Alfalfa Leaf Extract

Product Details

Alfalfa leaf extract is native to Asia Minor, Iran, and Transcaucasus. Alfalfa is now widely grown all over the world. In the 1970s, the total cultivated area in the world was more than 33 million hectares, of which the United States accounted for about 32.7%. Since the 1980s, the cultivation area in China has reached more than 1 million hectares, mainly distributed in the northern provinces.

Alfalfa contains more than 80 kinds of flavonoids, including flavonoids and their glycosides, flavonols and their glycosides, isoflavones, isoflavanes, chalcones, dihydroflavonoids, dihydroisoflavonoids and pteranes, etc. Chinese scholars isolated 7 compounds from the chloroform and n-butanol extracted parts of alfalfa plants, and their structures were identified as: apigenin-7-O-β-D-glucoside, luteolin-7-O-β-D- Glucoside, uracil, β-methyl-glucopyranoside, apigenin, alfalfa, 7,4′-dihydroxyflavonoid.

Health Benefits

• Promote cholesterol excretion, lower blood lipids, and prevent and reduce arteriosclerosis.

  Hyperlipidemia is insidious, progressive, systemic, and develops towards younger age. Alfalfa saponins are the only natural substances found today that can effectively combine with lipid substances in the stomach through the esterification process, effectively blocking the intake of cholesterol from entering the blood, thereby blocking the three-high disease health care products.

• Alfalfa saponins can reduce LDL (low density lipoprotein) or “bad” cholesterol by 29%, and at the same time, it can also increase HDL or “good” cholesterol (serum high density lipoprotein) content. Recent clinical trials have confirmed that alfalfa saponins can significantly increase the level of serum HDL cholesterol (serum high-density lipoprotein) in humans.
• Alfalfa extract can reduce the body weight of nutritionally obese rats, reduce Lee’s index, reduce body fat mass and reduce the volume of fat cells. It shows that alfalfa extract has obvious weight loss effect.
• Alfalfa extract can significantly inhibit tissue swelling in the early stage of inflammation, and can inhibit tissue proliferation and granulation formation in the late stage of inflammation, showing a good anti-inflammatory effect.