(Berberine HCL)Berberine Hydrochloride

Berberine Overview

Berberine has been in clinical as over-the-counter drugs used to treat diarrhea, but modern pharmacology study proves berberine has effect for anti cardiac failure, arrhythmia, lower cholesterol, anti proliferation of vascular smooth muscle, improve insulin resistance, antiplatelet, anti-inflammatory effect, thus in the cardiovascular system and nervous system diseases could have extensive and important application prospect, More and more attention has focus on it.

Berberine, an important alkaloid, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for a long time in China. It can be extracted from plants such as Rhizoma coptidis, Phellodendri, and Barberry. It has a significant antibacterial effect.Berberine can resist pathogenic microorganisms and has inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria such as Shigella, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pneumococcus, Salmonella typhi and diphtheria, among which Shigella has the strongest effect.It is commonly used to treat bacterial gastroenteritis, dysentery and other digestive tract diseases. Clinically, it is mainly used for the treatment of bacillary dysentery and gastroenteritis. It has no drug resistance and side effects. According to the explanation of traditional Chinese medicine, this kind of medicine is cool, can remove the evil heat or deficiency heat, and remove harmful poisons. It has been a good medicine for clearing heat and detoxification, it wildly used for Chinese traditional doctor.