Epimedium has the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness and treating paralysis. Soaking in water can treat joint pain caused by wind-cold and rheumatism, but it has little effect on impotence and infertility caused by kidney-yang deficiency.

2. Processing Epimedium

The processing method of Epimedium is mainly frying with sheep oil. After processing, the dissolution of epimedium saponin can be improved, thus improving the curative effect. Soaking in water can treat symptoms such as deficiency of kidney yang, apathy of sexual desire, infertility due to palace cold, etc.

It can be seen that different processing methods of the same drug will also change the therapeutic effect of the drug. However, Epimedium has a certain therapeutic effect even if it is not processed. The processed Epimedium will have a strong flavor of sheep oil, but it also enhances the efficacy of warming and tonifying kidney yang.

Extended data

Epimedium is a perennial herb with a plant height of 20-60 cm. Rhizomes are short, woody and dark brown. Bicyclic and trifoliate compound leaves are basal and cauline, with 9 leaflets; 1-3 basal leaves are clustered with long stems, and 2 stem leaves are opposite; Leaflets papery or thick papery, ovate or broadly ovate, 3-7 cm long and 2.5-6 cm wide.

The basal lobes of terminal leaflets are round, nearly equal in size, and the basal lobes of lateral leaflets are slightly oblique, acute or round, often shining on them, with obvious reticulate veins, pale, smooth or sparsely pilose on the back, 7 veins at the base, and barbed teeth at the leaf margin; The stem has two pairs of opposite leaves, the panicle is10-35cm long, and there are 20-50 flowers, and the sequence axis and pedicel have glandular hairs.

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