Benefits of Plantain Extract
What is Plantain Extract?
Plantain extract is mainly made of the dried mature seeds of Plantago and Plantain, which are active ingredients obtained through modern extraction technology. These ingredients include flavonoids and their glycosides, cyclopentane and their glycosides, triterpenes and their steroids, polysaccharides, and oleic acid, linoleic acid and other active ingredients.
Plantain, also known as Dangdao, Niu Tongue Cai, Xia Ma Yi, etc., is a common Chinese herbal medicine with multiple pharmacological effects. This extract is usually a brown-yellow powder, and the active ingredients can be dissolved in methanol, ethanol and acetone.
What functions does it have?
Antioxidant
Total flavonoids of plantain can effectively remove free radicals, inhibit the peroxidation process of liposomes, and achieve antioxidant effects.
Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
It has an inhibitory effect on a variety of bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, and can be used to prevent and treat infectious diseases.
Enhance immunity
Plantago polysaccharides can significantly enhance the delayed-type hypersensitivity of immunosuppressed mice, increase the level of hemolysin in their serum, and play a role in enhancing immunity.
Protect liver
Oleanolic acid in plantain can significantly reduce the level of alanine aminotransferase in experimental liver injury animals, reduce the degeneration and necrosis of liver cells, as well as the inflammatory response and fibrosis of liver tissue, accelerate liver cell regeneration, and promote the repair of necrotic tissue.
Protect kidney
Total flavonoids of plantain have an inhibitory effect on the formation of calcium oxalate stones in the kidney, and its mechanism of action may be related to anti-oxidative stress and inhibition of osteopontin expression.
Lowering serum uric acid
Reduces serum creatinine and uric acid levels in rats, and downregulates the expression of renal uric acid transporter murat1 and mRNA, thereby playing a role in lowering serum uric acid.
Diuretic and dampness-removing
It has a significant diuretic effect and can be used to treat symptoms such as edema, oliguria, and painful stranguria caused by heat.
Heat-clearing and detoxifying
It can remove heat toxins from the body and relieve symptoms such as summer-heat diarrhea, red and swollen eyes, etc.
Expectorant and cough-relieving
Ingredients such as psyllium in plantain can promote the secretion of tracheal and bronchial mucus, dilute sputum, and thus achieve the effect of expectorant and cough-relieving.
Anti-inflammatory mechanism of plantain extract
It contains a variety of active ingredients with anti-inflammatory effects. For example, flavonoids and their glycosides, cyclopentane terpenes and their glycosides, triterpenes and their steroids, etc. These ingredients may exert anti-inflammatory effects by intervening in inflammation-related cell signaling pathways. The polysaccharide compounds it contains have antioxidant and immune-enhancing effects, and inflammation is closely related to oxidative stress and immune regulation, which indirectly affects the inflammatory response by regulating these aspects.
Studies have shown that it may inhibit the release of certain inflammatory mediators. In the inflammatory response, inflammatory mediators such as histamine and prostaglandins will promote the development of inflammation, and their release may be reduced to reduce the inflammatory response. However, which specific ingredients play a role in which inflammatory mediators, more in-depth research is needed.
It has the effect of resisting pathogenic microorganisms, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonella typhi. Infections with pathogens such as bacteria often cause inflammation. By inhibiting these pathogenic microorganisms, the causes of inflammation can be reduced, thereby achieving an anti-inflammatory effect.
Application fields of plantain extract
Health care products
Plantaginaceae extract is used as a beverage food additive, which has the effects of diuresis, heat-clearing and detoxification, and is suitable for health care treatment of symptoms such as edema and urinary tract infection.
Agricultural field
In animal husbandry, plantain extract can be used to improve animal growth performance, production performance and immunity. At the same time, it can also be used to prevent and treat bacterial and viral diseases of livestock, poultry and aquatic products.
Medical field
Plantain extract is widely used to treat symptoms such as edema, urinary tract infection, cough, etc. It has the effects of clearing heat and diuresis, expectorant, cooling blood and detoxification, and is often used to treat edema, oliguria, hot stranguria, summer heat and dampness diarrhea and other diseases. Plantain extract can also be used to regulate gastric juice secretion, has a bidirectional regulatory effect, and has an inhibitory effect on gastric juice secretion.
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