Chinese Yam

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A tuberous plant commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine
Uses Anorexia, bacterial infections, chronic fatigue, cough, diabetes, diarrhoea, poor digestion, immune defects, nocturnal emissions, purulent discharges, spermatorrhoea, urinary frequency, vaginal discharges, wheezing, and to stimulate internal secretions
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Dioscorea opposita. In vitro In vivo Nobiletin, flavonoid In vitro from citrus peels.
A Potential Alternative against Neurodegenerative Diseases: Phytodrugs
RD is the dried rhizoma of Dioscorea opposita Thunb., which is produced in China.
Treatment with Rhizoma Dioscoreae extract has protective effect on osteopenia in ovariectomized rats
Liu, "Dioscorea opposita reverses dexamethasone induced insulin resistance," Fitoterapia, vol.
Antidiabetic effects of Carassius auratus complex formula in high fat diet combined streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice
The molecular weight of LCL is 70 kDa, similar to other reported lectins like Dioscorea opposita lectin (Chan and Ng, 2013).
Isolation and antiproliferative activity of Lotus corniculatus lectin towards human tumour cell lines
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