Wild Yam.Dioscorea villosa and Phytochemicals.

Contents

• Botanical Basic data of Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa.
• Botanical Description of Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa.
• Properties of Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa.
• Wild Yam and Its Phytochemicals.
• Discover of disgenin from Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa.
• Food and Pharmaceutical Uses of Wild Yam:Huai Shan Yao.
• What is hormone banlancing mechanism? Wild Yam act as hormone balancer,diosgenin as substitution of progesterone.
• Breast Enlargement effect of Diosgenin as phytoestrogens.
• Why should Women Use Wild Yam?
• Therapeutic Action,Pharmacology and application of Wild Yam.Dioscorea Villosa and diosgenin.
• Dosage Recomments,Safety Toxicity and Administrations.
• Conclusions and summary.
• Final report of the amended safety assessment of Dioscorea Villosa Wild Yam root extract.
• Uses based on scientific evidence.
• Diosgenin and Wild Yam Research Update.
• Dioscorea Use in Chinese Medicine.
• How Search engine think about Diosgenin and Yam.
• Research update.
• Photo Gallery of Dioscorea villosa.

Wild Yam and Its Phytochemicals.:

Wild Yam and Its Phytochemicals:

 Main Content:Dioscin,C₄₅H₇₂O₁₆; Diosgenin,C₂₇H₄₂O₃,(0.012%); Batatasin I,C₁₇H₁₆O₄; batatasin IV,C₁₅H₁₆O₃; allantoin,C₄H₆N₄O₃.

 Other Constituents:

 Catecholamine;3,4-dihydroxypheny-lethylamine (dopamine); bastata sine-hydrochorde; bastatasin II,bastatasin III,bastatasin V; protein (1.5%); Wild Yam Polysaccharide(mannose:glucose:galactose=6.45:1:1.26( Mol));starch 16%;riboflavin,Vitamin C,nicotinic acid or niacin,Vitamin B1,Barium,Beryllium,Cobalt,Chrome,Copper,Calcium,Polyphenoloxidase; choline,fiber 0.9%,Carbohydrate14.4%,Carotene,mucilage,phytic acid,etc.

 Standardization:

  Standardization involves measuring the amount of certain chemicals in products to try to make different preparations similar to each other. It is not always known if the chemicals being measured are the functional phytochemicals . Typical standardization of wild yam products is to 10% diosgenin per dose. Diosgenin is considered the primary active ingredient in wild yam, and is similar in structure to cholesterol. There are reports that synthetic progesterone has been added to some wild yam products.
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♣ last edit date:Jan 09th 2013 at 14:30