Q&A: Health food - 7th Lophatherum Essence Care series

1. What attention should be taken when taking Guozhen Lophatherum Essence?

Directions:

(1) Guozhen Lophatherum Essence, as a health food, is no medicine. Patients should take medicine consistently without interfering in his treatment plan or delaying his treatment.

(2) Healthcare amount: it is suggested to be taken twice a day with 2-3 pills each time. The recommended dose of Lophatherum Essence is 70-105 mg daily in term of flavone with 17.5 mg in each pill and the proper daily dose suggested by relevant experts in China is 100-300 milligram (including vegetable, fruit, cereal and fruit juice).

(3) The dose for patients with high lipidemia can be increased accordingly. As more dosage is not bound to better effect, it should be taken according to the patient's conditions.

Points for attention:

(1) Discomfort and acid reaction for some people after taking it at the beginning is a common phenomenon after people take flavonoid, and Lophatherum Essence can be continually taken after meal.

(2) A sense of fever is a reflection of the flavonoid's promotion on the blood circulation by removing the blood wastes after entering the blood and Lophatherum Essence can be continually taken.

(3) A better effect can be achieved by taking it twice a day, one in the morning and the other in the evening than once a day, and after meals is especially better than before meals for people with a cold stomach.

(4) The best healthcare effect can be achieved when it is taken with small amount (4-6 pills each day) constantly.

(5) No other food and medicine is forbidden, but it is suggested to be taken with an interval of over half an hour with them.

2. Does Guozhen Lophatherum Essence cause allergy?

Generally speaking, it does not. A small number of people may have bleed at the nose and stomach convulsion after taking a large dose, and they should reduce the dose or stop taking it.

3. Why would a small number of people encounter diarrhea after taking Guozhen Lophatherum Essence?

The diarrhea in a small number of people with cold stomach disorders and allergic constitution is supposedly due to their hypersensitivity to the heat-removing and detoxification components (such as phenolic compounds and minerals). These people may take Lophatherum Essence together with pine pollen or after meals.

4. Why would some people experience blood lipid increase after taking Guozhen Lophatherum Essence?

Clinical trials showed that Guozhen Lophatherum Essence can effectively regulate the blood lipid level, and lower the levels of triglyceride, low density lipoprotein (LDL) and very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) in the blood of the person who took it. It can also raise the high density lipoprotein (HDL) level, reduce the coagulation of blood platelet, and bring down excess blood pressure. Therefore, after taking Guozhen Lophatherum Essence for a certain period of time, many hyperlipidemia patients experienced positive change in their blood lipid level.

However, not every one can have the expected result, and some even experienced increase in their blood lipid level, the main reason of which is that many factors can affect the positive improvement of blood lipid level, such as the fat contained in the food, degree of physical exercises, drinking or not, taking other medication or not. Moreover, different consumers, even taking or having the same kind and same dose of blood lipid reducing drug or health food, will experience effect to different degrees. Therefore, such consumers should, within a longer period of time, adjust their food and exercise habits while taking Guozhen Lophatherum Essence, after which the satisfactory healthcare effect can be demonstrated gradually.

5. How should the "three high" group (people with a high level in lipidemia, high blood pressure and high blood sugar) take Guozhen Lophatherum Essence?

The observation of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases' treatment with Lophatherum Essence taken for 1-3 months in clinical practice has demonstrated its marvelous therapeutic effect on the decreases of the triglyceride, cholesterol and low density lipoprotein and rise of high density lipoprotein. Besides, it can also improve symptoms such as dizziness, headache, insomnia, breast anomalies，nervousness and body numbness caused by hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, cerebral thrombus without any negative effect on liver and kidney functions, blood and urine routines.

Directions: Lophatherum Essence, as a health food, is an auxiliary treatment and can be taken following the instructions on the package without interfering in the patient's original treatment plan. It can be taken twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening with 2-3 pills each time. It should be taken persistently. To reduce medicine after the disease is relieved, follow the doctor's instructions.