Human hair consists of alpha-keratin, which is an animal protein. Silk protein also belongs to α-keratin, which has a similar structure to hair.  According to the principle of "homogeneous correspondence", silk protein molecules should be easily absorbed by hair molecules and form relatively stable chemical bonds (or hydrogen bonds) without being easily washed away by water. [...]

All Chinese people know the Silk Road in Chinese history. Most people know that silk is from China and has been carried to Europe and the United States. In modern times, it is regarded as a treasure in Japan. Nowadays, few people understand why natural silk is the oldest pride in China. Since the promotion of [...]

There are two ways of cell death: necrosis and apoptosis or programmed death. The main goal of traditional tumor therapy is to use cytotoxic drugs or radiation to cause cell death. Apoptosis is a kind of gene-mediated suicide process, which is the opposite regulatory mechanism of mitosis in cell proliferation. It is also a protective mechanism [...]

Milk thistle contains silymarin, which protects liver cell membrane and improves liver function. At present, milk thistle has become a hepatoprotective plant, which has been widely used for the treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. Many pharmacological experiments also showed that silymarin has the effects of lowering blood fat, protecting the heart muscle and [...]

In order to study the anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-anoxia and anti-fatigue effects of astragalus extract, 160 mice are randomly divided into 4 groups: the control group, the large, medium, and small dose groups of astragalus extract, which was chronically administered, and the control group was given an equal volume of saline the same way. The method of [...]

170 traditional Chinese medicines contain chlorogenic acid, all of the medicines have the therapeutic effects of clearing heat, detoxification, antibacterial and anti-inflammation. Chlorogenic acid is called “the seventh nutrient” and is widely used in health care industry. The main functions of chlorogenic acid include: Bioactivity Chlorogenic acid has a wide range of bioactivities. Many science researches [...]

Vine tea is a health tea. Vine tea has the effects of anti-inflammation, relieving cough and reducing sputum, which are similar to those of Antoine. Experiments show that vine tea has significant inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus hemolyticus, Escherichia coli, and Shigella. The inhibition of common bacteria in food is better than benzoic [...]

1 Lipid-lowering Effect 1.1 animal experiments In a hyperlipidemic obese rat model, scientists observe the effects of lotus leaf total alkaloids on body weight, body fat and blood lipids, the results show that total alkaloids of lotus leaf significantly inhibited obese rats from rising body weight, which reduced the serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG) and [...]

In recent years, depression increased year by year, due to its unique pharmacological effects, st. john’s. wort extract became one of the best-selling herbs in the world. In the past it was generally considered the main antidepressant active substances of st. john’s wort extract were hypericin and hyperin, the latest pharmacological studies have shown that the [...]

Pueraria extract is made of Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi roots, which contains a variety of active ingredients, mainly isoflavones, especially puerarin. Clinical research data show that pueraria extract has a significant prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and anti-cancer and other pharmacological effects. Cardiovascular disease and cancer are closely related to free radicals. Therefore, the scientists [...]