Wild Yam Extract Plant Description

Yam is a yam plants. The main edible part of an underground tuber. Distribution of a wide range of yam, common in tropical and subtropical regions. Among Central and South America as the most, followed by subtropical region and Africa. The annual production of yam in the tropics is second only to cassava and sweet potato, but more than their nutritional value. It is the most important root crop, is one of the important food crops.

What is wild yam extract Diosgenin? 

Wild Yam Extract Diosgenin, a steroid sapogenin, is the product of hydrolysis by acids, strong bases, or enzymes of saponins, extracted from the tubers of Dioscorea wild yam, such as the Kokoro. The sugar-free (aglycone), diosgenin is used for the commercial synthesis of cortisone, pregnenolone, progesterone, and other steroid products.

Diosgenin or Wild Yam Extract Diosgenin is often promoted as a “natural alterative” to estrogen therapy, so you will see it used for estrogen replacement therapy, vaginal dryness in older women, PMS (premenstrual syndrome), menstrual cramps, weak bones (osteoporosis), increasing energy and sexual drive in men and women, and breast enlargement. Wild yam does seem to have some estrogen-like activity, but it is not actually converted into estrogen in the body.

Wild Yam Extract Diosgenin Fuction

Wild Yam Extract Diosgenin Have an estrogenic effect, beauty whitening, to promote breast growth, alleviate many symptoms of menopause and menstruation, but also with lowering blood pressure, preventing cardiovascular diseases and inflammation, protect the liver, etc.

Diosgenin Applications style: Injection, tablets, capsules and so on.