Latin name: cistanche salsa (ca mey.) G. beck.
Form Description: Orobanchaceae Cistanche genus, annual or multi-year root parasitic herb, no chlorophyll. Leaves alternate, scale-like. Flowers solitary, spike or raceme. Anthers long oval, the base of a small tip. All inflorescence bracts shorter, ovate-lanceolate pale yellow corolla tube, lobes purple or lilac, often dry to keep color unchanged. 12 species of Xinjiang Production 2.
Habitats and adaptation: desertification often born in saline, is parasitic on Kalidium, anabasine genus Salsola genus Nitraria, pipa wood species, the habitat loose soil, permeability good, moderate and severe salt of. Adaptation mechanism to be studied.
Distribution: Distribution of Xinjiang, but resources are scarce.
Main use: precious Chinese herbal medicines. Whole plant medicine, has Wenshen aphrodisiac, laxative, tonic effect. Indications impotence and nocturnal emission, waist and knee Leng Tong, blood constipation embolism, recent studies indicate that the species still control the effect of Alzheimer's disease, but the medicinal value and as Cistanche deserticola. |
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