Introduction to the efficacy and effects of Curculigo wine

Curculigo is a traditional Chinese medicine that is often used to nourish the kidneys and strengthen yang. It is used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat impotence, cold semen, urinary incontinence and other diseases. Curculigo is yang in nature and should not be taken by patients with yin deficiency and excess fire. Using Curculigo to make wine, because alcohol is an organic substance, it can promote the dissolution of the effective ingredients in Curculigo into the wine. Therefore, Curculigo wine also has the effect of nourishing the kidneys, and also has the effect of enhancing human immunity.

Effects and efficacy of Curculigo wine

1. Promote the secretion of androgen.

It can significantly increase the weight of rat seminal vesicles, suggesting that it has an androgen-like effect.

2. Anti-inflammatory.

It has a significant inhibitory effect on the swelling and inflammation of the mouse ear caused by croton oil.

3. Warming the kidney and strengthening yang

It is used for patients with kidney yang deficiency, with symptoms of impotence, cold sperm, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation. It is often used together with Rehmannia glutinosa, Epimedium, Lycium barbarum, Cornus officinalis, etc.

4. Warming the spleen and stopping diarrhea

Taking advantage of its function of replenishing fire, it is used to strengthen the spleen and earth, dispel cold and stop diarrhea, and increase appetite. It can be often used to make wine, or used together with ginseng, dried ginger, and white atractylodes.

5. Dispel cold and dampness, and strengthen muscles and bones.

It is used for cold-damp waist pain caused by kidney yang deficiency, rheumatism, and rheumatoid arthritis of the cold-damp type. It can be used together with Astragalus, Angelica, Morinda officinalis, Eucommia, Chuanwu, 6, and Asarum.

7. Anti-hypoxia and anti-high temperature effects. It has sedative and anticonvulsant effects.

8. Erxian Capsule can prolong the survival time of animals, reduce lipofuscin in the heart, brain and liver, and inhibit thrombosis.

9. Rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and osteoarthritis in the elderly have a long course of disease, gradually transforming from hot syndrome to cold syndrome, and from excess syndrome to deficiency syndrome. For patients with cold syndrome, mixed syndrome of cold and heat, and those with yang deficiency and kidney deficiency, the method of warming yang and dispersing cold is often used, and Curculigo and Epimedium can be used. The two drugs can not only increase the hormone level in the body, but also have anti-inflammatory and anti-rheumatic effects.

11. Menopausal women have endocrine dysfunction and an imbalance in the ratio of male and female hormones in their bodies. Erxian Decoction may have the effect of regulating endocrine function.

12. The acetone extract of Curculigo has an inhibitory effect on solid tumors of Ehrlich ascites carcinoma.

13. The 100% decoction has an inhibitory effect on Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri and Sonnelian by using the flat plate trenching method.

14. Since the 1980s, scholars from China, India and Japan have conducted systematic research on the chemical components of Curculigo. The compounds separated and identified mainly include cycloartane-type triterpenoid saponins, chlorophenols, phenolic glycosides, lignan glycosides, flavonoids, bioalkaloids, long-chain aliphatic compounds, etc.

15. For example, treatment of impotence, male sexual dysfunction, menopausal syndrome and depression. Treat cold-dampness arthralgia, etc.

Curculigo wine can treat impotence and spermatorrhea, cold pain in the waist and knees, cold sperm in men, infertility due to cold uterus in women, enuresis in the elderly, and residual urine.

16. Enhance immune function.

Curculigo can enhance the phagocytic function of peritoneal macrophages in mice, has no effect on the T cell system of normal mice, and has a significant effect on increasing the T cells of mice immunosuppressed by cyclophosphamide. Erxian capsule composed of Curculigo and Epimedium can increase the IgG content and the total complement in serum, indicating that the drug has a certain enhancing effect on both humoral immunity and cellular immunity.