Puerarin, also known as puerarin flavonoids, is a natural isoflavone carbon glycoside, which is the key component of kudzu root to exert its medicinal effect. Puerarin has the effects of lowering blood sugar, regulating blood lipids, protecting blood vessels, anti-oxidative stress, anti-infection, and improving insulin sensitivity index, etc., and has fewer adverse reactions. It is known as "phytoestrogen" and is clinically used to treat heart and brain Diseases such as vascular disease, cancer, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and diabetic complications.


1. Pueraria root crude extract and puerarin have regulatory effects on proliferation inhibition, apoptosis induction and cell cycle of liver cancer cells SMMC-7721.
2. Puerarin has the effects of relieving muscle and reducing fever, clearing rash, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst, promoting yang and relieving diarrhea, dredging meridian and activating collaterals, and relieving alcohol poisoning.
3. Puerarin is often used in exogenous headache and fever, stiff neck and back pain, opaque measles, thirst, thirst, hot dysentery, diarrhea, dizziness and headache, stroke hemiplegia, chest pain and heartache, and alcohol poisoning.
4. Puerarin can scavenge free radicals in the body to varying degrees, reduce lipid peroxidation damage, and increase the activity of antioxidant enzymes in the body, such as SOD, glutathione peroxidase, and catalase. 5. Puerarin can improve immunity, improve microcirculation, dilate blood vessels, increase coronary flow, lower blood pressure, slow heart rate and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption without obvious negative inotropic effect. It also has the effects of antithrombotic, increasing high-density lipoprotein, anti-vasospasm and reducing platelet aggregation.
6. Puerarin has a preventive effect on diabetic retinopathy, and puerarin also has a therapeutic effect on gestational diabetes.