I. Identification in appearance

1, Cistanchis surface brown or gray-brown, 3-15cm long, 2-8cm in diameter;

2, flat cylindrical, densely covered with scales, soft fleshy, weight, hard, slightly flexible, not easy to break the section of brownish-black, vascular bundles into a wavy arrangement of light brown dotted vascular bundles.

3, Cistanchis slices are irregularly shaped thick slices. The surface is brown or gray-brown. Some of them have visible fleshy scale leaves.

2. Identification on flavor

Cistanchis has a slight gas, sweet and slightly bitter taste.

Expanded Information:

Growing Characteristics of Cistanchis:

1. Cistanchis, as a kind of valuable traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, is mainly located in Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang, etc.

2. Sandy soil or semi-fluid sand desert area with sufficient sunshine and low rainfall is suitable for growing Cistanchis.

2. Cistanche is a parasitic plant, and its hosts are desert small trees such as pike and white pike, pearl firewood and so on.

3, preferring to be born on the soft sandy land with mild salinization, generally growing in sandy or semi-fixed sand dunes, dry old river beds, lake basin lowlands, etc., the habitat conditions are very poor.

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