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Cnidium also known as snake rice, double kidney, as the fruit of Umbelliferae plant Cnidium, 6-8 months each year, when the fruit is ripe yellow harvest, cut the whole plant, hit the fruit, dried and can be used as medicine. Its warm, taste hard, into the kidney, spleen two classics. According to the determination, the fruit contains essential oils, mainly terpenes, cannes, isoborneol, bergamot and angelic acid esters, etc. It has the effects of warming the kidney, promoting yang, removing wind, dampness, and killing insects. It is used to treat men. Impotence, scrotum wet itch, women with vaginal pruritus, uterine cold infertility, rheumatism, phlegm and sore syndrome. "The new book of Materia Medica," said that "its function is rather odd, both inside and outside can be treated, but the outside world is particularly good." On the market, the fruits of the dry and ripening plants of the same family of dry leaves of the same family are pretendered as Cnidium monnieri.
The authentic Cnidium has an elliptical appearance and is composed of 2 points of fruit, about 2 mm long and 1 mm in diameter. The surface is grayish yellow and the top has 2 outwardly curved, persistent style bases. The back of the fruit is slightly raised and there are 2 The vertical line of slightly protruding brown, which has a light-colored line; peel crispy, cut into small seeds after the inside, gray-brown, oily; smell the smell of gas, taste cool and chewy tongue sense.
The appearance of the fruit of pseudo-cressed celery is nearly circular, 1 to 1.5 mm long, slightly smaller than the original, the surface is gray-brown or gray-green, the fruit is oval, the micro-curvature is kidney-shaped, the back bulge is obvious, with a protruding Light-colored ridges 5; After the fruit is cut open, there are also 1 small seeds, but kidney-shaped, with longitudinal edges; after rubbing by hand, there is a rich celery aroma, mouth tastes cool and micro Bitter, no tongue feeling.
Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that Cnidium has a sex hormone-like effect. Its ethanol extract is injected subcutaneously to prolong the estrus period of experimental animals, enhance libido, and also has antifungal and weak anti-trichomonad effects, while the pseudoceps Although the fruits are the same family of plants as Cnidium, they do not have these functions and therefore cannot be used in place of Cnidium.
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