Bidens pilosa herb health benefit
Bidens pilosa is an annual plant from tropical America
with anti-inflammatory properties and traditionally used in the treatment of
hepatitis, laryngitis,
headache and digestive disorders. This plant has a high concentration of
flavonoids with potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory capacities.
Bidens pilosa is well known in Taiwan as a traditional Chinese
medicine.
Bidens pilosa (L.) (Asteraceae) is a medicinal plant traditionally
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Bidens pilosa health benefit
Preliminary lab and animal studies indicate:
Bidens pilosa herb can dilate blood vessels and can lower blood pressure.
Bidens pilosa herb can lower blood sugar.
Bidens pilosa is used in the traditional
management chronic gastro-duodenal ulcers but animal research has not found this
herb to decrease stomach acid or heal such wounds.
Bidens pilosa L. var. minor (Blume) Sherff maybe helpful in treating leukemia.
Bidens pilosa may lower fever.
Bidens pilosa may have anti-cancer potential.
Bidens pilosa has a protective and therapeutic effect on liver injury, which
might be associated with its antioxidant properties and inhibition of NF-kappaB
activation.
Composition of bidens pilosa
Bidens pilosa aerial parts have polyacetylenic glucosides, such as cytopiloyne,
that can help lower blood sugar. Flavonoids include methylhoslundin, centaurein
and centaureidin.
Bidens species
Bidens alba has been used for healing cuts, injuries, swellings, hypertension,
jaundice, and diabetes in some countries.
Bidens bipinnata aerial parts have a flavanone glucoside, bidenoside F, and a
chalcone glucoside, bidenoside G, along with iso-okanin 7-O-(4'',6''-diacetyl)-beta-D-glucopyranoside.
Bidens bipinnata L. is well known in China as a traditional Chinese medicine.
Bidens frondosa
Bidens odorata Cav. aerial parts are used in Mexican folk medicine to treat
kidney disorders. Extracts from bidens odorata have a diuretic effect.
Bidens parviflora has neolignan glucosides called bidenlignasides.
Bidens pilosa
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