Red Yeast Rice 5.0% Monacolin K

More about Red Yeast Rice

Red yeast rice is a substance made by fermenting a type of red yeast called Monascus purpureus over rice.Red yeast rice has been used in China as a preservative, spice, and food coloring. It's used to give Peking duck its characteristic red color and can also be an ingredient in fish sauce, fish paste, and rice wine. Red yeast rice is used in traditional Chinese medicine as a remedy for poor circulation, indigestion, and diarrhea.

Red yeast rice contains naturally-occurring substances called monacolins. Monocolins, particularly one called lovastatin, is believed to be converted in the body to a substance that inhibits HMG-CoA reductase, an enzyme that triggers cholesterol production. This is the way the popular statin drugs work.Because of this action, red yeast rice products containing a higher concentration of monocolins have been developed and marketed as a natural product to lower cholesterol.

Red yeast rice effect:Red yeast rice, spleen, large intestine; with blood stasis, spleen warm stomach digestion and other effects; can be used for post-operative lochia is not net, stagnant abdominal pain, food fullness, red white diarrhea, bruises injury embolism The "Materia Medica of the original" that "where the seven emotions of the disease in the gas so that the astringent person, all intended to Zuo."

Benefits:

1.      Significantly lower cholesterol levels.

2.      Treat circulatory and digestive disorders 

3.      It is called the milestone of curing cardiovascular diseases.