Cnidium Fruit Extract

Product Details

Cnidium fruit extract is extract from Fructus Cnidii, a kind of plant, also known as wild carrot, which is picked in summer and autumn. It has a mild temper and tastes a little bitter. Its effective components include pinene, Bornyl isovalerate, osmol, dihydrocaryol, bergamot lactone, cnidiadin, isopimpinellin, etc. It can be used as an additive in medical and health products and functional drinks.

As a traditional Chinese medicine, Fructus Cnidii has a wide range of uses and many effects. Its main active components are coumarins mainly composed of Osthol.It has the effects of drying dampness and expelling wind, killing insects and relieving itching, warming the kidney and strengthening yang. Clinically, it is mainly used to treat impotence, palace cold, cold dampness, dampness arthralgia and low back pain, and externally used to treat vaginal eczema, trichomonal vaginitis, etc.

Health Benefits

✅Trichomonas effect:

Cnidium monnieri is used externally to treat trichomonal vaginitis, but the effect of single Cnidium monnieri is poor or very weak, and its active components have not been reported. Compound Fructus Cnidii suppository or lotion is effective.

✅Sex hormone-like effect:

The ethanol extract of Fructus Cnidii can be subcutaneously injected into mice for 32 consecutive days every day, which can prolong the estrus period, shorten the estrus interval, and make castrated mice have estrus period, increase the weight of ovaries and uterus, which has a similar sex hormone like effect.

✅Antiasthmatic effect:

Total coumarins of fructus Cnidii have antiasthmatic effect, which can significantly reduce or disappear the wheezing sound in the lungs of asthmatic patients, significantly increase the peak expiratory flow rate and improve the pulmonary ventilation function. Its function is to dilate bronchial smooth muscle and improve pulmonary ventilation function. Therefore, it is speculated that the total coumarin of Fructus Cnidii may have the effect of B-receptor stimulant.

✅Anti arrhythmia: the aqueous extract of Cnidium monnieri has preventive effect on chloroform induced ventricular fibrillation in mice, calcium chloride induced ventricular fibrillation in rats and ornithine induced arrhythmia in rats, and has obvious therapeutic effect on the latter.