GOLDEN ROOTS

Botanical name: Rhodiola rosea L.

Family name: CRASSULACEAE

                     Golden roots to increase physical endurance, work productivity, longevity, resistance to high altitude sickness, and to treat fatigue, depression, anemia, impotence, gastrointestinal ailments, infections, and nervous system disorders. Golden roots tea was the most effective treatment for cold and flu during severe winters. Mongolian doctors prescribed it for tuberculosis and cancer. Golden roots as an astringent and for the treatment of hernia, leucorrhoea (vaginal discharge), hysteria, and headache. Vikings used the herb to enhance their physical strength and endurance German researchers described the benefits of Golden roots for pain, headache, scurvy, hemorrhoids, as a stimulant, and as an anti-inflammatory Golden roots were found to contain powerful adaptogens, it protected animals and humans from mental and physical stress, toxins, and cold. The quest for new medicines to treat diseases such as cancer led to the discovery of a group of phenylpropanoids that are specific to Golden roots. The phytochemistry of Golden roots has revealed the presence of six distinct groups of chemical compounds: Phenylpropanoids: rosavin, rosin, rosarin (specific to Golden roots). Phenylethanol derivatives: salidroside (rhodioloside), tyrosol. Flavanoids: rodiolin, rodionin, rodiosin, acetylrodalgin, tricin. Monoterpernes: rosiridol, rosaridin. Triterpenes: daucosterol, b-sitosterol. Phenolic acids: chlorogenic and hydroxycinnamic, gallic acids.

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS OF GOLDEN ROOTS EXTRACT