Cistanche mongolica

Inner Mongolia Cistanche deserticola, also known as Dayun, is mainly produced in Alashan League in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it goblin or golden bamboo shoot, which is an extremely precious Chinese herbal medicine. It is known as "desert ginseng" and has been regarded as a treasure of Shanggong court by western countries in history. Cistanche has been used as medicine for a long time. It is sweet and warm, salty and moist, and has the functions of tonifying yang without dryness, warming kidney yang and tonifying kidney deficiency; The characteristics of nourishing yin but not greasy, moistening intestine and dredging abdomen to treat constipation. Just because it is complementary and gentle, it is called Cistanche (calm). In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, not only recorded in detail the expositions of medical scientists in past dynasties about Boschniakia, but also further analyzed and studied the nature and function of Boschniakia. Among them, it says: "Cooking with mutton can cure' five injuries and seven injuries', abdominal cold and heat diseases, strengthen yin and benefit the essence", and' it can moisten, slip and not diarrhea with its warmth, often make up for it, and invigorate the yang to help others'; The classic says that it "nourishes five internal organs, strengthens yin and benefits essence"; "Daming" said that it ruled that "men are not prosperous, and women are not productive." In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has applied modern scientific methods to analyze Cistanche deserticola. The results show that Cistanche deserticola contains trace alkaloids and crystalline neutral substances, which has the effect of treating cold pain in the waist and knees, female infertility, neurasthenia and hearing loss, and also has the effect of lowering blood pressure, and can be used as a hemostatic for cystitis, bladder bleeding and renal bleeding.
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