| English
Name |
| Desertliving
Cistanche |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Origin |
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Desertliving
Cistanche is the dried fleshy stem with scales of Cistanche
deserticola Y. C. Ma (Fam. Orobanchaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is sweet and salty in taste and warm in nature, and is distributed
to the Kidney and Large Intestine Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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Acteoside
(C29H36O15) |
| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated and dry place, protected from moth. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Flattened-cylindrical,
slightly curved, 3-15cm long, 2-8cm in diameter. Externally
brown or grayish brown, densely covered with imbricated fleshy
scales, the apex of scales usually broken. Texture heavy,
hard and slightly pliable, uneasily broken, fracture brown,
with brownish dotted vascular bundles, arranged in sinuous
ring. Odour, slight; taste, sweet and slightly bitter.
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ACTION |
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To reinforce
the kidney, replenish vital essence and blood, and induce laxation. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Impotence,
infertility; general weakness with aching of the loins and
knees; constipation. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.Tonifying
kidney-Yang
In treating
impotence due to deficiency of the kidney, coldness and pain
of the low back and knee, female infertility, etc., the drug
is often used in combination with Fructus Psoraleae, Semen
Cuscutae, Fructus Cnidii, Radix Morindae Officinalis, Semen
Astragali Complanati, Fructus Corni, etc.
2.Moistening
the intestine to relax the bowel
In treating
constipation in the elderly or patients with weak physiques,
the drug is often used in combination with Fructus Cannabis,
Lignum Aquilariae Rehmanniae and Radix Angelicae Sinensis.
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