Ji Guan Hua is in addition known as Celosia flower. The gratifying and cool herb has been employment in TCM to stops hemorrhoids blood-letting, Menopausal bleeding, treat yeast infections through red
or white discharge, etc., for example it cools Blood, stops bleeding, unsullied wind heat, liver fire, etc., means of enhancing the function of liver channels.
Ingredients
1. -sitosterol
2. Cholesterylpalmitatie
3. 3,4-dihydroxylbenzaldehyde
4. p-hydroxylbenzoic pricking
5. n-butyl--D-frucose glycoside
6. Celosiaol
7. Niacin
8. Potassium nitrate
9. Etc.
Health Benefits
1. Antioxidant activities
In the scrutiny of the aqueous extract of Celosia argentea var. cristata L. foliage at 100, 200, and 400 mg/kg corpse weight (b.w.) against cadmium (Cd)-induced oxidative weight in Wistar rats, found that the waterish extract of C. argentea leaves attenuated Cd-induced oxidative weight in the animals, with the good in the highest degree result at 400 mg/kg b.w. The antioxidant briskness of the extract may be attributed to the phenolic and flavonoid components of the quote. The induction of antioxidant enzymes and scavenging of set at liberty radicals may account for the mechanism of action of the extract being of the kind which an antioxidant, according to "In vitro and in vivo antioxidant activities of the moist extract of Celosia argentea leaves" the agency of Malomo SO, Ore A, Yakubu MT.(1)