Semen Cuscutae is a good medicine for tonifying kidney, liver and spleen. It is mainly used in clinic for kidney-yin and yang-deficiency syndrome of kidney deficiency and lumbago, impotence and nocturnal emission, frequent micturition, infertility due to cold uterus and dark eyes in loose stool.

In daily life, there are some edible methods, such as Cuscuta porridge, Cuscuta tea, Cuscuta dog broth, Daphne genkwa Cuscuta wine, Cuscuta medicated wine and so on.

Cuscuta chinensis is sweet and warm, and belongs to kidney, liver and spleen meridians. It has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, consolidating essence, reducing urine, preventing miscarriage, improving eyesight and stopping diarrhea. It was first published in Shennong Materia Medica Classic and was listed as the top grade. Generally speaking, sweet taste has a nourishing effect, sweet and slightly warm, and it can neutralize qi, which can not only tonify yang, but also benefit yin, and has the characteristics of being warm but not dry, and nourishing without stagnation. Effect of consolidating semen and preventing miscarriage on sex hormones. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the innate foundation, which contains Yuan Yin and Yuan Yang, and is the root of human reproductive development and the motive force of functional activities of viscera.

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Cuscuta chinensis likes high temperature and humid climate, and has strict requirements on soil and strong adaptability. Wild dodder is commonly found in plains, wasteland, graves, land margins and plants of Leguminosae, Compositae, Spartina and Dipteraceae.

When it meets a suitable host, it winds around it, forming a suction root at the contact point and extending into the host. After the suction root enters the host tissue, some tissues differentiate into conduits and sieve tubes, which are connected with the conduits and sieve tubes of the host respectively to absorb nutrients and water from the host. Once the young shoots of Cuscuta chinensis are wound around the host plant, it has strong vitality and vigorous growth, and it is most likely to parasitize leguminous plants.

Cuscuta chinensis is mainly distributed in China, Iran, Afghanistan, Japan, North Korea, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Australia. Born in fields, sunny places on hillsides, roadside shrubs or seaside dunes at an altitude of 2-3 meters.

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