Epimedium is a kind of medicinal plant. Traditional Chinese medicine often says that it has the effect of dispelling rheumatism and strengthening yang. When men are deficient in kidney qi, they can also take it, which has very rich medicinal value. Not only that, it is also very helpful for people with high blood pressure. How to eat the pure natural medicinal plant Epimedium? The following small series recommends several ways to eat, so you must learn it.

Efficacy and Function of Epimedium

(A) the efficacy of Epimedium

Epimedium is pungent and sweet, warm in nature, entering liver and kidney meridians, light in body and strong in qi, and can rise or fall. Has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening yang, expelling wind and removing dampness, and strengthening bones and muscles. Indications: impotence due to kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, infertility due to cold, frequent incontinence of urine, asthma and cough due to kidney deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, spasm of bones and muscles, arthralgia due to rheumatism, numbness and contracture, hemiplegia, callousness of limbs, climacteric hypertension, small stranguria, asthma and cough.

It can be used for treating impotence due to kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation, weakness of waist and knees, and cold limbs. It can be combined with Curculigo, Corni Fructus, Cistanche deserticola, etc. For waist and knee weakness, it can be combined with Eucommia ulmoides, Morinda officinalis and Ciji.

Used for cold-dampness arthralgia or limb contracture numbness. It can be combined with Radix Clematidis, Radix Morindae Officinalis, Cortex Cinnamomi, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, and Rhizoma Chuanxiong to treat arthralgia due to rheumatism, numbness of limbs or muscle contracture.

Expelling wind and removing dampness: it is used for rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis, and can be used equally with Radix Astragali, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Notopterygii Rhizoma and Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae.

Lowering blood pressure: It is used for hypertension with deficiency of both yin and yang, and can be used together with Yang-tonifying and Yin-nourishing drugs such as Rhizoma Curculiginis, Radix Morindae Officinalis, Cortex Phellodendri and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, such as Erxian Decoction.

(B) the role of Epimedium

Effect on endocrine

Epimedium can promote sexual function because of hypersecretion of semen, which stimulates sensory nerves and indirectly excites sexual desire after seminal vesicle is filled. Epimedium, the main component of Epimedium, can obviously promote the development of epididymis and seminal vesicle in young mice, and Epimedium has androgenic effect.

Effect on immune system function

The number of T cells, lymphocyte transformation rate, antibody, antigen and phagocytosis of reticuloendothelial system in patients with kidney deficiency are low, which can be improved after treatment with kidney tonic drugs such as Epimedium.

Effects on cardiovascular system

Herba Epimedii decoction and extract have certain protective effect on myocardial ischemia induced by pituitrin in rats. Hypotensive effect: Herba Epimedii decoction and ethanol extract of water decoction were given intravenously to rabbits (2.5ml/kg), cats (2ml/kg) and rats (4ml/kg), all of which showed hypotensive effect. Among them, the effect on rabbits is the most obvious.

Effect on blood system

Compared with the effects of Herba Epimedii decoction, polysaccharide and total flavonoids on platelet aggregation, the hematocrit of healthy people decreased obviously, the electrophoresis time of red blood cells was shortened, and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate was accelerated, thus the specific viscosity of whole blood decreased obviously.

Effect on metabolism

Epimedium can promote DNA synthesis.

Anti-osteoporosis effect

Experiments show that Epimedium can promote the DNA synthesis of bone marrow cells, which shows that Epimedium has a good role in preventing and treating osteoporosis.