Can drinking water boiled with Cistanche enhance sexual function?

Cistanche deserticola is a rare Chinese medicinal material with extremely difficult growing conditions. Because of its extremely high medicinal value and extremely rare quantity, it was presented as tribute to the imperial court in ancient times. It is a medicine comparable to ginseng. Its effect of replenishing kidney yang and benefiting essence and blood has greatly increased people's demand for this medicinal material. Correspondingly, many ways of consuming Cistanche have emerged, the simplest of which is to drink it directly by soaking it in water.

Introduction

Cistanche deserticola

deserticola Ma), also known as Xinjiang Yun, Cun Yun, Cistanche, and Chagan Gaoya (Mongolian), is an endangered species. Tall herbs, 40-160 cm tall, mostly underground. The flowering period is from May to June, and the fruiting period is from June to August. It is mainly produced in Xinjiang and Alxa League of Inner Mongolia, and is also distributed in Gansu and Ningxia.

Growth environment

It likes to grow on soft sandy land with slight salinization, and generally grows on sandy land or semi-fixed sand dunes, dry old riverbeds, lake basin lowlands, etc. The habitat conditions are very poor. The climate in the growing area is dry, with little rainfall, high evaporation, long sunshine hours and large temperature difference between day and night. The soil is mainly gray-brown desert soil and brown desert soil. The host plant Haloxylon ammodendron is a strong xerophyte. Cistanche deserticola mostly parasitizes on its lateral roots 30-100 cm deep. It grows in the desert at an altitude of 225-1150m, and parasitizes on the roots of plants such as Haloxylon ammodendron and Haloxylon persicum of the Chenopodiaceae family.

Medicinal value

Sweet, salty, warm in nature; tonifies kidney yang; benefits essence and blood; moisturizes the intestines. It is used to treat kidney yang deficiency; impotence due to insufficient essence and blood; spermatorrhea; leukorrhea; frequent urination with residual urine; back pain and weak legs; tinnitus and blurred vision; delayed menstruation; infertility due to uterine cold; constipation due to dry intestines

How to eat

Fresh and dried slices of Cistanche deserticola can be directly soaked in water, wine, or stewed into soup. Fresh and dried slices of Cistanche deserticola are made by directly slicing and air-drying fresh Cistanche deserticola, so they have better taste, color, and effect than traditional whole Cistanche deserticola.

Pick out impurities from Cistanche deserticola, soak it in clean water, change the water 1-2 times a day (if it is salty Cistanche, soak out all the salt), moisten it thoroughly, slice it (vertical cut), and dry it in the sun.

People who should not

Suitable food: It is suitable for people with constipation due to physical weakness, postpartum constipation, constipation after illness and constipation in the elderly; it is suitable for people with male nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, impotence, low sperm count and infertility; it is suitable for women with leucorrhea, infertility, cold limbs, irregular menstruation, low back and knee pain and other diseases; it is also suitable for patients with hypertension.

Taboos: People who often have loose stools should not eat it.