Dendrobium efficacy and effects and consumption methods

Dendrobium is also known as hanging orchid and golden hairpin, and the medicinal part is the stem of Dendrobium cinnabarum, Dendrobium ferruginum, Dendrobium annuus and other plants of the same genus. Dendrobium is sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, belongs to the stomach and kidney meridian, good at nourishing yin and generating fluid, is a good tonic, and is loved by people. Then the efficacy and effects of dendrobium and consumption methods and contraindications are how? Let's take a look.

Benefit the stomach and produce fluid

Dendrobium is sweet, slightly cold, into the stomach, good at nourishing stomach yin, thirst quenching. Dendrobium is good for improving the symptoms of dry mouth, thirst, constipation, loss of appetite, red tongue, etc. caused by heat illness and injury to the stomach yin.

Nourishing Yin and clearing heat

Dendrobium belongs to stomach and liver meridian, it can also improve Yin deficiency, kidney deficiency, impotence and spermatorrhea, soreness of waist and knees, night sweating and low fever, deficiency heat after illness, etc. However, it needs to be used with corresponding herbs for different diseases. Dendrobium has an inhibitory effect on staphylococcus, and can quickly eliminate the high fever caused by acute cholecystitis.

Eye care

Dendrobium can enhance vision and moisten the eyes, and its water decoction can reduce the turbidity of cataract lens and improve the symptoms of unclear vision. At the same time, Dendrobium can also nourish Yin and nourish the kidneys, and has a good effect on the eyesight caused by the deficiency of kidney Yin, such as the darkness of the eyes and vision loss.

Anti-aging

The anti-aging effect of Dendrobium is mainly manifested in two aspects, one is to enhance the activity of oxidative enzymes in blood and promote the proliferation of immune cells; the other is to inhibit the release of pro-inflammatory factors and relieve the damage of skin due to inflammation.

Nourishing the skin

When the human body enters middle age, the yin fluid in the body decreases increasingly, thus accelerating skin aging and making it dark or wrinkled. The mucilage contained in Dendrobium ferruginum has a nourishing and nutritious effect on human skin.

Enhance immunity

Dendrobium ironbark has the function of nourishing yin and nourishing blood. It is rich in polysaccharide substances, which has the function of enhancing immune function. Modern pharmacological research also shows that Dendrobium ironbark can improve stress capacity and has good anti-fatigue and hypoxia resistance.

Lowering blood lipid and blood sugar

Dendrobium can nourish Yin, clear heat and moisten dryness, and it has been a special medicine for treating diabetes since ancient times. Clinical research shows that Dendrobium can not only enhance insulin activity, but also significantly reduce blood sugar level and normalize blood; it can promote circulation, dilate blood vessels and reduce blood cholesterol and triglyceride.

Anti-rheumatism

After people enter middle age, yin and fluid begin to weaken, and the function of tendons and bones gradually decreases. Dendrobium can nourish yin fluid and lubricate joints, thus achieving the effect of strengthening tendons and bones, fluent joints and enhancing anti-rheumatism.

Nourish the five organs

Chinese medicine believes that yin fluid is the material basis of human life, which can nourish the five organs and six bowels, inhibit Yang hyperactivity and fire, and maintain the normal growth and development and reproductive function activities.

Inhibit tumor

Dendrobium has a killing effect on certain cells of malignant tumors such as lung cancer, ovarian cancer, promyelocytic leukemia, etc. It has obvious anti-tumor activity function and is often used in the adjuvant treatment of malignant tumors, and it can also reduce the negative effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Dendrobium contraindications to consumption

1. Dendrobium is easy to converge evil, so it should not be used early for warm-heat disease. 2. Dendrobium is easy to help dampness, so it should not be used by those who have not transformed dryness in wet temperature. 3. Not to be used by those who have cold spleen and stomach. 4. Those with thick and greasy tongue and loose stool should also be used with caution.

Dendrobium consumption method

1. Dendrobium is mostly taken internally, and the amount of decoction into soup is about 6~12 grams. 2. If you focus on clearing heat and producing body fluid and quenching thirst, fresh dendrobium is more effective. 3. The active ingredients in Dendrobium are mainly alkaloids, most of which are insoluble in water. In the decoction, in order to increase the solubility of its active ingredients, the decoction time should be extended, and it can be decocted for 1~2 hours before decocting with other medicines.

Dendrobium Pig's Foot Soup

Ingredients: 10 grams each of Dendrobium and Salvia, 300 grams of boiling, appropriate amount each of wine, green onion, ginger, pepper and salt, and 1000 grams of pork bone soup. Practice: Soften and slice the ginseng; cut the dendrobium; wash the pig lung, blanch it and cut it into pieces and set aside; put the pig bone soup in the soup pot, put in the dendrobium segment, pig lung pieces and ginseng slices, then add salt, cooking wine, green onion, ginger slices and pepper noodles to season, and boil for about 50 minutes.

Dendrobium licorice tea

Ingredients: 12 grams of dendrobium, 9 grams of golden lotus, 6 grams of raw licorice. Directions: Brew all ingredients with boiling water, cover and simmer for 5 minutes, and drink as tea. Efficacy: This formula is suitable for patients with inflammation of the urinary system, symptomatic of poor urination, short and frequent urination, and has a better effect on red and painful pharynx of colds, acute and chronic pharyngitis, acute and chronic tonsillitis.