Curculigo orchioides is a commonly used medicine for deficiency of kidney-yang in men and women. However, people in the Tang Dynasty thought it was a very magical fairy medicine and kept it secret. Let me introduce the efficacy and function of curculigo for you, hoping to help you.

Efficacy and function of Rhizoma Curculiginis

Enhance immune function.

Curculigo curculiginis can enhance the phagocytosis of peritoneal macrophages in mice, but it has no effect on the T cell system of normal mice, and it can obviously increase the T cells of mice immunosuppressed by cyclophosphamide. Erxian capsule composed of Rhizoma Curculiginis and Herba Epimedii can increase the content of IgG and the total complement in serum, suggesting that the drug has a certain enhancement effect on humoral immunity and cellular immunity.

Promote androgen secretion.

It can obviously increase the weight of seminal vesicle gland in rats, suggesting that it has androgen-like effect.

Anti-inflammatory

It has obvious inhibitory effect on mouse auricle swelling inflammation caused by croton oil.

Warming kidney and strengthening yang.

It is used for deficiency of kidney-yang, impotence, cold, nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation. It is often used with Radix Rehmanniae, Herba Epimedii, Fructus Lycii and Corni.

Warming spleen and stopping diarrhea.

It can be used to tonify spleen and soil, dispel cold and stop diarrhea, and stimulate appetite. It can be drunk with wine, or used with Lishen, Zingiber officinale and Atractylodes macrocephala.

Eliminate cold and dampness, strengthen bones and muscles.

For lumbago due to cold-dampness due to kidney-yang deficiency and rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis of cold-dampness type, it can be used with Radix Astragali, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Morindae Officinalis, Eucommiae Cortex, Radix Aconiti and Herba Asari.

Anti-hypoxia and anti-high temperature effects. It has sedative and anticonvulsant effects.

Erxian capsule can prolong the survival time of animals and reduce lipofuscin in heart, brain and liver. It can also inhibit thrombosis.

Treat arthritis.

Rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and osteoarthritis in the elderly have a long course, which gradually changes from heat syndrome to cold syndrome and from excess syndrome to deficiency syndrome. Cold syndrome, cold and heat mixed syndrome, yang deficiency and kidney deficiency, commonly used methods of warming yang and dispelling cold, can choose Curculigo and Epimedium. The two drugs can not only improve the hormone level in the body, but also diminish inflammation and resist rheumatism.

Regulate endocrine.

The endocrine function of menopausal women is disordered, and the proportion of female and male hormones in the body is out of balance. Erxian Decoction may have the function of regulating endocrine function.

Antitumor effect.

The acetone extract of Rhizoma Curculiginis has inhibitory effect on Ehrlich ascites carcinoma solid tumor.

Antibacterial effect.

100% decoction has inhibitory effect on Shigella flexneri, Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei by plate trenching.

Nourish.

Since 1980s, scholars from China, India and Japan have systematically studied the chemical constituents of Curculigo orchioides. The main compounds isolated and identified are cyclic jackfruit triterpenoid saponins, chlorophenols, phenolic glycosides, lignans glycosides, flavonoids, alkaloids and long-chain aliphatic compounds.

Edible method of Rhizoma Curculiginis

Xianmaocha

Ingredients: Rhizoma Curculiginis 5g, black tea 3g.

Practice: brew with 200ml boiling water and drink until it is light.

Function: Warming kidney yang and strengthening bones and muscles.

Usage: Male impotence with cold essence; Urinary incontinence; Cold pain in the heart; Cold pain in waist and legs; The woman is cold and has low sexual desire.

Source: Traditional herbal tea prescription.

Cured meat with curculigo

Materials:

500g pork (lean), 0/5g curculigo/kloc, 0/5g Cherokee rose/kloc.

Practice:

(1) Wash pork and cut into pieces. Cleaning Rhizoma Curculiginis and Fructus Rosae Laevigatae, mashing, and wrapping with gauze.

(2) Curculigo, Rosa laevigata and pork are added with appropriate amount of water, and stewed on slow fire until the meat is cooked and rotten.

Health tips:

(1) tonify kidney-yang, strengthen bones and muscles, and dispel cold and dampness. Suitable for impotence, tinnitus and other symptoms.

(2) Those with yin deficiency and excessive fire should avoid taking it. This product should not be stewed with beef to avoid reducing the effect. The dosage should not be too large.

(3) If you want to enhance its efficacy, you can add a spoonful of Cistanche deserticola extract when drinking the soup.

Curculigo bouillon

Materials:

500 grams of sparrows, 80 grams of Gordon Euryale seeds, 20 grams of curculigo, and 40 grams of dried dates.

Practice:

(1) The sparrow eviscerated and pawed.

(2) Wash the curculigo, Euryale ferox and red dates.

(3) All the materials are put into a water pot and boiled fiercely.

(4) simmer for 2 hours, and the soup is ready for drinking.

Stewed beef with curculigo

Materials:

Beef (fat and thin)1000g, Rhizoma Curculiginis100g, scallion 20g, ginger 5g, pepper 3g, salt 5g, cooking wine 8g and monosodium glutamate 5g.

Practice:

(1) Dicing and boiling: Wash the beef, cut it into small pieces with a knife, put it in a boiling pot to rinse off the blood stains, take it out and rinse it with clear water, and put it in a casserole.

(2) Processing of raw materials: cleaning Rhizoma Curculiginis, and cutting into sections and pieces respectively.

(3) Stewing: Add Curculigo, onion, ginger slices and pepper into a casserole filled with beef, mix well, add refined salt, cooking wine and appropriate amount of water, put the casserole on fire, first boil it with high fire, cover it, then simmer it slowly with low fire until the beef is cooked and rotten, and then remove Curculigo, onion, ginger and pepper and add monosodium glutamate to adjust the taste.