Punica Granatum
September 30, 2018
Reineckia Carnea
September 30, 2018
Rabdosia Rubescens
This plant contains many active ingredients such as terpenoids, flavonoids, polysaccharides and organic acids. While the many uses for this plant has been in treatment for sore throats, arthritis, and various kinds of cancer.
It has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for the uses of anti-tumor, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.
Benefits of Rabdosia Rubescens
The increased incidence of apoptosis, identified by characteristic changes in cell morphology, was seen in tumor lines treated with oridonin.
Oridonin inhibits cancer cell growth in a cell cycle specific manner and shifts the balance between pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins in favor of apoptosis. The present data suggest that further studies are warranted to assess the potential of oridonin in cancer prevention and/or treatment.
Anti-Cancer - Ponicidin and oridonin are novel diterpenoids isolated from Rabdosia rubescens. We tested their effects in MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells, as representing low and high invasive breast carcinoma, with normal MCF-10A cells.
These results provide a mechanistic framework for the cellular effects of ponicidin and oridonin in different stage breast cancer cells.
In this study, we examined the inhibitory effects of certain individual components of PC-SPES on the in vitro proliferation of the human