Efficacy and function of Cuscuta chinensis
Semen Cuscutae can reduce blood lipid and blood sugar.
After the mice were fed with Cuscuta chinensis polysaccharide, the blood sugar level decreased obviously, the weight increased and the content of liver glycogen increased, which indicated that it had anti-diabetic effect. In addition, Cuscuta polysaccharide can also reduce blood sugar by increasing the level of superoxide dismutase in vivo and inhibiting amylase activity in vitro. Semen Cuscutae flavonoids significantly decreased the blood triglyceride level of bilateral castrated female rats and increased the number of estrogen receptors in thoracic aortic smooth muscle cells. The aqueous extract of Cuscuta chinensis can promote the release of free fatty acids and accelerate the catabolism of adipose tissue in vitro, showing a dose-effect relationship.
Cuscuta chinensis has anti-aging and antioxidant effects.
Animal studies have shown that the polysaccharides in Cuscuta chinensis also have the functions of anti-aging and protecting brain tissue. For example, Cuscuta polysaccharide can reduce the content of malondialdehyde (NDA) in serum, liver and kidney, increase the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX), and reduce lipofuscin (LF) in brain tissue, thus achieving the effects of scavenging oxygen free radicals, resisting lipid peroxidation and resisting aging. Cuscuta chinensis polysaccharide can reduce lipid peroxidation in cerebral cortex of mice under stress.
MDA content and anti-peroxidase SOD activity were increased, and brain tissue was protected by anti-lipid peroxidation.
Cuscuta chinensis can improve immunity
Animal experiments show that proper amount of Semen Cuscutae can increase the wet weight of thymus and spleen immune organs, enhance the phagocytic function of peritoneal macrophages, promote the proliferation of spleen lymphocytes and induce the production of interleukin, thus effectively enhancing the immunity of the body.
Cuscuta chinensis has the function of protecting liver.
When Semen Cuscutae decoction was used in chronic liver injury model mice, it was found that serum glutamate aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase decreased significantly, while SOD increased. At the same time, the damage of liver tissue in mice was obviously improved, which reflected the protective effect of liver. It shows that a certain dose of dodder polysaccharide can improve the activity and cell proliferation of rat liver stem cells in vitro, thus protecting liver stem cells.
Cuscuta chinensis has a certain eyesight improving effect.
Cuscuta chinensis can reduce the degree of lens opacity, delay and treat galactose cataract, and has no adverse effect on growth and development. Semen Cuscutae decoction can basically restore the activities of aldose reductase, polyol dehydrogenase, hexokinase and catalase in cataract lens. In addition, Cuscuta chinensis can also correct the abnormal changes of redox substances and sugar content in lens, and prevent glutathione from decreasing and restore its content. Cuscuta chinensis extract has obvious inhibitory effect on lens aldose reductase and lipid peroxidation, and it decreases with the decrease of extract concentration. The inhibition type of aldose reductase activity is non-competitive.
Cuscuta can help people.
Can you say Cuscuta chinensis in The Theory of Leigong Roasting? Enhance people's health and help others' hearts. ? There is some truth in this statement. Cuscuta chinensis is warm and sweet, and entering the kidney meridian can tonify kidney essence. When the kidney essence is sufficient, it is painstakingly nourished and the bone marrow is full, which has the functions of benefiting qi, nourishing the heart and strengthening the brain. When entering the liver meridian, the liver governs the drainage, and the drainage function is normal, the qi flow is smooth, the qi and blood are harmonious, the meridians are smooth, and the qi and blood run smoothly; Entering the spleen meridian, the spleen governs transportation and transformation, which is the source of qi and blood generation, and a healthy temper is enough to ensure qi and blood filling.
Edible method of dodder seed
Cuscuta tea
Select Cuscuta chinensis 10g. Wash and mash, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, brew with boiling water, and don't drink tea. It can tonify kidney and essence, nourish liver and improve eyesight. Long-term use can prolong life and cure male and female infertility caused by kidney deficiency.
Cuscuta dog broth
Prepare Semen Cuscutae 15g, dog meat 300g, salt, monosodium glutamate, ginger and onion. Wash dog meat, soak the whole piece in boiling water, remove blood foam and cut into pieces. Put the dog meat in the pot, stir-fry with ginger, add cooking wine, and then pour the dog meat and ginger into the casserole. Then put the dodder in a cloth bag and tie it tightly, put it in a casserole with salt and onion, add a proper amount of clear soup, boil it over high fire, and then change it to low fire until the meat is rotten. Regular consumption can warm kidney, strengthen yang, replenish essence and tonify deficiency.
Dodder wine with Daphne genkwa
Prepare an appropriate amount of Daphne genkwa and Semen Cuscutae, one liter of wine, soak the two drugs in the wine and drink them three days later. Can be used for treating edema and hydrops in chest and abdomen.
Cuscuta medicate liquor
Soak a proper amount of Semen Cuscutae in 500ml or 1000ml wine, which can be white wine or yellow wine. You can drink it directly after soaking for seven days, which can play a very stable role in tonifying kidney and nourishing liver.
Cuscuta porridge
Prepare 30 ~ 60g of Cuscuta chinensis, 0/00g of japonica rice/kloc-0, and appropriate amount of sugar. First, wash and mash Semen Cuscutae, or mash with fresh Semen Cuscutae, add water to decoct, take juice, remove residue, add rice to cook porridge, and add sugar to cook slightly. Take this porridge in the morning and evening, 7 ~ 10 days as a course of treatment, and then once every 3 ~ 5 days. It can tonify kidney and essence, nourish liver and improve eyesight. Suitable for impotence, premature ejaculation, frequent urination, dizziness, tinnitus and deafness, excessive leucorrhea, habitual abortion, etc.
Who shouldn't eat dodder?
Herbal classics:? Kidney fire is strong, yang is strong but not flaccid, and dry stool is also taboo. . Deserved materia medica: Pregnant women, bloody collapse, yang deficiency, constipation, kidney fire, and yin deficiency fire are not allowed. ?