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 used in Brazil for treating conditions that can be related to cancer. For information on medicinal herbs found in the Amazon.

Bidens pilosa health benefit
Preliminary lab and animal studies indicate:

Bidens pilosa herb can dilate blood vessels and can lower blood pressure.
B 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.
B pilosa may lower fever.
Bidens pilosa may have anti-cancer potential.
B pilosa has a protective and therapeutic effect on liver injury, which might be associated with its antioxidant properties and inhibition of NF-kappaB activation.

Bidens pilosa and blood sugar
Anti-hyperglycemic effects and mechanism of Bidens pilosa water extract.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2008 Dec 30. Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, ROC; Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC.
Bidens pilosa has traditionally been used as an anti-diabetic  herbal medicine. This study aimed to evaluate the effect and action of Bidens pilosa water extract on type 2 diabetes. A daily dose of Bidens pilosa water extract or glimepiride, a positive control, was given orally to mice once or for 28 days. Levels of blood glucose, serum insulin, and glycosylated hemoglobulin A1C, glucose tolerance, and islet structure were used to evaluate its anti-diabetic effects. Rat pancreatic islets and streptozocin-treated mice were tested for insulin-releasing mechanism of Bidens pilosa water extract. A daily dose of Bidens pilosa water extract given once or for 28 days significantly decreased blood glucose levels and increased serum insulin levels. Besides, 28-day treatment with Bidens pilosa water extract significantly improved glucose tolerance, decreased HbA1C levels and protected islet structure. Mechanism study showed that Bidens pilosa water extract stimulated insulin secretion via pancreatic islets. Our results suggest that Bidens pilosa water extract ameliorates type 2 diabetes in db/db mice via regulation of insulin secretion and islet protection.

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.
B 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
B 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.
B pilosa

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