Berberine Hydrochloride---How much do you know about the effects of it?

Pharmacological studies have shown that berberine hydrochloride can effectively inhibit various bacteria. It belongs to a type of alkaloid, usually extracted from European barberry, Berberidis Radix, phellodendron, goldenseal, and goldthread and its most powerful effect is bacteriostasis.

Pharmacological studies have shown that berberine hydrochloride can effectively inhibit various bacteria. It belongs to a type of alkaloid, usually extracted from European barberry, Berberidis Radix, phellodendron, goldenseal, and goldthread and its most powerful effect is bacteriostasis.

Berberine hydrochloride can fully exert its inhibitory effect on intestinal bacteria such as Shigella dysentery, Shigella flexneri, Salmonella, and Staphylococcus aureus, while maintaining a stable intestinal microenvironment and protecting the gastrointestinal mucosa, solving diarrhea caused by intestinal infections.

The research found that berberine hydrochloride and its derivatives have good performance in treating hyperlipidemia, diabetes, arrhythmia, mental disease, immune system disease, Alzheimer's disease, hypertension, obesity, digestive tract ulcer, tumor and many other aspects.

Through research, it has been found that after patients take berberine hydrochloride, the drug only stays in the intestine, resulting in much smaller adverse reactions than other drugs. In addition, using it to treat Helicobacter pylori infected gastric ulcers can improve patient symptoms as soon as possible, enhance overall efficacy, and effectively regulate the patient's gut microbiota.

Scientific research results show that berberine hydrochloride can increase coronary artery blood flow, improve myocardial function, and thus reduce the incidence rate of arrhythmia caused by coronary artery infarction.

Research has confirmed that berberine hydrochloride promotes the absorption of low-density lipoprotein by liver cells, thereby reducing blood lipids. Its mechanism of action is completely different from that of statin drugs, but its lipid-lowering effect is equivalent to that of statin drugs and has no significant impact on liver and kidney function in patients. Clinical observations have shown that in patients with hypercholesterolemia treated with berberine hydrochloride, serum total cholesterol, cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein, and triglycerides decrease by 20% to 28% after oral administration of berberine hydrochloride for 3 months. Since berberine is dozens of times cheaper than "statins", the discovery of berberine hydrochloride's lipid-lowering effect has an inestimable value for the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

A retrospective study found that compared to amiodarone, berberine hydrochloride significantly prolonged the average transition time and faster heart rate of sinus rhythm, improved the ratio of early to late ventricular filling velocity (E/A), and left atrial diameter, indicating that berberine is equally effective in converting atrial fibrillation and maintaining normal sinus rhythm.

Adding berberine hydrochloride to feed can prevent and treat animal diarrhea.