Cynomorium is used for impotence in men and lack of libido in women due to deficiency of Kidney Yang energy.

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Cynomorium Classical Literature Registration.

Herba Cynomorii Extract INCI Name Cynomorium Songaricum Extract Malta Fungus extract Cynomorium songaricum Rupr Stem extract Songaria Cynomorium Herb Suo Yan Zi Maltese mushroom photo picture image Earliest registration origins from Ben Cao Yan Yi Bu Yi:"Big tonify Yin,benefit spirit and Qi,boost stool.Constipation of weak,take it and plays similar as cistanches,better to take as soup,do not use if no constipation."

 Ben Cao Cong Xin:"Benefit Jing and Erect Yang,nurish dry and warm spirit,treat dysfunction and weak,smooth stool.Do not use it for premature ejacution."

 Good for treatment of weak and constipation.Gang Mu:nurish driness and benefit jing.

 Treat erection dysfunction and weak.Ben Cao Yuan Shi:Tonify Yin Blood and weak fire,exciting Yang and Strong spirit,nurish Yin and benefit bone.Nei Meng Gu Zhong Cao Yao:treat erection dysfunction and ejacution,soft and sour legs,spirit weakness,old constipation.

 Ben Cao Gang Mu:"taste bitter,warm,no poison.Tonify Yin Qi,boost spirit and blood,relieve constipation.Nurish dry and warm Jing,treat dysfunction."

 Chuo Gen Lu:functions hundreds times of herba cistanches.

 Ben Cao Cong Xin:nurish sperm and exciting Yang,relieve driness and treat dysfunction,smooth stool.

 Ben Cao Tu Jie"Tonify Yin and Nurish Jing,benefit jing,for cases of constipation and sour soft legs,take as precious and key herbs."

 Zhong Yao Zhi:tonify kidney,smooth stool,strong waist and knees,main for man erection dysfunction,women pregnant,blood dry and constipation,waist and knee weak.

 Cynomorium didn't enter into the Materia Medica until Zhu Danxi of the Yuan Dynasty period mentioned it in his Bencao Yanyi Buyi (Supplement and Expansion of Materia Medica, 1347). The Yuan Dynasty, which was the time of Mongolian rule, introduced several plants from the Mongolian area, including this one. Zhu Danxi also offered a formula with cynomorium that became quite famous, Huqian Wan (Hidden Tiger Pills), used for impotence and/or for weakness and atrophy of the legs. The formula is named for the tiger in crouched position, ready to spring. In order to attain that position (which is also replicated in Gong Fu with the "crouching tiger" technique), one must have great strength in the tendons, ligaments, and muscles of the legs. This strengthening is sometimes referred to as "hardening" of yin (substance of the body); but that doesn't necessarily indicate lack of flexibility. The weak leg disorders were first described in the Neijing Suwen (ca. 100 A.D.), in the chapter on wei syndrome, which is translated as atrophy or wilting syndrome. There were five types of atrophy listed, associated with each of the five organs. The disorder was thought to derive from heat or damp-heat damaging the yin.
 Herba Cynomorii Extract INCI Name Cynomorium Songaricum Extract Malta Fungus extract Cynomorium songaricum Rupr Stem extract Songaria Cynomorium Herb Suo Yan Zi Maltese mushroom photo picture image

 Huqian Wan is comprised of anemarrhena, phellodendron, cooked rehmannia, tortoise shell, tiger's bone (no longer used), peony, citrus, and dry ginger; sometimes cistanche (another parasitic desert plant) is added. The formula was recently described by Kong Lingqi (Resolutely Upholding the Concept of Hardening the Kidneys Method, by Kong Lingqi, Sichuan Chinese Medicine, 1998 (6): 8-9, translated by Bob Flaws, and edited here):

 The Suwen chapter titled Treatise on Wilting says, 'The ancestral sinews rule the binding of the bones and the disinhibition of the joints.' If damp heat invades and assails the muscles and flesh and sinews and bones, the qi and blood will not move. The sinews will become slack and not pulled together and, hence, will be useless. If severe, the liver and kidneys will become debilitated and consumed and the ancestral sinews will cease their duty. Master Ye Tianshi, in his Guide to Clinical Conditions and Case Histories chapter titled Vacuity Taxation highly praised Zhu Danxi's Huqian Wan for their effect of subduing yang and hardening yin. These pills use phellodendron and anemarrhena's bitterness to harden yin. This causes the source to be cleared and flow to be cleaned. Atractylodes (cangzhu) and coix (yiyiren) dispel dampness. Cistanche (roucongrong), cynomorium (suoyang), achyranthes (niuxi), and tiger bone (hugu) strengthen the sinews and bones. Peony (baishao) and chaenomeles (mugua) emolliate the sinews and relax tension. Cooked rehmannia (shudi) and tortoise shell (guiban) enrich yin and boost the marrow. Thus damp heat is discharged and transformed, yin essence is subdued and astringed, the ancestral sinews are hardened and strengthened, and the feet are able to walk.

 Because of these uses, the formula has been suggested by Chinese clinicians as a possible therapy for paralytic disorders, such as multiple sclerosis and ALS.

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last edit date:2nd,July.2009.