1. Ingredients
(1) Product name : Kudzu Pill 100
(2) Ingredients & Contents: Kudzu powder 70%(Korea), Kudzu extract 30%(solid 40,Korea)
(3) Intake amount and Method: 2~3 times daily, 1 pack at a time before and after meals
(4) Precautions
- Keep it in a refrigerator or in a cool place away from direct sunlight.
- Do not use the product in a dilated or deformed container
- Take it in after confirming the raw materials as an overreacting response may sometimes occur depending on an individual in the cases of a particular patient, unique physical constitution, allergic constitution, a patient in the middle of disease treatment, or a pregnant woman.
- Taste and colors of this product may differ according to the producing area, growing condition, and collecting time of the materials.
2. What is kudzu root (Pueraria lobata)?
In Oriental Medicine, kudzu roots have been used as a medicinal plant, known to have an effect on regulation of sweat and alleviation of fever. Roots can be processed into powder, which contains edible starch; the bark of its stem is used as a raw material for fabric; water boiled with roots is used for tea or a drink.
From old times, kudzu roots have been widely used in our daily life as a both medicinal and dietary plant; sometimes, it can be enjoyed as a snack because it produces sweet juice when chewing pieces of raw root flesh.
(1) Major ingredients
Kudzu root contains 10~14% starch, 4~5% sugar, daidzein, daidzin, genistein, p-coumaric aicd, puerrarin, quercetin, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and vitamin B2.
3. Efficacy
(1) Recovery of hangover
- Daidzin: to treat alcohol abuse
- One Harvard University research result showed that drinking kudzu juice regularly reduces alcohol consumption.
- Kudzu has been used to relieve hangovers; moreover, there are reports that it inhibits alcohol consumption, and white rat experiments showed that it promoted decomposition of acetaldehyde which is a toxic substance produced after drinking.
(2) Kudzu draws up water and nutrients from the ground and stores them in its root. Consumption of the root helps people regulate water and nutrients in their body, bringing out good outcome on diarrhea and constipation and, at the same time, healing fevers by lowering heat with the discharge of the water out of the body.
(3) Kudzu helps discharge heavy metals that have accumulated in the body during the yellow dust season ~ an excerpt from a program aired on Vitamin TV
(4) Kudzu contains vegetable estrogen by 10 times more than soy bean and by 625 times more than pomegranate, which prove to have good effects on women’s menopausal symptoms, including a delay in menopause and the prevention of osteoporosis.
(5) Kudzu regulates blood sugar levels, being a wonderful food for people with diabetes.
(6) Kudzu belongs to an alkaline food that contains large amounts of carbohydrates, inorganic substances, and vitamin C; therefore, it helps promote secretion of growth hormones in children. It also exhibits good effects on an atopic skin and is effective for skin health.
(7) Puerarin: increasing the flow of blood in the coronary arteries and protecting the heart against myocardial infarction caused by the infusion of pituitrin.