Anyone heard about Catalpol??

[Maria3667]

Anyone heard about this stuff called 'Catalpol'? According to the article it's frequently used to treat Sjogren's but I've never come across it before?? Supposedly it's derived from the root of a Chinese plant called 'Rehmanniae Radix' ('Chinese foxglove' - love the herbal name !). Now it's been tested on mice with good results. See link:

https://sjogrenssyndromenews.com/2020/03/05/herbal-ingredient-catalpol-improves-sjogrens-symptoms-affecting-immune-cell-interactions-mouse-study/

[Carolina]

Some preliminary results of my pubmed research:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31951976

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31739380

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7023090/

there much more.  Search catalpol pubmed for scientific research papers.

Looks interesting.

Regards, Elaine

[Kathy57]

This looks very interesting but how do you get some?  Certainly not on Amazon.

Kathy

[Maria3667]

Yes Amazon is amazing but they don't have everything.. 

I searched for the plant name Rehmanniae Radix and Google threw some hits at me. Looks like it's often supplied as a dried plant root and brewed as tea. Maybe capsules are available too but my Chinese is as bad as my Japanese... Lol !