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Plant Extracts
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USP,In-house Standards,
Cistanche is a worldwide genus of holoparasitic desert plants which obtain nutrients and water from the host plants. Cistanche has been used as a medicine for about 1800 years and is recorded in the Shennong Bencao Jing and Ben Cao Gangmu as a tonic. The members of Cistanche include Cistanche deserticola, Cistanche tubulosa, Cistanche salsa, Cistanche sinesis, and Cistanche ambigua ect.