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Plus 6,743 TCM formulas connecting herbs together

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🌿 Herb

Desertliving Cistanche

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🌿 All Herb data fields for Desertliving Cistanche

🌿 Names

Pinyin Name

Rou Cong Rong

中文名 (Chinese)

肉苁蓉

Latin Name

Herba Cistanches; Cistanches Herba

English Name

Desertliving Cistanche

Alias Names

肉松蓉; 黑司令; 纵蓉; 地精; 马足; 马芝; 大芸; 寸芸

☯ TCM Properties

Properties (性味)

Sweet; Salty; Warm

Meridians (归经)

Kidney; Large Intestine

Part Used

Fleshy stem

Therapeutic Class (EN)

Yang Reinforcing Drugs

功效分类 (CN)

补阳药

🩺 Clinical Profile

Function (功能)

To reinforce the kidney, replenish vital essence and blood, and induce taxation.

Indication (主治)

Impotence, infertility, backache, limp aching lumbus and knees, weakness in sinews and bones, intestinal dry and constipation.

Clinical Manifestations

1. hypotensive2. promoting saliva secretion.

🔗 External References

HERB DB

HERB004692 ↗

SymMap

338 ↗

TCMID

1883

TCMSP

338

TCM-ID

1740

🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (31 fields)

name

Desertliving Cistanche

chinese name

肉苁蓉

pinyin name

Rou Cong Rong

latin name

Herba Cistanches; Cistanches Herba

english name

Desertliving Cistanche

properties english

Sweet; Salty; Warm

meridians english

Kidney; Large Intestine

use part

Fleshy stem

symmap herb id

338

tcmid id

1883

tcmsp id

338

herb id str

HERB004692

function text

To reinforce the kidney, replenish vital essence and blood, and induce taxation.

indication

Impotence, infertility, backache, limp aching lumbus and knees, weakness in sinews and bones, intestinal dry and constipation.

clinical manifestations

1. hypotensive2. promoting saliva secretion.

therapeutic en class

Yang Reinforcing Drugs

therapeutic cn class

补阳药

tcm id id

1740

alias name

肉松蓉; 黑司令; 纵蓉; 地精; 马足; 马芝; 大芸; 寸芸

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How relationships are computed

Clinical Trials / Meta-Analyses / References: direct foreign-key link via subject_entity_id (Phase 2d wireup)
Formula ↔ Herbs: text bridge via formulas.herbs_in_pinyin matching herbs.pinyin_name
Herb ↔ Ingredient: empty — needs HERB_herb_ingredient import
Ingredient ↔ Target: empty — needs HERB_ingredient_target import
Target ↔ Disease: empty — needs HERB_target_disease import
Herb → Target → Disease (full chemical spine): awaiting Phase 2e link tables