Rabbit silk properties and efficacy

Cuscuta is a traditional Chinese medicine. Please do not think of Cuscuta as an animal. It is a vine, a parasitic plant. There are no green leaves in this plant and it will only keep climbing upwards wherever it parasitizes. However, this Chinese herbal medicine is rich in nutritional value and has a good effect on helping us nourish yin and tonify the kidneys. Next, I will introduce to you the medicinal properties and origin of Cuscuta.

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."

From the above article, we learned about the medicinal properties of Cuscuta seeds. First of all, everyone should know that under normal circumstances, most Cuscuta seeds grow in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian and are plants in the southern region. They are relatively rare in our north. This Chinese medicine can be integrated into traditional Chinese medicine and has a very good effect.