What are the effects and functions of rabbit silk and how to eat it?

When you hear the name Cuscuta, you may think that it is an animal. In fact, Cuscuta is a traditional Chinese medicinal material and a parasitic plant. It contains very rich nutritional value and can help us achieve the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney. Maybe everyone knows very little about this traditional Chinese medicinal material, so what are the effects and functions of Cuscuta and how to eat it?

Dodder is also known as silk-spinning seed, motherless vine, rootless vine, and rose seed. Dodder is a parasitic plant with a special physiological structure. Its cells do not have chloroplasts. It uses a vine-like structure to cling to other plants. It extends sharp spines from the part where it contacts the host and pierces the host directly into the phloem, absorbing nutrients to survive, and further storing them as starch granules in the tissues.

The Chinese medicine Cuscuta is the seed of the dicotyledonous plants Convolvulaceae, including Cuscuta australis, Cuscuta australis, and Cuscuta australis. It has the effects of nourishing the kidney and essence, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, and consolidating the fetus and stopping diarrhea.

Cuscuta australis is also known as eel vine. Common species include Japanese dodder and Chinese dodder. The former is more common. It is distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Hunan, Taiwan and other provinces and regions. In addition to parasitizing longan, it can also parasitize many fruit trees and trees such as lychee, citrus, pomelo, butterfly fruit, tea, oil tea, tung oil, Taiwan acacia, neem, Dalbergia, willow, etc.

Dodder parasitizes on fruit trees, sucking water and nutrients from the trees. Its vines grow rapidly, often entwining branches and even covering the entire crown, affecting not only the photosynthesis of the leaves.

It causes the leaves to turn yellow and fall off, weakening the tree's vigor. In severe cases, the fruit tree cannot grow, bloom or bear fruit, and may even cause the branches to dry up or the entire plant to die.

Dodder is a climbing herb that parasitizes on fruit trees. It wraps its vines around the trunk and branches, creating constrictions on the branches. The vines form suction cups at the constrictions to absorb nutrients from the tree. The vines grow rapidly, constantly branching out and climbing around the fruit plants, interweaving with each other to cover the entire crown, resembling a "lion's head."

The above is an introduction to the effects, functions and eating methods of rabbit silk. This is a plant that grows in the southern region and is relatively rare in the north. It can be integrated into other Chinese medicines. It has very good therapeutic effects on many diseases, so everyone can learn more about this knowledge.