What are the effects and functions of salt rabbit silk?

Salt rabbit silk is a plant of the flower family. It is usually used as medicine and has high medicinal value. However, salt rabbit silk is relatively mild in nature and has many benefits to the body. It can be used to treat many diseases and has a good preventive effect on many diseases. If you want to better exert the medicinal effect of salt rabbit silk, you need to understand the role and function of salt rabbit silk. The following introduces the role and function of salt rabbit silk.

The efficacy and function of salt rabbit silk

1. Aphrodisiac effect

Experiments have shown that dodder can enhance the sexual vitality of fruit flies and significantly increase their mating rate. The strength of its effect is positively correlated with the dosage concentration. Gavage of Cuscuta australis decoction to "yang deficiency" mice can significantly increase their body weight, kidney weight, thymus weight, white blood cell count, red blood cell count, hemoglobin and superoxide dismutase activity; gavage of male mice can significantly prolong the mice's swimming time and survival time under hypoxic conditions, and also enhance the mice's nonspecific resistance.

2. Effects on endocrine

Oral administration of Cuscuta australis aqueous extract to female rats increased the weight of the anterior pituitary, ovaries and uterus, but had no effect on the level of luteinizing hormone (LH) in plasma; it increased the number of HCG/LH receptors in the rat ovaries, while the Ka value was reduced compared with the control group. Oral administration of Cuscuta australis aqueous extract to ovariectomized rats can enhance the LH secretion response of the pituitary gland to the injection of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LRH) in ovariectomized anesthetized rats. The plasma LH level reached the highest level at 90 minutes after injection, which can be increased by 241.58%. Therefore, silk seeds can increase the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian luteinizing function. This effect is not due to their direct stimulation of the secretion of pituitary luteinizing hormone, but rather to increased responsiveness of the pituitary to LRH and the ovary to LH.

3. Effects on heart rate and blood pressure

Cuscuta soy sauce (made from Cuscuta and bean cake), infusion and tincture can enhance the contractility of isolated toad hearts. The former can increase heart rate, while the latter two can reduce it. Intravenous injection of the infusion into anesthetized dogs has the effect of lowering blood pressure.

4. Delaying the formation of cataracts

Studies have shown that oral administration of Cuscuta australis water extract to rats can delay the formation of cataracts caused by galactose in rats, with the percentage of transparent lenses being 33.3%. Its mechanism of action is that Cuscuta australis can reduce the activity of aldose reductase in rats with cataracts caused by galactose, enhance the activities of polyol dehydrogenase, hexokinase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, and inhibit and correct the abnormal changes of enzymes in the lenses of rats with cataracts.

5. Other functions

Giving mice 1g/kg of the water extract of the whole plant of Cuscuta australis by oral administration can significantly reduce the excitability and convulsions caused by electrical stimulation of mice, and can enhance the anesthetic effect of phenobarbital on mice under hypoxic conditions and prolong their survival time. The extract can antagonize the excitatory effects caused by amphetamine and show obvious analgesic activity.