FDA Anti ageing Herbal Extract Powder Wild Yam Root Extract Antioxidants

Product Description

Product Introduction of Wild Yam Root Extract

Yam is the tuber of DioscoreaoppositaThunb. It is widely distributed in the hilly and shallow mountainous regions of northeast, north, central, southeast and southwest China, and many local varieties have been formed.

There are two categories of yam: medicinal and edible, with edible yam being the mainstay in the southern provinces. The medicinal yam is represented by the Huai yam grown in the northern part of Henan Province and the south-central part of Shanxi Province, which has the highest medicinal and tonic value and is therefore the main raw material for many Chinese medicines and an important tonic food.

It is sweet and flat in taste and has the ability to nourish the spleen, nourish the stomach, produce fluid and benefit the lungs, and nourish the kidneys and astringent essence. Yam is used to treat spleen deficiency, prolonged diarrhoea, lung deficiency, asthma and cough, kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea, dysmenorrhoea, frequent urination and deficiency heat and thirst. Yam is favoured as a medicinal and food plant. Generally yam extract is a white powdered solid.

Chemical Composition of Wild Yam Root Extract

Yam tubers contain diosgenin, dopamine, batatasinehydyochloride, polyphenoloxidase, allantoin and abscisin II. It also contains glucoprotein and polysaccharides with hypoglycaemic effect, mannose, glucose and galactose, trace elements, etc. The nutrients and active ingredients in yam include mucin, amino acids, allantoin, amylase, trace elements, polysaccharides, etc.

Function of Wild Yam Root Extract

1. Hypoglycaemic effect

Yam mucilage and polysaccharides can stimulate and regulate the body's immune system, lower blood sugar and strengthen the body's resistance. Studies have shown that yam has some anti-diabetic effects, probably related to increasing insulin secretion and improving the function of damaged pancreatic beta cells.

2. Anti-ageing and antioxidant effects

It was found that there was a correlation between the anti-free radical activity of yam and the content of polyphenolic components in the extracts. It was also found that yam saponin has a strong ability to scavenge hydroxyl radicals:It has a strong Fe3+ reducing ability, and the reducing ability increases with increasing concentration, but is not as strong as the reducing ability of the same concentration of vitamin C.

3. Immunomodulatory effects

The immunomodulatory effects of yam extracts are mainly related to polysaccharides.

4. Regulating the functions of the spleen and stomach

Yam is a tonic to the middle of the body and has the effect of regulating the function of the spleen and stomach. Shen Jinguan et al. found that the anti-ulcer effect of fresh yam extract may be related through improving the quality of the mucus layer and increasing serum EGF levels.

5. Antitumour and anti-mutagenic effects

The anti-mutagenic effect of active polysaccharides from yam was demonstrated to be achieved mainly by inhibiting the mutagenic effect of mutagens on the strain.

6. Lipid-lowering effect

Feeding atherosclerotic mice with yam purified starch reduced their lipid concentrations, and in mice fed free cholesterol and cholesterol containing food, yam reduced their cholesterol concentrations.

7. Other effects

In addition, studies have shown that yam has other effects such as preventing liver damage and antibacterial properties.

Application of Wild Yam Root Extract

1. Clinically, yam and its extracts are used to treat spleen deficiency, diarrhoea in infants and children, infectious diseases in children, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema, post-chemotherapy haemorrhage in tumours, etc.

2. Strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, promoting the production of body fluid and benefiting the lung, tonifying the kidney and astringent essence. Used for deficiency of the spleen and diarrhoea, deficiency of the lung and asthma, diabetes mellitus, leucorrhoea, seminal emission and urination.

3. Yam is a health product of medicinal and food origin and can be developed into yam capsule products, yam powder products, yam nutritional oral liquid, yoghurt drinks, sake, etc.