What are the effects and effects of traditional Chinese medicine Suoyang? Is it Cistanche deserticola? How do you eat or choose?

Suoyang is a perennial fleshy parasitic herb of Suoyang family, which is distributed in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and other places. It is born in desert steppe, steppe desert and desert zone. It is generally dug in spring and its dry fleshy stem can be used as medicine. So, what are the effects and functions of Suoyang? Is it Cistanche deserticola? How do you eat or choose?

What are the effects and functions of Suoyang?

1. Tonifying kidney yang: locking positive temperature, warming yang and tonifying kidney, suitable for tonifying kidney yang deficiency, used in combination with dodder and Cistanche deserticola, can treat impotence premature ejaculation and female infertility caused by kidney yang deficiency.

2. Tonifying essence and blood: Suoyang combined with tortoise shell, cooked land and achyranthes bidentata can tonify kidney and fill essence, strengthen muscles and bones, and treat lumbar and knee impotence and weakness caused by kidney deficiency and essence deficiency.

3. Moistening intestines and relieving stool: Suoyang has the effect of scavenging free radicals, resisting hypoxia, anti-platelet aggregation, promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis and treating intestinal dryness and constipation.

4. Suoyang can also regulate leucorrhea, treat women's uterine ptosis, treat gastric ulcers, and play a certain role in paralysis and improving sexual weakness.

What are the taboos of taking Suoyang?

Suoyang is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which belongs to the category of deficiency medicine. If there is no specific symptoms of yang deficiency or the diagnosis of a regular Chinese medicine practitioner, try not to take it by yourself. Yang is easy to lift without persistence, spleen deficiency diarrhea, excess heat and constipation. Do not take it for a long time, otherwise it will damage the kidney yin.

Third, is Suoyang Cistanche deserticola?

Suoyang is not Cistanche deserticola.

Cistanche deserticola is the succulent stem of Cistanche deserticola or Cistanche deserticola and Cistanche deserticola, which is mainly parasitic on Haloxylon ammodendron. The stem of Suoyang is reddish brown and brown, while the stem of Cistanche deserticola is yellow. The tonifying effect of Suoyang is stronger, the ability of improving essence is larger, it is easy to get angry when eating more, and it can not be taken for a long time, while Cistanche deserticola is more nourishing and mild, does not hurt yin, eating more will not lead to fever, can be used for a long time.

Fourth, how to eat Suoyang?

Fresh Suoyang can be eaten raw or boiled porridge, raw is directly peeled and sliced, tasted sweet and astringent, and boiled porridge can be made into Suoyang mutton porridge, Suoyang tonifying kidney porridge and so on. Dried Suoyang can be fried in water, soup, bubble water and wine. Water frying is usually taken with other traditional Chinese medicine, or after frying alone, remove the dregs and add brown sugar to mix well. The soup can be made into Suoyang mutton soup, Suoyang stewed chicken soup, Suoyang Qiangshen soup, etc., and can also be slightly steamed in a steamer to eat.

Fifth, how to choose Suoyang?

The real dry Suoyang is flat cylindrical or slightly thin at one end, the surface color is reddish brown to dark brown, there are thick longitudinal grooves or irregular depressions on the surface, sometimes triangular scales can be seen, the quality is hard and not easy to break, and the cross section is slightly granular; it smells fragrant and tastes bitter and astringent; it is better to have a hypertrophy, red, solid, powdery cross-section and no veins.