What are the functions of Curculigo?

Most people's health deteriorates as they age, which is closely related to people's living habits. Of course, diet also plays a vital role. The role of Curculigo is to enhance people's resistance and immunity, and it also plays a positive role in people's anti-cancer. Next, let us understand the role of Curculigo so that we will be more experienced when eating it in the future.

Curculigo is the rhizome of Curculigo, a plant of the Amaryllidaceae family. The dry rhizome is cylindrical, slightly curved, flat at both ends, 3 to 30 cm long and 3 to 8 mm in diameter. The surface is brown or dark brown, rough, wrinkled, with fine and discontinuous horizontal stripes, and scattered with inconspicuous small dot-like lenticels.

1. 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.

2. Promote the secretion of androgen.

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

3. Anti-inflammatory.

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

4Warm the kidney and strengthen 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.

5. Warm the spleen and stop diarrhea.

By taking advantage of its function of replenishing fire, it is used to invigorate the spleen and earth, dispel cold and stop diarrhea, and increase appetite. It can be often used to soak in wine, or used together with ginseng, dried ginger, and 6 white atractylodes.

Dispel cold and dampness, strengthen muscles and bones.

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

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

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

8. Treat arthritis.

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.

9. Regulate endocrine.

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.

10. Anti-tumor effects.

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

11. Antibacterial effect.

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

12. Nourishing.

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.

Curculigo has many functions, some of which are listed above. Especially for some women with weaker bodies, they should know more about this aspect. Only when they understand all these clearly, they will have more sense of measure and self-control in the process of making food, and of course they will be able to live, work and study better. Diet is a topic that we should always pay attention to.