What are the effects of Luo Han Guo

Luo Han Guo is cool in nature and sweet in taste; it belongs to the lung and large intestine meridians. Luohan fruit is rich in glucose, fructose and many vitamins and is suitable for people with phlegm fire cough, blood dryness and constipation and 100-day cough. From the following article we can learn more about the efficacy and effects of Luo Han Guo.

Clearing heat and moistening the lungs

Luo Han Guo is sweet, cold and light in nature. It is classified into the lung meridian and has the effect of clearing and promoting lung energy, moistening the lung and resolving phlegm. It is often used to treat coughs with thick phlegm, coughs without phlegm, dry coughs without phlegm, and dry throat caused by external wind-heat and lung-heat injury.

Relieving pharynx and opening the voice

Luo Han Guo is sweet in taste and enters the lung meridian. It can clear and promote the lung qi, promote pharynx and open the voice, and is often used for treating lung heat and sore throat, hoarseness, dry throat and cough.

Laxative for bowel movement

Luo Han Guo is cold in nature and enters the large intestine meridian. Luo Han Guo is smooth and moist in nature, and can promote upward and downward movement, so it can clear fire and heat, moisten the intestines and open the bowels, so it is often used to treat constipation caused by lung heat, headache and redness of the eyes.

Improve immune function

Luo Han Guo contains Luo Han Guo polysaccharide, which can increase the weight of immune organs, improve the phagocytosis of abdominal macrophages, promote the formation of serum hemolysin, increase the conversion rate of lymphocytes and immune organ index. Therefore, Luo Han Guo has obvious immune enhancing effects on cellular immunity, humoral immunity and non-specific each of the body.

Protects the liver

The extract of Luo Han Guo - Luo Han Guo sweet glucoside has a significant antagonistic effect on the elevation of serum transaminase and glutamic oxalacetic transaminase caused by carbon tetrachloride chronic liver injury, and also causes a significant decrease of malondialdehyde content and a significant increase of superoxide dismutase content in liver homogenate (homogeneous liver tissue fluid), which significantly reduces the degree of histopathological changes in the liver. Therefore, rooibos has a protective effect on the liver.

Antibacterial

In the tests conducted on the leaf and stem extracts of Luo Han Guo, it was found that with the increase in the concentration of ethanolic extract of leaves and stems of Luo Han Guo, the colony ripening of various experimental bacteria gradually decreased, thus indicating that the ethanolic extract of leaves and stems of Luo Han Guo had different degrees of antibacterial effects, so that Luo Han Guo also had certain antibacterial effects.

Hypoglycemia

Luo Han Guo extract may attenuate the damage to pancreatic β-cells by tetraoxonin and improve the function of damaged cells, increase the secretion of total insulin from pancreatic islets and reduce the pathological damage to pancreatic islets. In addition Luo Han Guo is rich in sweeteners and does not produce calories, which has hypoglycemic effect and may assist in the treatment of diabetes and obesity.