Cuscuta chinensis
Contents
Nomenclature
Other Names:
Historical Use of Cuscuta chinensis
Cuscuta chinensis in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Background
Tusibing ÝËË¿±ý
Chinese Name (pinyin): Tusizi
Chinese Name :
Common Name :Dodder Seed
Specific Name : Semen cuscutae
Scientific Name:
Collection : The plant is collected in autumn when the fruit is ripe, dried in the sun, the seed is collected and removed from foreign matters.
Description : Subspherical, 1 - 1.5mm in diameter. Externally greyish brown or yellowish brown with numerous fine projecting dot, a slightly sunken linear raphe at one end. Texture hard, difficult to break with finger, slight odor and taste weak.
Identification : Macerate a small quantity in boiling water, a mucilage is produce on the surface, boil until the testa is broken, yellowish white silky rotary embryo is revealed. Total ash: Not more than 10.0% (Appendix lX K)Processing: Eliminate foreign matters, was, clean and dry in the sun.Stir fried with salt : Stir fry clean Semen Cuscutae as described under the method for stir frying with salt water (Appendix ll D) until the seeds become slightly convex. Externally brownish yellow, broken and slightly aromatic. A mucilage is produced on the surface after macerating the processed Semen Cuscutae in appropriate quantity of boiling water. A yellow to dark brown curved and rotary embryo is revealed after boiling.
Processing :
Action : To arrest seminal discharge and abnormal urination, prevent abortion, improve eyesight and relieve diarrhea by replenishing and tonifying the liver and the kidney.
Indication : impotence, seminal emission, dripping of urine after urination, aching and weakness of the loins and knees, blurred vision and tinnitus; threatened abortion due to hypofunction of the kidney; diarrhea due to hypofunction of the spleen and the kidney
external: vitiligo
Precautions :
Dosage : 6 to 12 g, appropriate quantity for external use.
Storage : Preserve in a ventilated and dry place.
Synonymns for Cuscuta chinensis
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Cuscuta chinensis
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Cuscuta chinensis in the Treatment of Epilepesy
Basic Science
Animal Studies
Cohort, Case-Control and Non-Randomized Trials
Randomized Controlled Trials
Meta-Analysis
1st Five Results: pubmed search
Qianhui Zhao, Ying Liu, Yanan Chuo, Xiao Wang, Yulan Jiao, Wanyu Shi, Yongzhan Bao
Cuscuta chinensis flavonoids alleviate ovarian damage in offspring female mice induced by BPA exposure during pregnancy by regulating the central carbon metabolism pathway.
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf: 2024, 275;116253
[PubMed:38537475]
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Qi Boxiang, Sheng Liping, Qian Tong
Cuscuta chinensis Lam. Flavonoids (CCLF) alleviate the symptoms of sepsis-associated encephalopathy via PI3K/Nrf2 pathway.
Behav Brain Res: 2024;114887
[PubMed:38499156]
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Ling Zhou, Chunqing Yang, Zhiqiang Liu, Linlin Chen, Ping Wang, Yuan Zhou, Mei Yuan, Lan-Ting Zhou, Xueren Wang, Ling-Qiang Zhu
Neuroprotective effect of the traditional decoction Tian-Si-Yin against Alzheimer's disease via suppression of neuroinflammation.
J Ethnopharmacol: 2024, 321;117569
[PubMed:38086513]
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Hong Liu, Yang Huang, Jing Yang, Xuejiao Xu, Qiaomei Dai, Yuwei Zhang, Li Zhao, Mengdi Zhang, Jing Zhang, Tonghui Liu, Lili Zhong
Involvement of estrogen receptor activation in kaempferol-3-O-glucoside's protection against aging-related cognition impairment and microglial inflammation.
Exp Cell Res: 2023, 433(2);113849
[PubMed:37926343]
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Junren Chen, Kexin Zhong, Siqi Qin, Yiqi Jing, Shengmeng Liu, Dan Li, Cheng Peng
Astragalin: a food-origin flavonoid with therapeutic effect for multiple diseases.
Front Pharmacol: 2023, 14;1265960
[PubMed:37920216]
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[DOI]
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