Cuscuta, the dried mature seeds of Cuscuta sinensis or Cuscuta chinensis, family Cyclophyllaceae, globose or ovate, slightly compressed, hard texture, remove the seed coat, visible convoluted embryo. Its properties are pungent, sweet and flat, and it belongs to the liver, kidney and spleen meridians, with the effect of tonifying the liver and kidneys, fixing essence and shrinking urine.

1. Tonifying the liver and kidney

Cuscuta is sweet, warm, and belongs to the kidney, liver, spleen meridian, with the effect of tonifying the liver and kidney, commonly used in liver and kidney insufficiency, lumbar and knee soreness and weakness, fetal leakage in renal deficiency, and diarrhea in spleen and kidney deficiency, and other symptoms.

2. Fixing sperm and shrinking urine

Cuscuta chinensis is sweet, pungent and slightly warm, which can nourish the deficiency, warm can help the yang, into the kidney meridian, replenish the kidney yang and kidney qi as well as fixing sperm and strengthening the yang, it can improve the sexual ability and improve the endocrine secretion of the reproduction, it has the characteristics of warm and not dry, and replenishment and not stagnation, it can be used for impotence and spermatorrhea, urinary leaching, urination, and urinary frequency.