Cistanche is a well-known tonic in Chinese medicine. It has the effects of tonifying kidney yang, nourishing essence and blood, and moistening bowels. It is traditionally used for deficiency of kidney yang, deficiency of essence and blood, impotence, and infertility, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, weakness of muscles and bones, and intestinal dryness and constipation. The most frequently used medicines for tonifying kidney yang. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that Cistanche has many functions such as improving sexual function, anti-aging, learning and memory ability, anti-senile dementia and Parkinson's disease, anti-fatigue, liver protection, and laxative. It is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine clinical prescriptions, Chinese medicine It is one of the precious Chinese herbal medicines in northwest China and is known as "desert ginseng".

There are 4 species and 1 variety of Cistanche in China, including Cistanche deserticola Y.C. Ma, Cistanche C.tubulosa (Schenk) R.Wight, C.salsa (C.A.Mey.) G.Beck, Cistanche Baihuayan Cistanche C.salsa var. albiffora P.F.Tu etZ.C.Lou, and Cistanche C.sinensis G.Beck are distributed in the desert and desert areas of northwest China, and their hosts are the famous sand control and sand-fixing plants Haloxylon and Tamarix (used to be called red willow), salt claw, red sand, pearl firewood, etc.

Cistanche deserticola, Cistanche deserticola Y.C.Ma, and Cistanche deserticola C.tubulosa (Schenk) R.Wight are the dried fleshy stems of Cistanche deserticola Y.C.Ma and C.tubulosa (Schenk) R.Wight in the 2010 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.

Due to the parasitic nature of Cistanche, its natural reproductive capacity is fragile, coupled with a large number of unreasonable excavations, the wild resources of this genus are on the verge of depletion, and the desert Cistanche has been included in the "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora". "Appendix II and Chinese Protected Plants. With the improvement of people's living standards and the strengthening of health awareness in our country, the demand for Cistanche deserticola has grown rapidly, and wild resources have been unable to meet the market demand. The development of large-scale cultivation of Cistanche deserticola is a solution to solving the problem of Cistanche resources, meeting clinical drug use, and the sustainable development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry—the only way.

Cistanche is one of the original plants of traditional Chinese medicine Cistanche, distributed in the Taklimakan Desert and its surrounding areas in southern Xinjiang, is parasitic on the roots of the genus Tamarix. It is also the easiest species to develop for large-scale cultivation.

In order to solve the resource problem of Cistanche Cistanche, promote desert governance, economic development in ethnic areas, and poverty alleviation and prosperity of farmers and herdsmen, WECISTANCHE established a large-scale artificial planting of Cistanche Cistanche and its host Tamarix based on the research results of more than 20 years and the long-term accumulation of experience in large-scale artificial cultivation of Cistanche Cistanche This website systematically introduces the artificial planting technology of Cistanche Cistanche and its host Tamarix, as well as the harvesting and processing technology of Cistanche Cistanche, to promote local economic development, farmers and herdsmen to become rich, ecological civilization and national harmony.