Sources and effects of Cistanche

Cistanche is a parasitic plant that grows on the roots of desert trees, known as “desert ginseng”, and has great medicinal value. Historically, Cistanche has been used as a tribute to the imperial court by the Western countries and is one of the most frequently used tonic drugs in the prescriptions for kidney and aphrodisiacs. The number of Cistanches has been drastically reduced due to massive harvesting. According to the survey, there are only seven Cistanches per thousand parasitic plants. Since pikes are excellent fodder for camels and fuel for local people, overgrazing and mass digging of pikes also put Cistanches in a critical situation. Only a small amount of wild Cistanches are still distributed in the Batangilin Desert. Cistanches grow in the desert and are warm in nature and have the effect of tonifying the kidney and Yang. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, “This is a flat tonic. It is warm but not hot, tonic but not harsh, warm but not dry, slippery but not excretory, and has a calm and gentle appearance, hence the name Cistanches. It is a rare medicine that both nourishes the kidney yang and moistens the lower part of the body, and is specifically used to treat constipation in the elderly and deficient people. The story of Cistanches and Genghis Khan Legend has it that Cistanches was given to Genghis Khan by the gods of heaven. The famous “Battle of the Thirteen Wings” was an important battle when Temujin (Genghis Khan) unified the Mongolian grassland ministries. Temujin was reported, assembled 30,000 men, formed thirteen wings (battalion) to meet the enemy. The two sides of the battle, Temujin lost, was besieged in the long pokewood sand mountain, thirsty, exhausted. Zamogui public cruelty of the captives in seventy cauldrons boiled and killed, angered the gods. God of heaven sent the divine horse, divine horse a leap to the front of Genghis Khan, after the long cry to the sky, the essence of blood shot to the pike roots, and then with hooves Baotu like a divine horse genitalia plant root block, Genghis Khan and the generals ate the root block, divine power emerged, rushed down the sand mountain, one fell Zhamuhe tribe, for the unification of Mongolia laid the foundation. From then on, Genghis Khan started an era of conquest of Eurasia. Sources and effects of Cistanche Origin: Cistanche is a parasitic plant that grows on the roots of desert trees. Origin: Mainly produced in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia Alashan League, Gansu, Ningxia, also have distribution. Taste: sweet, salty, warm; belongs to the kidney and large intestine meridian Effects: tonifies the kidney and helps the Yang, moistens the bowels and opens the bowels. Cistanches are used for impotence and spermatorrhea due to deficiency of kidney yang and essence and blood. 2.Used for white turbidity, frequent urination and residual draining. 3.Used for menstrual diffusion, cold and infertility in the uterus. 4.For lumbar pain and weakness of the feet, tinnitus and eye blossoms. 5.Used for intestinal dryness and constipation. The Compendium of Materia Medica has a detailed list of the main treatments for Cistanches: five strains and seven injuries, tonic, in addition to cold and hot pain in the stem, nourishing the five viscera, strengthening the Yin, benefiting the essence, prolific son, women’s obstruction. It is used for a long time to lighten the body; to remove back pain from the bladder, to stop dysentery; to benefit the marrow, to please the color, to prolong the life, to strengthen the Yang, and to fight over times in the day, to treat women’s blood collapse; to treat men’s failure to produce Yang and women’s failure to produce Yin, to moisten the five organs, to grow muscles, to warm the waist and knees, to relieve semen in men, to urinate and bleed, and to bring down Yin pain in women; and to treat old people with sweating and constipation. In addition, according to modern pharmacological research, Cistanche can also be used for anti-aging, anti-fatigue, improving immunity, protecting the liver and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular effects. In 1993, a news broke out at the annual meeting of the International Medical Association in Geneva: China’s Alashan League Chaganhizhe was ranked among the world’s longevity towns. At once, Chaganxi fever became a hot spot of concern. A team of Chinese and foreign experts spared four months to investigate Chaganshirje. They found that there were only 139 people in the village of Chagan Highe (gacha) with four centenarians and a per capita life expectancy of 87.5 years; the incidence of common diseases such as hypertension, stomach disease, kidney disease and prostate enlargement was extremely low. The expert group found that the diet structure of local residents is related, two of which are that people here are accustomed to putting Cistanches in lamb stew and drinking home-brewed Cistanches wine.