Monday, July 30, 2012

Chinese Herbs In Western View - Sang Shen (Fructus Mori) Health Benefits and Side Effects

Sang Shen is likewise known as Mulberry Fruit. The grateful, sour and cold herb has been used in TCM to feast vertigo, tinnitus, insomnia with palpitation, assailable digestion, premature white hair, thirst, diabetes through heat, diarrhea, etc., as it nourishes Yin, tonifies Blood, promotes formation of Body Fluid, moistens the Intestines, etc. the agency of enhancing the functions of heart, liver and kidney channels.

Ingredients
1. Resveratrol
2. Anthocyanosides
3. Carotene
4. Thiamine
5. Ribflavin
6. Vtamin C
7. Vannin
8. Linoleic acid
9. Stearic acid
10. Etc.

Health Benefits
1. Immunoregulation
In the study to search out the immunomodulating activity of MF without ceasing the expression of nitric oxide (NO), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), co-stimulatory molecules and besides interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) in macrophages and splenocytes, showed that MF could significantly actuate the phosphorylation of signal molecules of MAPKs and the vitiation of IkappaBalpha which finally led to the activation and nuclear translocation of nuclear determining element-kappaB (NF-kappaB) for the target gene expression. All those notions disclosed that the aqueous extract MF is a new TLR4 activator, which induces a Th1 immune response at the same time that a consequence of induction of cytokines secretion, especially TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma(1).

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