Astragalus Extract Benefits

Posted by agingwise on January 5th, 2016

Astragalus is the dry root of Mongolia Astragalus or Astragalus membranaceus. Astragalus is tepid，sweet, with efficiency of solid table sweating, water swelling, sore myogenic care. Modern analysis found that there are a variety of active ingredients， such as glycosides, flavone, polysaccharides, oxy acid, linoleic acid, alkaloids and choline.

Astragalus extract has a variety of benefits, such as improving heart, immune regulation, metabolism, anti-aging, anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, analgesic, sedative and other effects. Among them, the most important active ingredients and astragalus telomeres benefits are:

Improve heart - Astragalus saponin

Can improve heart function, increase cardiac contractility, and reduce the heart's workload, reducing myocardial apoptosis, stable cell membrane, stable blood pressure.

Immunomodulators - Astragalus polysaccharide

Regulate immunity, enhance cellular immunity and humoral immunity, enhance the physiological metabolic capacity of cells, increase DNA, RNA and protein levels of splenic organ.

Anti-aging - Astragalosides and Cycloastragenol Compound

Astragaloside and Cycloastragenol Compound are extracted from astragalus, they have magic benefits of anti-aging. They could activate telomerase in cells that is in a dormant state, extend the telomeres that is shortening with the age's growing, enhance cell renewal capacity, ease cells attenuated, thus delaying the human aging!