Asparagus Root Extract:Modern Health Applications of Traditional Herbal Medicine

Asparagus is growth in the wild forest edge of the dank, hilly undergrowth or hillside grass. Generally in the autumn, winter mining, washing, remove fibrous roots, boiling water boiling boiling boiling boiling or steaming through the heart, take the heat to remove the skin, washing, drying reserve.

Asparagus Root Extract is sourced from the plant Asparagus. The newly formed shoots (spears), root, and "underground stems" (rhizomes) are used to make medicine. The shoots are also used as a food source.

It is rich in protein, fat and a variety of active ingredients, which can regulate the body's metabolism. Used in natural green functional health products and other products.

In foods, asparagus spears are eaten as a vegetable. The seed and wild asparagus root extract are used in alcoholic beverages.

Specification of Asparagus root extract:

Health benefits of Asparagus root extract:

•  Maintains Homocysteine Level

Asparagus root extract is rich in B vitamins that help in maintaining healthy levels of homocysteine, which is produced in the blood when an amino acid (methionine) breaks down in the body. Vitamin B, especially folate, B6, and B12 play a key role in converting homocysteine into cysteine, which then gets converted back to methionine as per the normal methylation cycle.

• May Reduces Blood Pressure

Asparagus is a common vegetable, long used as herbal medicine. It is effective in eradicating a plethora of health-related problems. According to a study in the Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, the bottom-stem consumption of asparagus significantly reduced the subjects’ systolic and diastolic blood pressure. This result supports the possibility that asparagus cladophylls and bottom-stems differentially improve hypertension and hyperglycemia.

• May have Anti-oxidation and anti-aging effect

It has the activity of scavenging free radicals and anti - lipid peroxidation.

• May relieving cough and removing phlegm.

It is a common Chinese medicine, which has the effect of nourishing Yin, moistening dryness, clearing fire and relieving cough.