Can drinking Jiaogulan soaked in water really lower blood lipids?

Most people must be familiar with Gynostemma pentaphyllum. This is a very common Chinese medicine. The main effect of Gynostemma pentaphyllum is to lower blood pressure. It has a very good effect on many elderly diseases. Drinking Gynostemma pentaphyllum in water or boiling it in water can dissolve blood viscosity and adjust the lower power. It can help us treat various vascular diseases. So can drinking Gynostemma pentaphyllum in water lower blood lipids? What other effects does Gynostemma pentaphyllum have?

Diseases are difficult to predict, so after the disease occurs, it must be treated in time, so that it will be of great help to improve the disease. The most common way to treat diseases is drug treatment. This treatment method can improve the patient's disease very well, and through this treatment method, the disease will not continue to develop. What are the effects of drinking Jiaogulan soaked in water?

There are many aspects to the benefits of drinking Gynostemma pentaphyllum soaked in water, so before choosing it, you must have a comprehensive understanding to avoid side effects during use and cause certain damage to human health. These are also things that need attention.

The effect of drinking Jiaogulan

1. Lowering blood lipids

Gynostemma pentaphyllum has the effects of significantly lowering cholesterol (TCH), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), increasing high-density lipoprotein (HDL), protecting the vascular lining cells, preventing lipid deposition in the blood vessel wall, and resisting arteriosclerosis.

Jiaogulan has a significant effect on lowering cholesterol (TCH)

2. Regulate blood pressure and prevent thrombosis

Gynostemma pentaphyllum has the obvious function of reducing blood viscosity and adjusting blood pressure. It can also prevent the formation of microthrombi and increase the tolerance of myocardial cells to hypoxia, thus playing a role in protecting the myocardium. Thrombosis is caused by a variety of factors. Both in vivo and in vitro experiments have shown that Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract has good disintegration or inhibition functions on thrombi formed by a variety of factors, indicating that Gynostemma pentaphyllum is an anti-thrombotic drug with multiple functions such as inhibiting platelet function, coagulation function and red blood cell aggregation.

3. Prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases

Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract has a significant protective effect on experimental myocardial infarction: it can reduce the scope of myocardial infarction, inhibit the increase of free fatty acids (FFA) after myocardial infarction, reduce the content of malondialdehyde (MDA), protect the activity of myocardial SOD and creatine phosphokinase (CPK), and correct the metabolic disorder of FFA during myocardial ischemia. Therefore, it has a good protective effect on myocardial ischemia and ischemia-reperfusion injury. Gynostemma pentaphyllum's lipid metabolism regulation and antioxidant effects are beneficial to the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis. Clinical trials have also demonstrated the good effect of Gynostemma pentaphyllum in treating coronary heart disease.

4. Regulate blood sugar

Gynostemma pentaphyllum can protect the adrenal glands, thymus and endocrine organs, and maintain the normal function of the endocrine system. It is precisely because of this effect of Gynostemma pentaphyllum that it has the effect of lowering blood sugar and improving sugar metabolism.

5. Promote sleep

Gynostemma pentaphyllum can regulate the balance of excitation and inhibition of the cerebral cortex, has a bidirectional regulatory effect on the central nervous system, and has the effects of calming, hypnotizing, resisting tension, relieving fatigue, and enhancing memory.

6. Anti-aging

Gynostemma pentaphyllum can prolong the number of cell reproduction and generation, increase the number of human skin cell regeneration from 22 generations to 27 generations, prolong cell lifespan by 22.7%, and increase superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and endurance. It inhibits the formation of lipofuscin (a substance that causes human aging) and has the effects of darkening hair, promoting hair growth, and beautifying the skin.

7. Anti-cancer

Pharmacological practice has proven that Gynostemma pentaphyllum can prevent normal cells from becoming cancerous. It mainly acts on the DNA synthesis process of tumor cells and enhances the gene mutation ability of tumor cells.

8. Improve immunity

Gynostemma pentaphyllum can enhance macrophage ability, significantly increase the number of white blood cells, and at the same time increase the phagocytic function of white blood cells themselves, promote the secretion of interleukins in the body, increase the production of serum immunoglobulins, and induce the production of interferon, having a bidirectional regulatory effect on the immune system.

In addition to being able to lower blood pressure and blood lipids by drinking water, Gynostemma pentaphyllum itself also has the effect of fighting and preventing cancer, improving immunity, and increasing the number of high white blood cells, while also increasing its own protective effect. Therefore, Gynostemma pentaphyllum itself is very useful, but when consuming Gynostemma pentaphyllum, you must follow the doctor's instructions.