Epimedium is a Chinese herbal medicine. Occasionally drinking can play a role in health care, while drinking for a long time may be counterproductive. In terms of sexual taste, Epimedium is hot, and it is easy to get angry if you eat too much, and some discomfort symptoms appear. Therefore, if there are no symptoms, don't take a lot of epimedium to avoid harm to your body.
Is the root or leaf of Epimedium better? The leaves of Epimedium can be used as medicine.
Epimedium is a Chinese herbal medicine for nourishing yang, expelling wind and removing dampness, and its application site is mainly leaves. Epimedium can treat impotence, premature ejaculation, soreness of waist and knees, rheumatoid arthritis, myocarditis, glomerulonephritis, etc. caused by deficiency of kidney yang and fire failure, and can be treated by soaking in wine in clinic. If its leaves are used, jujube, medlar, red ginseng, astragalus root and pilose antler can be added in a proper amount.
How long Epimedium soaks in water depends on the specific situation.
If it is for health, you can drink it occasionally. If it is for disease treatment, the doctor's guidance shall prevail. Drinking Epimedium can promote metabolism, regulate endocrine function and improve human resistance. It also has a good effect on cardiovascular diseases. But if it is not for disease treatment, it is best not to drink it often, but occasionally.
The advantage of soaking Epimedium in water is 1. Treating wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, epimedium is pungent and warm, and it is also helpful to dispel cold and warm meridians, and has certain therapeutic effect on joint pain or cold pain, unfavorable joint movement, numbness of limbs and limb contracture caused by wind-cold-dampness arthralgia. Can be used in combination with Radix Astragali, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Notopterygii Rhizoma and Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae.
2. Strengthening bones and muscles Epimedium can effectively strengthen bones and muscles and improve various rheumatic discomforts on the basis of dredging collaterals. Therefore, Epimedium is also often used to treat diseases such as poor joint movement, soreness of waist and knees, rheumatoid arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, etc.
3. Hypotensive Epimedium contains icariin, which has a certain hypotensive effect and can inhibit and block the pressor reflex caused by bilateral common carotid arteries, thus inhibiting the contraction of the instantaneous membrane caused by sympathetic preganglionic fibers. It is suitable for climacteric hypertension caused by kidney-yang deficiency, and can be used together with Yang-tonifying and Yin-nourishing drugs such as Rhizoma Curculiginis, Radix Morindae Officinalis, Cortex Phellodendri and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae.