What are the benefits and effects of Rosa roxburghii? Read this one article to understand it all
Rosa roxburghii has an extremely high vitamin C content and is known as the king of vitamin C among fruits. It also has relatively high medicinal value. In traditional Chinese medicine, Rosa roxburghii is considered sweet and sour in taste, cool in nature, and enters the spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of strengthening the stomach and promoting digestion, clearing heat and relieving summer heat, and can be used to treat a variety of diseases. Let us now take a look at the benefits and effects of Rosa roxburghii!
The nutritional components of Rosa roxburghii
The fruit of Rosa roxburghii is also a premium raw material for processing health foods. Ripe Rosa roxburghii fruit has thick, plump flesh and a sweet-sour taste. The fruit is rich in sugars, vitamins, carotene, organic acids, more than 20 kinds of amino acids, more than 10 kinds of trace elements beneficial to the human body, and superoxide dismutase. In particular, its vitamin C content is extremely high, the highest among current fruits, at 841.58-3541.13 mg per 100 grams of fresh fruit, 50 times that of citrus and 10 times that of kiwifruit, and it enjoys the reputation of the “king of vitamin C.”
The nutritional value of Rosa roxburghii
1. Rosa roxburghii is rich in vitamin C, with a content that is the highest among all plants, nearly 3 times that of sour jujube, which ranks second, and 30 times that of kiwifruit, the king of fruits, so it is called the king of vitamin C.
2. Rosa roxburghii is rich in B vitamins, which can protect the heart, reduce fatigue, enhance myocardial vitality, and lower blood pressure.
3. The polysaccharides and tannic acid and other components contained in Rosa roxburghii can resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and have a nourishing effect on the throat.
4. Rosa roxburghii is cool in nature and can clear heat and calm the mind. Regular consumption can restore blood pressure to normal and improve symptoms such as dizziness and blurred vision.
5. The lipase contained in Rosa roxburghii can increase the secretion of enzymes in the stomach, promote food digestion, and has therapeutic effects such as treating food accumulation and abdominal bloating, stimulating appetite and strengthening the body, and astringing to stop diarrhea.
6. The fruit of Rosa roxburghii contains 18 kinds of amino acids, including 8 essential amino acids for the human body.
7. Rosa roxburghii is rich in superoxide dismutase (SOD), with a content as high as 6000 U/100 ml, ranking first among wild fruits. SOD significantly enhances immune function and has beauty benefits.
8. Rosa roxburghii also contains relatively many trace elements, such as selenium and zinc, which are beneficial for cancer prevention and anti-cancer effects.
9. Rosa roxburghii contains relatively high dietary fiber, which helps with detoxification and beauty care.
10. Unlike ordinary fruits, Rosa roxburghii is also rich in tannins. Tannins have effects such as sterilization, beauty care, anti-aging, adsorption of heavy metals, and clarification of liquids.
11. Vitamin E, B-sitosterol, SOD, and catalase in Rosa roxburghii form a protective system that eliminates reactive oxygen species such as superoxide anion free radicals.
The benefits and effects of Rosa roxburghii
[Nature and flavor]Sweet and sour in taste, cool in nature.
[Meridians entered]Spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians.
[Effects]Strengthens the stomach and promotes digestion, clears heat and relieves summer heat. Used to treat food accumulation and abdominal distension, dysentery, enteritis, vitamin C deficiency, and other conditions.
1. Enhancing immune function: Rosa roxburghii juice not only significantly affects animals' nonspecific immune function, such as promoting normal splenocyte proliferation and enhancing intraperitoneal macrophage phagocytosis, but also has obvious effects on specific immune function, such as increasing the number of B lymphocytes, enhancing the ability of B lymphocytes to secrete antibodies, increasing peripheral blood T lymphocytes, and enhancing splenic natural killer cell activity.
2. Delaying aging: Research has found that Rosa roxburghii juice can significantly reduce free radical content and lipofuscin levels in animal heart, liver, and brain, increase the numbers of lymphocytes, red blood cells, white blood cells, and neutrophils, and raise serum protein content, suggesting that Rosa roxburghii has anti-aging effects. Japanese scholars found through research that Rosa roxburghii juice has a significant scavenging effect on superoxide free radicals, hydroxyl free radicals, diphenyl—2-picrylhydrazyl free radicals, and carbon-centered free radicals.
3. Anti-atherosclerosis: Consuming Rosa roxburghii juice can lower blood cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and lipid peroxide levels, increase SOD activity, regulate lipid metabolism in hyperlipidemia, reduce blood viscosity, alleviate lipid peroxidation damage, reduce the degree of arterial lesions, and prevent hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Rosa roxburghii juice can reduce various lipoproteins in a dose-dependent manner, and its effect is significantly higher than that of the same dose of vitamin C and vitamin E preparations. After patients with coronary heart disease orally took Rosa roxburghii juice, plasma vitamin C and vitamin E levels increased significantly.
4. Detoxifying effects
① Lead: Rosa roxburghii juice can significantly increase lead excretion in lead-poisoned rats, and can supplement SOD in the body, significantly increase SOD activity, reduce lipid peroxide content, and significantly enhance immune function in lead-poisoned mice. The lead-eliminating effect of Rosa roxburghii juice has a more comprehensive action than lead-eliminating EDTA, and while eliminating lead it has no effect on essential trace elements in the body.
② Fluorine: Rosa roxburghii juice can antagonize the reduction in antioxidant capacity of liver and kidney tissues caused by high fluoride, antagonize the enhancement of lipid peroxidation in liver and kidney tissues, and cause the lipid peroxide content in liver and kidney to fall back, thereby antagonizing liver and kidney damage and significantly reducing the elevated liver triglyceride content and γ-glutamyl transferase activity.
③ Manganese: Manganese poisoning can increase the body's manganese burden and raise copper content in the body while lowering zinc content in the body. Rosa roxburghii juice can significantly increase fecal manganese excretion, lower manganese content in serum and brain tissue, and supplement zinc content in serum and brain tissue.
④ Mercury: Rosa roxburghii juice can significantly increase urinary mercury excretion and serum vitamin C content, and significantly restore the levels of reduced glutathione (GSH) in serum, liver, brain, and kidney that were reduced by chronic mercury poisoning.
⑤ Cadmium: Rosa roxburghii juice not only has a cadmium-removing effect, but can also antagonize free radical and lipid peroxidation damage and protect kidney function.
5. Anti-tumor effects: Modern medicine believes that N-nitroso compounds are a strong carcinogen, and Rosa roxburghii can block the synthesis of nitrosamines in the body. Research on voluntary human subjects has proven that Rosa roxburghii can reduce the amount of nitrosamine synthesized in the body by 75%. Rosa roxburghii juice has a significant inhibitory effect on the proliferation of human leukemia K562 tumor cells, and active components extracted from Rosa roxburghii also have a significant inhibitory effect on the proliferation of gastric cancer (MKN-45TSGC-7901), human liver cancer (SM-MMC7721), and endometrial adenocarcinoma (JEC) cells.
6. Stomach-strengthening effects: The fruit of Rosa roxburghii can strengthen the spleen and aid digestion, and has an atropine-like pain-relieving effect. The decoction of Rosa roxburghii root has medicinal value in preventing and treating stomach disease and protecting the gastric mucosa.
7. Anti-stress effects: Rosa roxburghii can significantly enhance mice's hypoxia tolerance and anti-fatigue ability. Rosa roxburghii polysaccharides can also improve mice's ability to tolerate high and low temperatures.
8. Prevention and treatment of diabetes: Rosa roxburghii flavonoids can very significantly lower serum glucose and triglycerides in mice, increase serum insulin, significantly raise pancreatic SOD and catalase activity, and significantly reduce malondialdehyde (MDA), thereby protecting the pancreas and preventing diabetes.
9. Other effects: Research shows that Rosa roxburghii can also improve the fertility of male mice. In addition, Rosa roxburghii also has multiple effects such as eliminating fatigue, improving sleep, increasing vitality, eliminating dark spots, and beautifying the skin, and has the effect of strengthening the body.