Curculigo, a traditional Chinese medicine, is warm in nature, pungent in taste and toxic, and has the effects of warming kidney, nourishing yang and strengthening bones and muscles. It is often used to treat impotence, cold urine, metrorrhagia, cold pain in the heart, cold arthralgia in the waist and feet, carbuncle and scrofula, and is a special medicine for tonifying yang and warming kidney.
In the market, the dried roots of Ranunculaceae (also known as Artemisia rupestris) are pretending to be curculigo, so pay attention to identification when using them.
Never use fake iron hammer instead of Rhizoma Curculiginis as medicine. If you take it by mistake, it will easily lead to poisoning and even serious consequences of death. Be cautious.
Extended information Curculigo rhizome, also known as Radix Et Rhizoma Dryophylli and Huang Mao Ginseng, is the rhizome of Curculigo rhizome of Amaryllidaceae. Every year, before germination in February-April or when seedlings wither in July-September, roots are dug, washed, fibrous roots and roots are removed, and dried in the sun to be used as medicine.
The dried rhizome is cylindrical, slightly curved, flat at both ends, 3 ~10cm long, 3 ~ 8mm in diameter, with brown or dark brown surface, rough, uneven shrinkage, fine and discontinuous transverse stripes, and scattered with inconspicuous tiny dot lenticels.
Those who have not removed the fibrous roots are often clustered at one end of the rhizome, with thin fibrous roots at both ends and thick fibrous roots in the middle, with extremely dense annular transverse stripes; It is hard and brittle, easy to break, flat in section, with micro-granular, light gray-brown skin or reddish brown due to gelatinization, and dark near the center; It has a pungent aroma and a slightly bitter taste.
CCTV-Curculigo is a special medicine for tonifying yang and warming kidney, which is true and false.