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Is Dihydromyricetin Extract Safe?

The answer is YES.

The Biological Experiment of Dihydromyricetin Extract

It is reported that on January 13, 2012, the Oriental Morning Post reported that researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles developed a new drug using Fructus aurantii extract, which could be injected into mice to relieve alcohol, which could relieve the “top” symptoms in a short period of time.

The researchers used the Fructus aurantii extract Dihydromyricetin (DHM) to observe the antialcoholism efficacy of different medicinal herbs. They let the mice drink a certain amount of alcohol in 2 hours, which was equivalent to drinking 15 to 20 bottles of beer. As expected, most of the mice were drunk and the rest had not been touched even after being knocked down. Within 1 hour, the symptoms of drunkenness began to weaken, and mice gradually resumed their control of the body.

In the second part of the experiment, the researchers injected the mice with alcohol and injected them with dihydromyricetin, and found that the mice increased their ability to control their own behavior, delayed the onset of drunken symptoms, and recovered about 15 minutes after drunkenness.

Moreover, rats injected with dihydromyricetin for two days in a row were less excited, had spasticity and other drunken symptoms, and were not “greedy”, which meant that dihydromyricetin had a certain inhibitory effect on alcohol addiction.

It is observed that the effect of dihydromyricetin is effective. Drinking and ingestion of rattan tea containing dihydromyricetin can quickly remove alcohol and make the problem of hangovers effectively restrained.

Antibacterial Effect of Dihydromyricetin Extract

The pharmacological experiments showed that Dihydromyricetin had bacteriostasis effect on Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella, Escherichia coli, bacilli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, myxomyces, Penicillium, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Mucor, and Rhizopus, especially gram positive, gram negative cocci.

It has many functions:

1) Dihydromyricetin can Clear the free radical in the body and Antioxidation:

The vine tea extract can effectively level down lipid peroxidation. It can prevent the oxidative damage of antioxidase in the body caused by the free radical. Then it can improve the oxidation resistance of the human body;

2) Dihydromyricetin can Antibiotic Action:

The vine tea extract has the strong inhibitory action of staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis. It also has inhibitory action of Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Penicillium, and Alternaria. Dihydromyricetin has the inhibitory action of Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus aureus(S. aureus), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

3) Dihydromyricetin can Protect the Liver:

Dihydromyricetin has a strong inhibitory action on the rise of ALT and AST in the blood Serum. It can lower the total bilirubin in the blood serum. So it has the strong action of lowing the aminotransferase and jaundice. The vine tea extract can restrain liver fibrosis in the rat.

4) Dihydromyricetin can Reduce the levels of blood sugar and blood fat:

Dihydromyricetin can reduce the blood fat levels in the mouse. It can decrease the damage to liver cells caused by high blood fat levels and improve the antioxidation ability. At the same time, it can lower the levels of high blood sugar.

5) Dihydromyricetin can Anti-inflammation:

The vine tea extract can effectively restrain the mouse pinna swelling caused by xylene. It can also restrain the writhing response in the mouse caused by acetic acid.

6) Dihydromyricetin can Anti-tumor:

The vine tea extract has effectively restrained to cell proliferation of some tumor cells.