What are the functions of Dendrobium?

1, anti-aging, improving immunity: Dendrobium can significantly increase the level of superoxide dismutase (SOD), reduce the level of lipid peroxide (LPO), regulate the level of monoamine neurotransmitters in the brain, and inhibit monoamine oxidase (MAO), thus delaying aging. Dendrobium polysaccharide, which has attracted much attention in recent years, also has obvious immune enhancement activity, anti-aging and anti-radiation effects.

2. Promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular functions: Dendrobium contains ester components, which have the functions of promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, dilating blood vessels and resisting platelet aggregation, and can be used for treating thromboangiitis obliterans, cerebral thrombosis and arteriosclerosis obliterans.

Efficacy of Dendrobium officinale

1. Anti-tumor: Phenanthrene and dibenzyl compounds extracted from Dendrobium have anti-lung cancer, ovarian cancer and promyelocytic leukemia. It can promote the growth of T cells and lymphocytes to produce inhibitory factors and enhance immunity. The ethyl acetate extract of Dendrobium nobile has obvious cytotoxicity to human lung cancer cells, human ovarian cancer cells and human promyelocytic leukemia.

In particular, it has a great inhibitory effect on lung cancer cells, and the inhibition rate is as high as 74.7%-97.2%. It has the same pharmacological effect as the crude extract, and the former also has inhibitory effect on transplanted sarcoma S- 180.

2. Treatment of ophthalmic diseases: Dendrobium has obvious therapeutic effect on ophthalmic diseases, not only inhibiting galactose cataract, but also having a certain therapeutic effect, and the percentage of retained lens is 36.8%. In the treatment of cataract, it can inhibit and correct the abnormal change of enzyme activity caused by galactose, and can also prevent or correct the imbalance of total lipid and total cholesterol in lens caused by galactose cataract.