Can cactus lower blood sugar?

Cactus is light and cold. It can promote qi and blood circulation, clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve swelling and pain, strengthen spleen and stop diarrhea, soothe the nerves and induce diuresis. It can be used for oral administration and external use to treat various diseases. In addition, it also discusses the convenient prescription of materia medica, seeking for the grassland, Luchuan materia medica, Lingnan materia medica collection, Minnan folk materia medica and so on.

Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects Cactus extract has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus cereus. Cactus extract can inhibit the replication of DNA and RNA viruses and inactivate extracellular viruses. In addition, cactus has hormone-like anti-inflammatory effect. According to patent records, aromatic amines and sugars extracted from cactus can be used to treat inflammation, pain, itchy skin and local high fever. Cactus is often used to treat mastitis and mumps in the folk, with good curative effect.

Hypoglycemic effect As early as 1925, cactus extract was found to reduce blood sugar concentration. Domestic clinical pharmacological research shows that cactus extract has obvious hypoglycemic effect and can effectively improve the glucose metabolism of patients with type 2 diabetes. In Mexico, tablets and pills for treating diabetes have recently been developed and produced.

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Immune function cactus polysaccharide can enhance immunity and improve the body's resistance to non-specific stimuli. The experiment shows that the aqueous extract of cactus can obviously promote the phagocytosis of peritoneal macrophages in mice.

Anti-gastric ulcer cactus extract has obvious protective and therapeutic effects on stress, indomethacin and pyloric gastric ligation gastric ulcer, and can also increase gastric mucosal blood flow.

Analgesic effect The triterpenoid saponin of cactus has obvious analgesic effect, which is better than that of Shutongding.

Anti-lipid peroxidation The deposition of lipid peroxide in human body will damage liver, kidney and blood vessels, thus causing many diseases, and cactus extract can inhibit the formation of peroxide.

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