What is Curculigo orchioides or Xian Mao?

Contents

• Basic Botanical Info and Identification:What is Curculigo orchioides or Xian Mao?.
• Botanical Description:Curculigo orchioides.
• Curculigo orchioides Phytochemicals and Constitutents.
• History Registrations:Rhizoma Curculiginis.
• Actions and Uses:Curculigo orchioides.
• Pharmacological Effects:Curculigo orchioides.
• Rhizoma Curculiginis Boost Yang Preparations.
• Research Update: rhizoma Curculiginis.

Applications and Properties:

Applications:

Inadequate for recuperating the Kidney-Yang, the impotence life door fire weakm, enuresis frequency,tonify kidney and prevent impotence.
Kidney weak and waist sour,bone and muscle pain,or coldness.tonifying kidney and liver,strong bone,drive away coldness,warm waist and knee,get rid of pain.
Good for spleen deficiency,abdominal pain,diarrhea.Tonifying life fire to warm spleen and boost Yang,stop cold diarrhoea.
Major Uses: strong qi,support kidney Yang,strong bones and muscle,dispel code. can be used to treat ED, bone soft,knee pain,etc.
Combination Classicals.

Properties:

Immune function/On macrophage phagocytosis.inhibition of murine T lymphocyte percentage.
Effect on Normal rat pituitary - ovarian endocrine.
Anti-inflammatory effect.Antibacterial effect.Anti-tumor effects.
Erythrocyte membrane Na (+) and K (+)-ATP enzyme activity.
Balance cyclic AMP/cyclic GMP.
Dosage: take as decoction or drink,3~10 grams.

Safety and Toxicity:

Oral for mice ethanol extract sap of Rhizoma Curculiginis as concentration equal to raw herb 150 g/kg,no death in 7 days,thus prove its toxic effects very low.

Reference:

• 1.What is Curculigo orchioides or Xian Mao?

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♣ last edit date:25th,Oct.2010.