Cuscuta is the dried mature seeds of the family Cyclophyllaceae, sweet, warm, to the kidney, liver, meridian, with nourishing the liver and kidney, fixing the essence of shrinking urine, safe pregnancy, bright eyes, stopping diarrhea effect. The following is my introduction to the efficacy and role of dodder, I hope to help you oh.

Cuscuta chinensis can lower blood lipids and blood glucose

Cuscuta chinensis polysaccharide gavage diabetes model mice after blood glucose value decreased significantly, body mass increased, the content of hepatic glycogen is also increased, showing that it has an anti-diabetic effect. In addition , Cuscuta chinensis polysaccharides also reduced blood glucose in vivo by increasing the level of superoxide dismutase, and in vitro by inhibiting amylase activity. Cuscuta chinensis flavonoids induced a significant decrease in blood triacylglycerol levels and a significant increase in the number of estrogen receptors in thoracic aortic smooth muscle cells in bilaterally denuded female rats. The aqueous extract of Cuscuta chinensis in vitro cultured adipose tissue from isolated rats promoted the release of free fatty acids, and also accelerated the catabolism of isolated adipose tissue and showed a quantitative-effect relationship.

Cuscuta can be anti-aging and antioxidant

Animal studies have shown that polysaccharides in Cuscuta also have the role of anti-aging and protection of brain tissue. Such as cuscuta polysaccharides make aging model mice serum, liver, kidney in malondialdehyde ***NDA*** content are decreased, superoxide dismutase ***SOD*** and glutathione peroxidase ***GSH-PX*** activity rose, brain tissue lipofuscin ***LF*** decreased, to achieve the scavenging of oxygen free radicals and anti-lipid peroxidation effect to anti-aging. Cuscuta polysaccharides have the effect of decreasing the content of lipid peroxidation

MDA and increasing the activity of anti-peroxidase SOD in the cerebral cortex of mice under stress to protect the brain tissue through anti-lipid peroxidation.

Cuscuta can improve immunity

Animal experiments have shown that the appropriate amount of cuscuta can effectively enhance immunity by increasing the wet weight of the thymus and spleen immune organs, increasing phagocytosis of abdominal macrophages, promoting the proliferative response of splenic lymphocytes, and inducing the production of interleukins.

Cuscuta chinensis has hepatoprotective effect

When using the decoction of Cuscuta chinensis for mice modeled with chronic liver injury, it was found that the serum glutamate aminotransferase and menthionine aminotransferase decreased significantly, while SOD increased, and at the same time, the liver tissue damage of the mice was significantly improved, reflecting the hepatoprotective effect. It indicates that a certain dose of Cuscuta chinensis polysaccharides cultured in vitro with stem cells of rat liver has the efficacy of increasing activity and cell proliferation, thus protecting the stem cells of the liver.

Cuscuta has some eye-opening effect

Cuscuta is able to reduce the degree of lens clouding, galactose cataracts have a delayed and therapeutic effect, and has no adverse effect on growth and development. The decoction of Cuscuta chinensis can basically normalize the activities of aldose reductase, polyol dehydrogenase, hexokinase and catalase in cataractous lens. In addition, Cuscuta chinensis has a corrective effect on the abnormal changes in the content of oxidized reductants and sugars in the lens, preventing the decrease of glutathione as well as restoring its content. The extract of Cuscuta chinensis had a significant inhibitory effect on lens aldose reductase and lipid peroxidation, which decreased with the decrease of the concentration of the extract, and the inhibitory type of aldose reductase activity was non-competitive inhibition.

Cuscuta can help people's heart pulse

"Lei Gong Gun Zhi Lun" said that Cuscuta can "supplement human Wei Qi, help people's heart pulse." This is a certain reason, dodder is warm and sweet, into the kidney meridian, can make up for the kidney essence, kidney essence is enough to heart blood to be nourished, bone marrow is full of, with the benefit of the heart of the brain; into the liver meridian, the liver is the main sparing, sparing function is normal, then the qi and smooth, qi and blood and adjust the meridian, the implementation of the blood is also smooth; into the spleen meridian, the spleen is the master of the transportation for the generation of qi and blood, spleen qi is healthy and the blood of the source of sufficient to ensure that blood can ensure that the heart of blood is full of.

Cuscuta chinensis can resist cerebral ischemia

Experiments have shown that the aqueous extract of cuscuta chinensis has an anti-ischemic effect on the brain. Phantom using bilateral common carotid artery repeated clamping and reperfusion with intraperitoneal injection of sodium nitroprusside to lower the pressure method to establish cerebral ischemia rat model, gavage given to the aqueous extract of Cuscuta chinensis, the results show that it can reduce the number of memory impairment model of the rat Y maze experimental training times, reduce the number of jumping platform experimental errors and subjected to electric shock time, indicating that its ischemic brain injury has a certain protective effect. Cuscuta extract given to rats by gavage could down-regulate the expression of Bax protein and up-regulate the expression of BCI I2 protein in the cerebellar cortex and deep cerebellar nuclei of the ovariectomized model rats, thus protecting the cerebellar neurons.

Cuscuta can tonify the kidney

Rihuazi Materia Medica: Cuscuta "tonifies the five labors and seven injuries, and treats ejaculation". Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine": "treatment of abortion in women". Materia Medica Hui Yan": Cuscuta "for women's lumbar spine pain, abdominal pain, or uterine cold, leaking under the belt". Cuscuta can be sweet, warm can help yang, into the kidney meridian, tonic kidney yang and kidney qi in order to consolidate the essence of yang, can improve the effectiveness of the ability to improve the reproductive endocrine; into the spleen meridian, the spleen and stomach and the surface, can supplement the spleen and stomach weakness and prevent miscarriage.

Yin deficiency fire, Yang strong not atrophy and dry stools are prohibited

Chaos

"Cuscuta" is a congeneric plant of the Japanese Cuscuta ** **. * Kam Lantern*** seeds, used in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Gansu, Sichuan, Jiangxi and other places. Its diameter 2 ~ 5mm, light brown or yellowish brown surface, the seed coat peeled off the embryo is not set, soaked in water into a gelatinous, smooth, under magnification, with an untidy short line of mottled.

Bad

In the genuine mixed with some immature seeds, its shape is slightly smaller than the genuine, darker in color, in the boiling water does not spit, genuine dodder in boiling water will soon have "spinning silk" spit out, and immature seeds, no matter how long to cook only in the color of the color change *** color yellow ****, but still very hard, that is, the hardness of the seed. but still very hard, even with fingernail pressure are not broken. This kind of immature seeds in the genuine product is also always mixed with, but when boiled with water will appear in the bottom of the beaker, if 30% in the beaker, then this dodder can not be used as medicine.