What are the health benefits of motherwort extract?

What is motherwort extract?

Motherwort extract is a natural substance extracted from the aerial part of the Labiatae plant motherwort. This extract contains a variety of active ingredients, including leonurine, stachydrine, rutin, fumaric acid, leonuridine, 4-guanidinobutanol, 4-guanidinobutyric acid, arginine, agarin, stigmasterol and sitosterol. Among them, leonurine A and leonurine B are the main ingredients. It has a variety of effects, mainly used for promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis and promoting new blood, diuresis and swelling, and clearing away heat and detoxification. In clinical practice, it can be used to treat symptoms such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, lochia, abdominal pain due to blood stasis after childbirth, edema due to nephritis, difficulty in urination, swelling and poison due to sores, and injuries due to falls.

Motherwort contains a variety of trace elements. Selenium can enhance the vitality of immune cells, alleviate the occurrence of atherosclerosis, and improve the body's defense system against diseases; manganese can resist oxidation, anti-aging, and anti-fatigue, so motherwort can improve beauty and resist aging. In addition, motherwort extract can also be used for anti-inflammatory, whitening, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, lochia, abdominal pain caused by postpartum blood stasis, edema caused by nephritis, difficulty urinating, sores, swelling and bruises.

What are the health benefits?

Blood circulation and menstruation regulation

It has a significant blood circulation and menstruation regulation effect, can contract the uterus, and enhance the contraction and tension of uterine muscles. This makes it a common medicine for treating women's menstrual and childbirth symptoms, such as amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea caused by blood stasis, as well as abdominal pain and lochia caused by postpartum stasis.

Blood stasis and newness

The blood stasis and newness effect of motherwort extract helps to treat various symptoms caused by blood stasis. It can not only promote blood circulation, but also help the uterus recover, especially in the case of postpartum hemorrhage or lochia, its uterine contraction effect can effectively stop bleeding and remove lochia.

Diuretic and swelling reduction

It can effectively promote the excretion of urine, thereby alleviating symptoms such as edema and difficulty urinating caused by water stasis. In addition, for patients with nephritis edema and hematuria, the diuretic effect of motherwort extract can also help eliminate edema, increase appetite, and help stop hematuria.

Heat-clearing and detoxifying

It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, can treat sores and swelling, and can also be used to treat skin rashes caused by damp heat in the skin. Whether it is used externally or internally, motherwort can effectively relieve various symptoms caused by heat toxins.

Improve immunity

It contains trace elements such as selenium, which can enhance the vitality of immune cells and improve the body's ability to defend against viruses and diseases.

Antibacterial and antiviral

Its various alkaloids and flavonoids have certain antibacterial effects and can inhibit the growth and reproduction of bacteria.

Anti-inflammatory and analgesic

Its active ingredients can inhibit the release of inflammatory mediators and the chemotaxis and phagocytosis of leukocytes, and have certain anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects.

Improve cardiovascular system

Motherwort also has the effect of strengthening the heart, increasing coronary flow and myocardial nutritional blood flow, and can fight experimental myocardial ischemia and arrhythmia.

Beauty and anti-aging

The ingredients it contains have antioxidant and anti-aging effects, and can regulate menstruation and remove blood stasis, so that waste in the body can be discharged as soon as possible, making the face ruddy, and playing a beauty and beauty effect.

What are the benefits for heart health?

Protect the heart

Motherwort can improve coronary circulation, protect the heart, and promote the recovery of local blood flow microcirculation disorders caused by isoproterenol.

Improve heart function

Modern research has found that motherwort contains alkaloids, glycosides, diterpenes, flavonoids, volatile oils, fatty acids, cyclic polypeptides and other ingredients, as well as copper, zinc, iron, manganese and other trace elements, which can improve microcirculation, resist myocardial ischemia, improve heart function, regulate the uterus, diuresis, improve kidney function, and resist brain.

Anti-myocardial ischemia

Motherwort contains alkaloids, glycosides, diterpenes, flavonoids, volatile oils, fatty acids, cyclic polypeptides and other ingredients, as well as copper, zinc, iron, manganese and other trace elements, which can improve microcirculation, resist myocardial ischemia, improve heart function, regulate the uterus, diuresis, improve kidney function, and resist brain.

Can it really beautify and nourish the skin?

It does have the potential to beautify and nourish the skin, but the specific effects may vary from person to person. First, it is rich in a variety of ingredients that are beneficial to skin health, such as leonurine, leonurin, polysaccharides, flavonoids, and amino acids. These ingredients have a variety of biological activities, which can effectively promote metabolism and help the skin excrete toxins, thereby improving the overall condition of the skin.

Secondly, it is also rich in a variety of antioxidant ingredients, such as flavonoids, which can effectively remove free radicals and delay skin aging. Free radicals are one of the main causes of skin aging, so using skin care products containing motherwort extract can help keep the skin young.

In addition, it also has good sedative and anti-inflammatory effects, which can effectively relieve skin inflammation and reduce redness, swelling, and itching. This is especially important for people with sensitive skin. Sensitive skin is easily stimulated by external irritation, leading to skin problems, and this extract can help soothe the skin and reduce the occurrence of these problems.

It also has a good moisturizing effect, which can help the skin lock in moisture and keep it moist. Dry skin is prone to fine lines and wrinkles, and using skin care products containing motherwort extract can help retain the skin's moisture, thereby reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

How does its immune-enhancing effect manifest?

Polysaccharide and diterpene ingredients: Motherwort contains a variety of active ingredients, such as polysaccharides and diterpenes, which can improve and enhance lymphatic circulation through cellular immunity and humoral immunity, thereby improving the normal immune function of the body. These ingredients can promote the activity of lymphocytes in the body, thereby enhancing the body's immune ability.

Influence on immune-active cells: Motherwort can affect the function of immune-active cells, especially T cells. After being stimulated by antigens or mitogens, cells will differentiate, proliferate and transform into sensitized lymphocytes and produce specific immune responses1. The active ingredients in motherwort can induce and promote this process, thereby enhancing cellular immune function.

Substances that improve immunity: Motherwort contains a variety of substances that are beneficial to the human immune system, such as polysaccharides, flavonoids, sterols, etc. These substances can improve the body's immunity, enhance the body's resistance, and prevent diseases such as colds and influenza.

In what fields can it be used?

Health food and cosmetics

In the field of health food and cosmetics, it may be added to related products to enhance the beauty effect because of its ability to improve skin blood circulation.

Food additives

As a food additive, it may be used in certain foods to provide additional health benefits or improve product characteristics.

Medicine

Motherwort extract is widely used in the field of gynecology and is often used to treat problems such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, lochia, and abdominal pain caused by postpartum blood stasis. It can improve these symptoms by promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis and promoting new blood. It also has a diuretic and detumescent effect, and can be used to treat edema and urinary difficulty caused by nephritis. It can help eliminate excess water in the body and has a certain effect on relieving related symptoms.

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