1. Effects on bone and cartilage

Animal studies have found that cuscuta powder can effectively increase bone density and promote hyaline cartilage repair. Osteoblasts were cultured externally with cuscuta extract, which can increase the matrix calcium of osteoblasts, promote proliferation and increase the activity of alkaline phosphatase, and at the same time inhibit the survival rate of osteoclasts and induce their apoptosis.

2. Has a certain anti-cancer ability

Studies have found that cuscuta has a certain ability to inhibit cancer cells and can reduce the incidence of cancer. Domestic studies have shown that the three concentrations of cuscuta alcohol extract, 10, 50, and 100 mg/L, can inhibit the division and proliferation of human gastric cancer cells cultured in vitro, and the concentration of 100 mg/L has the best effect.

3. Lower blood lipids and blood sugar

After the cuscuta polysaccharide was administered to diabetic model mice, the blood sugar level decreased significantly, the body weight increased, and the content of liver glycogen also increased, indicating that it has an anti-diabetic effect.

4. Anti-aging and antioxidant

The polysaccharides in cuscuta also have anti-aging and brain tissue protection effects.

5. Improve immunity

An appropriate amount of cuscuta can effectively enhance the body's immunity by increasing the wet weight of the immune organs of the thymus and spleen, enhancing the phagocytic function of peritoneal macrophages, promoting the proliferation of spleen lymphocytes, and inducing the production of interleukins.

6. Hepatoprotective effect

When using cuscuta water decoction to model mice with chronic liver injury, it was found that glutamate aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase in serum were significantly decreased, while SOD was increased. At the same time, the liver tissue of mice was damaged. The situation improved significantly, reflecting the liver protection effect. It shows that a certain dose of cuscuta polysaccharide in vitro culture of rat liver stem cells has the effect of improving activity and cell proliferation, thereby protecting liver stem cells.

7. Has a certain eye-brightening effect

Cuscuta can reduce the degree of lens opacity, delay and treat galactose cataract, and have no adverse effect on growth and development. cuscuta seed water decoction can basically restore the activities of aldose reductase, polyol dehydrogenase, hexokinase, catalase, etc. in the cataract lens to normal.

8. Help the heart

Cuscuta can "invigorate people's defense qi and help people's heart." brain power;

9. Anti-cerebral ischemia

Cuscuta water extract has anti-cerebral ischemia effect.

10. Invigorating the kidneys

Cuscuta is sweet and can nourish deficiency, warm to help yang, enter the kidney meridian, invigorate kidney yang and kidney qi to consolidate essence and strengthen yang, improve sexual performance and improve reproductive endocrine; enter the spleen meridian, the spleen and stomach are both external and internal, and can nourish the spleen and stomach weak and invigorate. prevent miscarriage.

11. Can make up for deficiencies and strengthen the body

Cuscuta can nourish the weak and insufficiency of the body and achieve the effect of strengthening the body. Righteousness is closely related to the kidney and spleen, and righteousness is related to immunity, so the kidney and spleen are closely related to immunity.