Let’s talk about the benefits of eating burdock.

Main effects

Burdock has the effects of treating diabetes, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and anti-cancer. It can lower blood sugar, blood pressure, blood lipids, treat insomnia, and improve human immunity.

Antibacterial effect

The whole plant of burdock contains antibacterial ingredients, among which the leaves contain the most antibacterial ingredients and are mainly resistant to Staphylococcus aureus.

Hyperglycemic effect

Burdock water extract can significantly and permanently reduce blood sugar in rats and increase carbohydrate tolerance.

Anti-aging and scavenging oxygen free radicals

During the normal metabolic process of human life, a substance harmful to health and promoting cell aging - oxygen free radicals will be produced . They can promote the production and accumulation of lipofuscin pigment - age spots. The appearance of age spots on the body surface indicates that the cells in the body have entered the aging stage. Beef root contains peroxidase, which can enhance the vitality of the cellular immune mechanism, remove oxygen free radicals in the body, prevent the generation and accumulation of lipofuscin pigments in the body, resist aging, and provide the body with the ability to fight and remove oxygen free radicals. Basic internal protective environment.

Anti-cancer effect

Arctium picrin can inhibit the activity of phosphofructosylase in cancer cells. Arctigenin also has anti-cancer activity. At the same time, arctiin also has anti-aging properties. Dementia effect. Modern scientific research results believe that burdock contains flavonoid glycosides, which have certain resistance to malignant tumors. Its crude extract is selectively toxic and can inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells in low amounts and make tumor cells approach normal cells.

Other effects

Arctium glycosides and arctiol have anti-nephritis activity and can effectively treat acute progressive nephritis and chronic glomerulonephritis and serve as therapeutic agents for kidney disease. Lignans, the main component of burdock, can inhibit the binding of platelet activating factor to platelets and can be used as a platelet activating factor antagonist.