First, the efficacy of Epimedium
Epimedium is pungent, sweet, warm in nature, and belongs to liver and kidney meridians. It is light and vigorous, 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.
1. It is used for 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.
2. It is used for cold-dampness arthralgia or numbness of limbs. 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.
3. expelling wind and removing dampness: it can be used for rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis, and can be used equally with Radix Astragali, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Notopterygii Rhizoma and Radix Gentianae Macrophyllae.
4. Lowering blood pressure: It can be 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.
ii. Effects of Epimedium
1. Effects of Epimedium on Endocrine Function
Epimedium can promote sexual function due to 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.
2. Effect on immune system function
The number of T cells, lymph node turnover rate, antibodies, antigens and phagocytic function of reticuloendothelial system in patients with kidney deficiency are low, which can be improved after treatment with kidney tonics such as epimedium
3. Effect on cardiovascular system
The decoction and extract of epimedium have certain protective effects on myocardial ischemia in rats caused by pituitrin. 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.
4. Effects on blood system
Compared with the effects of Herba Epimedii decoction, polysaccharide and total flavonoids on platelet aggregation, the hematocrit of healthy people was obviously reduced, the electrophoresis time of red blood cells was shortened, and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate was accelerated, thus the specific viscosity of whole blood was obviously reduced.
5. Effects on metabolism
Epimedium can promote DNA synthesis.
6. Anti-osteoporosis effect
Experiments show that Epimedium can promote the synthesis of DNA in bone marrow cells, indicating that Epimedium has a good role in preventing and treating osteoporosis.
Precautions:
Epimedium is dry and strong, which can hurt yin and help fire. Some people will have dizziness, vomiting, dry mouth, thirst and nosebleeds after taking it.
it should not be used for patients with yin deficiency, excessive fire, vexation of five senses, nocturnal emission, and hypersexuality.
people who are hyperactive due to yin deficiency and prone to fire should avoid taking it. The fire is easy to move, and the yang is easy to move. A husband's long service makes him childless. Because the yin essence is not full and the true yang is not solid, taking pungent and warm drugs will encourage the seedlings, which is counterproductive. However, it has a powerful function of benefiting essence and tonifying kidney and yang. If normal people take it for a long time, the yang will flourish and desire more, but too much sex will hurt the yin too much, and the essence will dissipate, so there is no other reason.