Tianshan Snow Lotus, also known as "Snow Lotus", is called "Tagayilis" in the local Uyghur language. It is a perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the Asteraceae family. It is a rare and precious Chinese herbal medicine unique to Xinjiang. It grows on steep cliffs and in ice-stained rock crevices at an altitude of about 4,000 meters in the Tianshan Mountains. The climate there is extremely cold and the snow remains all year round, so ordinary plants cannot survive at all, but Snow Lotus does. It can grow tenaciously in the severe cold of dozens of degrees below zero and in the hypoxic environment with thin air. This unique living habit and unique growth environment make it natural and rare, and create its unique pharmacological effects and magical medicinal value. People regard snow lotus as the "king of herbs" and "the best medicine".
Snowdrops take 6-8 years from seed germination to bolting and flowering; they bloom from July to August of the last year. The larger the flowers, the better the quality. The roots, stems and leaves of Snow Lotus are rich in alkaloids, flavonoids, volatile oils, lactones, steroids, polysaccharides and reducing substances. Its flower buds are richer in trace elements and amino acids. It has the functions of strengthening yin and strengthening yang, and can cure all cold diseases. Regarding its pharmacology, there are many records in ancient documents: "The Biography of Emperor Mu" of Jin Dynasty says that the emperor asked the Queen Mother for the elixir of immortality, and the Queen Mother took the Tianshan Snow Lotus as a gift; "Gan Yuan Xiaoshi" said that it can remove cold phlegm; "Sichuan" "Traditional Chinese Medicine" states that it can remove cold, nourish blood, warm the uterus, and treat irregular menstruation and metrorrhagia in women; "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Chu Ci", "Historical Records", "Shan Hai Jing" and "Uyghur Medicine Chronicles", " The Xinjiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Manual records the functions of snow lotus: There is snow lotus in the Tianshan Mountains, which grows in the mountains. It has the functions of removing cold and strengthening yang, strengthening muscles and relaxing collaterals, and treating soreness and weakness in the waist and knees. It is the best medicine for prolonging life. Throughout the ages, Tianshan Snow Lotus has always been a nourishing product that people have longed for.
Among the people in Xinjiang, snow lotus is a household name and has been used for a long time. Uighurs use its whole plant to treat rheumatoid arthritis, cold and pain in the lower abdomen, irregular menstruation in women, and red and leucorrhea. Mongolian people use its above-ground parts to treat tuberculosis asthma, rheumatic low back pain, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, muscle and bone injuries in women, etc. The Kazakhs use it to treat postpartum conditions such as retained placenta, cough due to cold lungs, opaque measles, and bleeding due to trauma.
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Nutrition Ingredients:
Modern scientific research has proven that Tianshan Snow Lotus contains a variety of beneficial ingredients for human body functions. It can play an excellent
regulating and health-care role on the human body:
1. Sex is hot. It has a good effect on waist and knee pain, sexual dysfunction, irregular menstruation, painful menstruation and metrorrhagia caused by rheumatism and kidney deficiency.
2. It is rich in protein and amino acids, which can effectively regulate the body's pH, enhance human immunity and resist fatigue
and have anti-aging effects.
Snow lotus: strengthens muscles and strengthens yang, stimulates menstruation and activates blood circulation, warms menstruation and removes blood stasis, disperses cold and removes dampness. It is mainly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, male impotence and other symptoms, and female uterine cold and abdominal pain, menstruation. Irregularities and other diseases.
3. Contains natural Snow Lotus Astragalus 5, Snow Lotus Lactone, Snow Lotus Polysaccharide, etc. Its sun protection factor is as high as 22DSE. Therefore
It can effectively protect the skin from ultraviolet rays, improve skin pigmentation, delay human aging, and keep people young
Snow lotus has physiologically active active ingredients. Among them, umbeliferolide has obvious antibacterial, antihypertensive, sedative, and antispasmodic effects; scopolamine has anti-wind, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, expectorant and anti-tumor effects. The clinical effectiveness in treating acute and chronic bronchitis is 96%. . 6%; apigenin has smooth muscle antispasmodic and anti-gastric ulcer effects; p-benzene has obvious choleretic effects. Of particular interest is the colchicine contained in snow lotus. This component is a typical representative of cell mitosis and can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. It is used clinically to treat cancer, especially breast cancer and skin cancer. , leukemia and Hodgkin's disease also have a certain role. It has specific effects on acute attacks of gout, reducing inflammation and quickly relieving pain within 12-24 hours. Long-term use can reduce the number of attacks. In addition, it also has estrogen-like activity, which can prolong the estrus and post-estrus, and shorten the estrus and pro-estrus in rats.
However, colchicine is highly toxic and can cause nausea, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, and in severe cases, side effects such as intestinal paralysis, constipation, and sore limbs. Because snow lotus contains colchicine, which is highly curative but highly toxic, people should not take too much when using snow lotus to make wine to treat rheumatoid arthritis and gynecological diseases.