Can Cistanche be used externally?

Cistanche is a very popular health plant in recent years. Its health benefits are particularly outstanding and can bring great benefits to people's bodies. Moreover, the growth conditions of Cistanche are harsh and it has very high requirements for the environment. Therefore, this plant is very precious. Cistanche has many uses. Let’s take a look at whether Cistanche can be used externally. I hope everyone can understand it.

Cistanche is a very precious Chinese medicinal material with extremely high medicinal value, but it cannot be taken for a long time. Cistanche is a warm-natured kidney-tonifying herbal medicine, and its main function is to warm and tonify the kidneys. If you take Cistanche for a long time, you may experience symptoms of yin deficiency, so you must be careful when taking Cistanche. You cannot take it for a long time or in excess.

However, taking Cistanche deserticola appropriately is beneficial to your health. For men, it can nourish the kidneys, improve premature ejaculation, and resist fatigue. It has a good effect on women's uterine cold and infertility, as well as nourishing blood and moistening dryness.

What are the ways to eat Cistanche deserticola?

If you want to use Cistanche to maintain your health, the way you eat it is also very important. There are many ways to eat Cistanche. The most common one is to soak it in wine. Put Cistanche in white wine and seal it for half a month. Cistanche wine has the effect of treating low back pain. In addition, you can also cook Cistanche deserticola into porridge. The porridge cooked with Cistanche deserticola has the effect of treating impotence and long-term accumulation of coldness. You can also use Cistanche deserticola to stir-fry dishes. The dishes made in this way are not only delicious but also have very good therapeutic effects.

Preparation

Fresh and dried slices of Cistanche deserticola can be directly soaked in water, wine, or stewed into soup. Fresh and dried slices of Cistanche deserticola are made by directly slicing and air-drying fresh Cistanche deserticola, so they have better taste, color, and effect than traditional whole Cistanche deserticola.

Pick out impurities from Cistanche deserticola, soak it in clean water, change the water 1-2 times a day (if it is salty Cistanche, soak out all the salt), moisten it thoroughly, slice it (vertical cut), and dry it in the sun.

People who should not

Suitable food: It is suitable for people with constipation due to physical weakness, postpartum constipation, constipation after illness and constipation in the elderly; it is suitable for people with male nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, impotence, low sperm count and infertility; it is suitable for women with leucorrhea, infertility, cold limbs, irregular menstruation, low back and knee pain and other diseases; it is also suitable for patients with hypertension.

Taboos: People who often have loose stools should not eat it.