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COMMON NAME: Cistanche
LATIN NAME: Cistanche Deserticola
CHINESE NAME: Rou Cong Rong
ORIGIN: China
HABITAT: The Cistanche genus occupies deserts, semi-deserts, as well as steppe regions of Asia, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. The main consumers of the plant are people from Japan, China and many countries of Southeast Asia.
The plant prefers to grow on salt marshes, limestone, clay, less often chalky soils, in semi-deserts and steppes, at the heights from 225 to 1150 m above sea level. This plant parasitizes on many species of Chenopodiaceae family.
BOTANICAL INFORMATION: Cistanche is a genus of plants of Orobanchaceae Vent family, of the order Tubiflorae, growing in semi-deserts and steppes. There are 27 species in the genus. Almost all species have an important and beneficial chemical composition.
Representatives of the genus Cistanche are perennials up to 40 cm in height, parasitizing on the roots of bushes and shrubs of steppes, semi-deserts and deserts. Cistanche has no root system and does not produce chlorophyll. The plant takes all nutrients and water for vegetation from the roots of the host plant. The stem (stolon) of Cistanche is thick, up to 10 cm in diameter, covered with oblong-lanceolate scales. Flowering begins in spring, somewhere in March. Fruits ripen in June-August. This plant parasitizes on the representatives of the Chenopodioideaesub family. Cistanche Deserticola propagates by seeds.
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION:
The chemical composition of the plant is quite beneficial. Cistanche Deserticola contains carbohydrates, organic acids, iridoids (cisgachlorin, cystanine), sterols (p-glucoside p-sitosterol, p-sitosterol), phenols, and their derivatives, phenylethanoid glycosides (cystanosides, acteosides, dicofeylactinosides, salidrosides, acetosides), lignans (syringin, lyriodendrin), a significant amount of flavonoids, and oligosaccharides.
INTERESTING FACTS:
The first references about Cistanche were found in ancient written sources (the Canon of Herbism of the Sacred Farmer (ShennongBencaoJing, dated 100 AD).
Today, Kazakhstan is one of the main suppliers of this plant in the world.
Even the country's first workshop for the processing of Cistanche was built. Here, hundreds of tons of dried raw materials are processed annually.
In Japan, Сistanche is an active component of many cosmetics for face care and body skin (creams, tonics, masks).
The active substances of Rou Cong Rong are able to take care of hair health, strengthen their roots, and give them shiny, healthy look. Cistanche extract is present in many anti hair loss shampoos and hair conditioners.
*Be sure to follow relevant directions on product labels and consult with your pharmacist or physician or other healthcare professional before using.
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