What are the effects and functions of plateau rhodiola rosea?

In general, what we know is that Rhodiola rosea has a significant effect on preventing altitude sickness. It has the effects of nourishing vital energy, relieving fever, resisting fatigue, and resisting cerebral hypoxia. Normally, the Rhodiola rosea sold in the market includes several categories such as granules, oral liquids, and traditional Chinese medicine made from the rhizomes of Rhodiola rosea. The main function of Rhodiola rosea is prevention, so it needs to be taken in advance. So what are the effects and functions of plateau Rhodiola rosea?

1. For the cardiovascular system: Plateau Rhodiola rosea can effectively reduce the burden on the heart, improve heart function, enhance the pumping function of the ischemic heart, speed up blood flow, and to a certain extent correct the disorder of cardiac hemodynamics caused by ischemia; because it has the effects of invigorating qi, activating blood circulation, and removing blood stasis, it can clear vascular garbage, increase the amount of hemoglobin, and increase the blood oxygen content, so it has a protective effect on myocardial hypoxia, and can repair damaged myocardial cells and restore heart vitality.

2. Anti-hypoxic effect: Plateau Rhodiola rosea has a significant effect on improving endurance of hypoxic exercise. It can improve the body's aerobic metabolic process during hypoxia on an overall level, and has a protective effect on myocardial cells damaged by re-oxygenation after hypoxia. It can reduce the body's overall oxygen consumption rate and improve the brain's tolerance to hypoxia. At the same time, it can increase the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity, increase the body's disease resistance, and enable diseased tissue to recover rapidly.

3. Hypoglycemic effect: Plateau Rhodiola rosea is rich in chromium, which is 20 times that of egg yolk and has a significant hypoglycemic effect.

4. Lipid-lowering effect: Plateau Rhodiola rosea can promote the metabolism of cholesterol and fat, reduce blood viscosity, resist platelet aggregation, reduce blood lipids (triglycerides) in hyperlipidemia, and resist thrombosis, so that they do not precipitate in blood vessels, thereby preventing the occurrence and development of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

5. Anti-aging effect: Plateau rhodiola rosea can promote protein synthesis, reduce phosphatase activity, increase superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and glutathione (GSH) content, inhibit the formation of lipid peroxide (LPO), inhibit the formation of intracellular lipofuscin and reactive oxygen, and inhibit the degenerative changes of cells and organs. Therefore, rhodiola rosea is a strong antioxidant, and can delay or prevent aging of the cerebral cortex, affect lipid metabolism and fight against free radical oxidation; enhance cell metabolism and synthesis, and improve cell vitality. Plateau Rhodiola rosea has a stimulating effect on fibroblasts in the dermis, and therefore also has an anti-aging effect on the skin.

6. Effect on immune function: Plateau Rhodiola rosea can significantly increase the weight and index of spleen and thymus, and is an immune enhancer. In a cold environment, it can regulate the nonspecific and specific immune functions of the human body at low temperatures, enhance cold resistance, and accelerate the establishment of cold adaptation.

The above briefly introduces the effects and functions of plateau Rhodiola rosea. Many medicines are extracted from pure natural green plants. However, some auxiliary medicines will also be added. No matter how good the medicine is, we still have to maintain our good living and eating habits, and not blindly take medicine to supplement it. The consequences of not taking the right medicine can be serious.