(1) Epimedium tastes pungent, sweet, warm, attributed to the liver, kidney meridian, the body is light and male, can be ascending or descending. It has the effect of tonifying the kidney and strengthening the yang, dispelling wind and removing dampness, and strengthening the muscles and bones. The main treatment of kidney impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, sperm cold infertility, urinary incontinence, kidney deficiency, cough, lumbar and knee weakness, contracture of tendons and bones, rheumatism paralysis, numbness and constriction, paraplegia, limbs, menopausal hypertension, small gonorrhea, wheezing and coughing, etc..

(2) Used for kidney impotence, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, lumbar and knee impotence, cold limbs and fear of cold. For the treatment of impotence and premature ejaculation, it can be used with immortelle, cornelian cherry, cistanchis, etc. For the treatment of lumbar and knee impotence and weakness, it can be used with eucommia, bacopa monnieri, dog spine and other products.

(3) Used for cold and damp paralysis or limb contracture numbness. Treatment of rheumatic paralysis in cold and dampness, as well as numbness of the limbs or contracture of the muscles and bones, etc., can be combined with Wei Ling Xian, Ba Ji Tian, cinnamon, angelica, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong and so on.

(4) Dispel wind and remove dampness: used for rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis, can be used with astragalus, angelica, qiangwu, gentiana and so on.

(5) Lowering blood pressure: used for yin and yang deficiency hypertension, can be used together with Xiangmao, Ba Ji Tian, Huang Bai, Zhi Mu and other yang and yin nourishing medicines, such as Er Xian Tang.

2, edible methods:

(1) Epimedium yam noodles: dry noodles, Epimedium 9 grams, 100 grams of yam, 20 grams of cinnamon meat, cooking wine, soy sauce, each appropriate amount. Yam peeled, washed and cut into pieces. Epimedium is washed, decocted juice, juice with water, yam, cinnamon meat decoction 20 minutes, under the noodles, noodles cooked with wine and soy sauce can be.

(2) Epimedium oyster meat soup: Epimedium 9 grams, oysters 50 grams, 24 grams of ginseng, 20 jujubes, ginger, salt. Epimedium, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, oyster meat, ginger, jujube washed into the pot, add the right amount of water, boil over high heat, cook over low heat for 2 hours, add salt to taste.

(3) double phoenix aphrodisiac porridge: bone marrow fat, turtle plate, Epimedium 7 grams each, 100 grams of round-grained rice, 2 sparrows, half a chicken, salt, ginger, each moderate. Bone-setting fat, turtle plate, Epimedium wrapped in gauze, put into the pot with water, decoction soup slag juice, sparrow, chicken, medicine juice, ginger, salt, round-grained rice with cooking into porridge.