodes, bone marrow for the pill. 4, kidney deficiency, fetal restlessness. Can nourish the liver and kidney to calm the fetus, often with the product and sequestra, mulberry, gum to take. 5, kidney deficiency and thirst. In addition, in the treatment of male impotence spermatorrhea, “New Compilation of Materia Medica” has a detailed medical case: …… in case of heart deficiency, day and night dream sperm ejaculation, with cuscuta seeds three taels, ten bowls of water, boiled juice three bowls, divided into three servings, morning, noon and night each one service will stop, and never again. What is the reason for this? The disease of dream loss, mostly from the thought of lust and evil, the thought has not yet, will lead to the self-release of its essence, after the release of the essence, and then add the thought, the heart fire dark scintillation, phase fire multiplied by the heart’s deficiency, the upper seizure of the king’s power, the fire wants to move and the water also moved, a long time to form a dream and essence loss. So, the jade gate is not closed, do not have to dream and also lost carry on. This is the heart, liver, kidney three meridians together sick, water and fire two deficiency caused. Cuscuta is the holy medicine for the heart, liver and kidney, in addition to not mixed with other flavors, the force is particularly specialized, so it can directly into the three meridians to receive the full effect. It can be used for other conditions such as restless dreams at night, dimness of the eyes, and weakness of the feet, up to one or two. With ginseng, rehmannia, atractylodes, and mountain Zhu and so on, the use of a lot of miraculous achievements.