Kudzu Extract

Botanical name: Pueraria lobata
Source: The root of Legume Pueraria lobata Ge (Willd.) Ohwi and P.thunbergiana Benth.
Active ingredients: Isoflavones and isoflavone glycosides; triterpenoids
Appearance: Yellow brown fine powder

English name： Puerarin

Anothername:8-(β-D-Glucopyranosyl-7-hydroxy-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one

CAS number： 3681-99-0

Molecular formula： C₂₁H₂₀O₉

Molar mass： 416.38

Structure 

Pueraria is a genus of 15–20 species of plants native to Asia. Pueraria flower is used in traditional Chinese medicine to reduce reactions to alcohol consumption, and is undergoing scientific study for that use.

The genus is polyphyletic, with different species being related to species in Glycine (which includes soybean), Amphicarpaea, Nogra, Teyleria, Neonotonia, Pseudovigna, Pseudeminia, Pachyrhizus (which includes Jícama), and other genera of the tribe Phaseoleae.

Main function:
With the microcirculation, dilation of blood vessels, increase coronary blood flow, lower blood pressure, slowing heart rate and reduce myocardial consumption with no significant negative inotropic effect and antiarrhythmic effects. Also has anti-thrombosis, increase high-density lipoprotein, anti-vascular spasm and reduce the role of platelet aggregation, etc., clinical primarily for the treatment of alcoholism, retinal artery and vein obstruction, sudden deafness, myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris , hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other diseases.
1、Anti-fatigue and improving cardio-cerebral vascular blood flow can make coronary and cerebral blood vessels to dilate, increasing blood flow and reduce vascular resistance and myocardial oxygen consumption, increase the blood oxygen supply, suppression due to lack of oxygen caused by myocardial produce lactic acid, so as to achieve anti-fatigue effect.
2. To improve the vascular microcirculation.
3. Lower blood pressure, and high blood pressure caused by headache, dizziness, strong neck pain, angina pectoris and early sudden deafness have a good mitigation.
4. Hypolipidemic.
5. Antiarrhythmic.
6. TCM Sun solution that can be hunger, Touzhen diarrhea, Chufan thirst quencher, and so on, can cure typhoid fever, headache, hot and humid, Fanre Diabetes, diarrhea, high blood pressure, angina, deafness, arthritis,. arthralgia , Oue, and urine red astringent.

Dosages suggested by the 1985 Chinese Pharmacopoeia for the kudzu root are to take 9-15 grams daily during treatment. Doses of the kudzu standardized root tablets at 10 mg of weight per tablet, which is equal to about 1.5 grams of the crude root are used widely in the treatment of angina pectoris in patients. The equivalent dosage can be said to be about 30-120 mg of the root extract taken 2 - 3 times daily.

At the dosages recommended here, there have been no reports of kudzu toxicity in humans.