Does Dendrobium candidum nourish the kidneys?

For some friends with diabetes and high blood pressure, Dendrobium officinale is not unfamiliar. In fact, Dendrobium officinale has very high medicinal value. In daily life, if we can drink water soaked with Dendrobium officinale, we can absorb the nutrients in it. So, does Dendrobium officinale nourish the kidneys? In fact, Dendrobium officinale has no kidney-tonifying effect, so don’t use it blindly.

Medicinal value

Nature, flavor and effects: sweet, slightly cold.

It produces fluid and nourishes the stomach; nourishes yin and clears away heat; moistens the lungs and benefits the kidneys; improves eyesight and strengthens the waist.

Pharmacological Action

Body-stimulating effect: Dendrobium officinale has a body-stimulating effect, which mainly promotes glandular secretion and organ movement.

Hypoglycemic effect: Dendrobium candidum can reduce the blood sugar level of diabetes induced by streptozotocin.

Enhance the body's immunity: Dendrobium officinale granules (TPSH) can promote the phagocytic function of macrophages in tumor-bearing animals, enhance the proliferation and differentiation of T lymphocytes and the activity of NK cells, and can significantly increase the serum hemolysin value of tumor-bearing animals, indicating that TPSH has a certain effect on improving nonspecific immune function, specific cellular immunity and humoral immune function.

Dendrobium candidum: The stem is erect, cylindrical, 9-35 cm long, 2-4 mm thick, unbranched, and has many nodes; the leaves are in two rows, papery, oblong-lanceolate, and the edges and midribs are often lavender. The raceme often emerges from the upper part of the old stem where the leaves have fallen, with 2-3 flowers; the bracts are membranous, light white, ovate, 5-7 mm long, the sepals and petals are yellow-green, nearly similar, oblong-lanceolate, the lip is white, with a green or yellow callus at the base, ovate-lanceolate, slightly shorter than the sepals, and reflexed in the middle. The column is yellow-green, about 3 mm long, with a purple dot on each side of the tip; the cap is white, long ovate-triangular, about 2.3 mm long, with a nearly acute tip and two lobes. Flowering period is from March to June.

It grows on semi-shaded and moist rocks in mountains at an altitude of up to 1,600 meters. It is mainly distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places in China. Its stem is used as medicine, and it belongs to the yin-tonifying medicine among tonic medicines: it benefits the stomach and produces body fluid, nourishes yin and clears away heat.