Can Artemisia capillaris lower blood sugar?

Nowadays, our living standards are constantly improving, but our health quality is constantly declining. Unscientific diet poses a potential threat to our body and requires our attention. Improper diet causes a high incidence of hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia, and if not properly controlled, other complications may even occur. Artemisia capillaris has certain medicinal value and can relieve high blood sugar. Let's see if Artemisia capillaris can lower blood sugar.

Artemisia capillaris is a fragrant herb with great medicinal value. It can lower people's blood sugar and blood lipids, has a certain control effect on inflammation, and can promote the secretion of bile. It has a certain protective effect on liver diseases and can alleviate the deterioration of lesions. It is a rare treasure.

Can Artemisia capillaris lower blood sugar? Artemisia capillaris has many pharmacological effects:

1) Choleretic effect: The decoction, water extract, water extract without volatile oil, volatile oil, alcohol extract, 6,7-dimethoxycoumarin, chlorogenic acid, etc. of this product can promote bile secretion and have choleretic effect. Capillariformis, capillariformis diacetyl, and capillariformis lactone also have the effect of promoting bile secretion and excretion.

(2) Effect on the liver: Rats with liver damage caused by carbon tetrachloride were given 0.61 g of Artemisia capillaris decoction subcutaneously every day. Histological examination was performed on the 8th day. It was found that the swelling, ballooning, fatty degeneration and necrosis of liver cells in the treated group were alleviated to varying degrees compared with those in the control group; the glycogen and RNA contents of liver cells recovered or approached normal, and the serum alanine aminotransferase activity decreased significantly, indicating that it still has a certain liver protective effect. Certain flavonoids and coumarins in Artemisia capillaris have anti-cytotoxic effects on rat hepatocytes induced by carbon tetrachloride or galactose.

(3) The antipyretic effect experiment showed that the aqueous suspension of Capillarin had a significant effect on lowering the normal body temperature of mice and rats.

(4) Experiments on lowering blood lipids, dilating coronary arteries and promoting fibrinolysis have shown that Artemisia capillaris has a certain anti-atherosclerotic effect.

(5) Antihypertensive effect: The water extract, volatile oil and 6,7-dimethoxycoumarin of Artemisia capillaris all have antihypertensive effects.

(6) Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects In vitro tests have shown that Artemisia capillaris decoction has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Bacillus anthracis, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphi A, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella dysenteriae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Bacillus subtilis.

The above content is an introduction to whether Artemisia Capillaris can lower blood sugar. I hope it can be of some help to you. In addition to the above-mentioned effects, Artemisia capillaris also has a certain preventive effect on liver cancer. It can inhibit the mutation of liver cells to a certain extent and also plays an important role in enhancing the body's resistance.