CYNOMORII Cynomorium Herb
LATIN NAME: Cynomorium songaricum
COMMON NAME: Maltese Mushroom
The maltese mushroom is the strange, red club of the salt flats, rising from the sand like a figure from another world. The strange, fleshy, parasitic plant sends up the upright, club-shaped, dark-red to purple-brown stems from the sand, bearing the dense, scale-like heads through the spring, and the thick stems have a very long record in the old practice of the East. The plant is a fine, curious presence of the desert garden and the study border. It is a plant of the open, sunny, very well-drained ground, growing at the foot of the host shrub.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The maltese mushroom is a strange subject of the plant science, and the red clubs keep showing up in the work on the parasitic plants. The way the plant feeds on the roots of the desert shrubs has been studied closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the holoparasites, the desert medicines and the members of the cynomorium family. The dense, scale-like heads and the strange, fleshy habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the maltese mushroom is a regular subject of the work on the red parasites of the dry world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The maltese mushroom is a strange and valuable plant of the desert edge. The upright, club-shaped, dark-red stems rise from the sand at the foot of the host shrub, one of the curious sights of the salt flats, and the thick stems have a very long record in the old practice of the East as a tonic and a tea. The plant is one of the great wild medicines of the desert, and the wild stands are best left to the care of the conservation work, with the plant grown under the careful hand of the growers. It has been written up in the botanical and the conservation papers for the red clubs and the very long record of use, and it is a fine, curious plant of the open, sunny, very well-drained garden.
The maltese mushroom is one of the red parasites of the salt flats, and the club-shaped stems rise from the sand at the foot of the host shrub. The wild stands are best left to the conservation work.
To grow the maltese mushroom from seed, sow the small, dark seeds at the foot of a host plant, in pots of moist, free-draining soil, keep the pots in a warm, bright spot and water gently. The seedlings come through within a few weeks and grow on very slowly. With the sun, the warmth and the very well-drained ground, the red clubs will rise in a few seasons.
Common name: Cynomorium coccineum
Cynomorium is used for impotence in men and lack of libido in women due to deficiency of Kidney Yang energy.
Applications and Properties:
Applications:
Function and Indication: Nourish kidney yang, replenish vital essence and blood, moisten the bowels to relieve constipation. Indicated for lassitude in loin and knee, impotence and seminal emission, dry intestine and constipation.
Invigorate the kidney and supplement essence.
Moisturize the intestine and relax the bowels.
Action: to reinforce the kidney yang, to replenish vital essence and blood, and to relax bowels.
Premature ejaculation.Urinary problems.Infertile.Weak.Kidney weak and ejacution,dysfunction.
Cardiac effects.Gastric ulcer.Hypoxia endurance.
Dyspepsia,Leucorrhea,stomach acid treatment.
Safety and Toxicity:
Generally safe when properly suggested,Blurred vision is a potential side effect from high dose Cynomorium songaricum;Cynomorium is not well suited to people who are severely Yin deficient since it is primarily a Yang herb. Also, it is not well suited to people who are suffering either chronically or acutely from diarrhea since it tends to loosen stool.