Puerarin

What Is Puerarin?

Puerarin is an isoflavonoid extracted and isolated from the wild kudzu root of the legume family, which has been found to have various functional activities such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-osteoporosis, and hypoglycemic.

Pueraria lobata, the name of Chinese medicine. It is the dried root of Pueraria lobata, a leguminous plant, and is commonly known as wild kudzu. It is harvested in autumn and winter and cut into thick slices or small pieces while fresh; dried. Sweet, pungent, cool. It has the function of relieving muscle and fever, permeating rash, generating body fluid to quench thirst, and raising Yang to stop diarrhea. Commonly used in treating episodes of fever, strong pain in the collar and back, impermeable measles, fever and thirst, Yin deficiency and thirst, febrile diarrhea and dysentery, spleen deficiency and diarrhea.

Its dried tuber is long cylindrical, and the herb is mostly cut longitudinally or obliquely into thick slices of plate shape, varying in length, about 20 cm long, 5 to 10 cm in diameter, and 0.7 to 1.3 cm thick. White or light brown, the surface sometimes visible remnants of brown outer skin, rough cut, fibrous. The texture is hard and heavy, rich in powder, and contains a lot of fiber, the cross section can be seen by the fiber formed by the homocentric ring layer, longitudinal section can be seen between the fiber and powder, forming longitudinal lines. Odorless, sweet taste. The block is fat, solid, white, powdered and less fibrous; the loose, yellow, non-powdered and fibrous is inferior in quality.

Functions of Puerarin Extract

1. Pueraria Mirifica can improve myocardial oxygen metabolism and produce beneficial effects on myocardial metabolism, while dilating blood vessels, improving microcirculation, lowering vascular resistance and increasing blood flow, so it can be used to prevent and treat myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.

2. Pueraria Mirifica has a significant role in lowering blood sugar, and the flavonoids contained in Pueraria Mirifica have a hypolipidemic effect, lowering serum cholesterol, lowering oil triglycerides, used in the treatment of hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, has significant efficacy.

3. Pueraria lobata has a clear therapeutic effect on learning and memory disorders, and the alcoholic extract of Pueraria lobata can significantly counteract the memory impairment caused by Dongdu police alkali. It can be used for the treatment of senile dementia, mental retardation, poor memory and other conditions.

4. can make blood pressure easier to control, and make capillary dilation, blood viscosity decreased, microcirculation improved. It can soften and protect blood vessels, and has the effect of lowering blood lipids and cholesterol in the body.

5. Kudzu can solve the toxicity of ethanol, and can solve the rapid excretion of alcohol. It can relieve the symptoms of headache and brain, flushing after drinking. Relieves the absorption of alcohol in the stomach and protects the gastric mucosa.