Leuzea or Rhaponticum carthamoides - Application Prospects in Sport, Medicine, Sciens

Sun, 15 Dec 2013 06:00:20 GMT

#Leuzea or #Rhaponticum carthamoides - Application Prospects as Pharmpreparations and Biologically Active Components in Sport, Medicine, Sciens. Leuzea or #MaralRoot is a rare and threatened plant of unique properties. It contains #phytoecdysteroids - biostimulants and takes a prominent position among other #adaptogens by its ability to prevent many diseases, efficiently cure a great number of pathologies. The preparations of #Leuzea do not have any age or seasonal restrictions. Their safety and the absence of side effects have stood a five-thousand year test of usage in East medicine. Moreover, they are excellently combinable with classical drugs. Food additives of #Leuzea are used as antidepressants and immunostimulants, concentrators of psychical energy, physical and sexual strength, anti-shock, -pain and wound-healing remedies. The preparations cause an #anabolic effect in vertebrates by stimulating the protein biosynthesis in muscle tissues. They are used as high technology products in numerous medicine, biotechnology, and agriculture fields. Till recent time, their inaccessibility for most people lied in absence of a cultivated source of raw materials. At present, there are technologies contributing to a natural #ecdysteroid biosynthesis in an artificial cenosis; problis with loosing highly-active fractions during crop collection and treatment are solved. New highly-active pharmpreparations have been developed (daily doses 0.5-10.0 µg/kg biomass or 10-12...10-11 M, if #20-hydroxyecdysone).
The paper is published - Timofeev N.P. 'Leuzea carthamoides DC. Application Prospects as Pharmpreparations and Biologically Active Components. In Books - Functional Foods for Chronic Diseases (Ed. DM Martirosyan). Richardson (Texas, USA), DA Incorporated, 2006. - P. 105-120. Keywords: #Leuzea, #Rhaponticum #carthamoides, medicinal plants, agropopulations, #ecdysteroids, #ecdysterone, #20-hydroxyecdysone'