Ingredients per 1 capsule HeparD
Magnesium 95 mg
Vitamin С 40 mg
Kudzu root powder 20 mg
Horseradish root powder 20 mg
Milk thistle flavolignans 8.8 mg
Zinc 5 mg
Vitamin В6 0.7 mg
Hypericin from Hypericum perforatum 0.065 mg

 

Magnesium

  • According to the US National Institute of Health, magnesium is need for more than 300 biochemical processes in the body.  It helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function, keeps heart rhythm steady, supports a healthy immune system, and keeps bones strong.
  • Magnesium also helps regulate blood sugar levels, promotes normal blood pressure, and is known to be involved in energy metabolism and protein synthesis.
  • There is increased recognition of the role of magnesium in preventing and managing disorders such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
  • Magnesium has a cardioprotective effect, providing a beneficial effect on heart rhythm disturbances, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, improving myocardial oxygen supply.
  • Magnesium exhibits vasodilator effect and helps reduce blood pressure.
  • Magnesium is an anti-stress macro-elements, has a normalizing effect on the nervous system and its higher parts (especially in combination with vitamin B6) with nervous tension, depression, neurosis.
  • Magnesium in diabetes prevents cardiovascular complications and, in combination with zinc, chromium, selenium improves the function of beta cells of the pancreas. In diseases of the respiratory system enhances the removal of the bronchi and bronchospasm.
  • Magnesium has a positive impact on the reproductive system. In pregnant women, magnesium deficiency prevents the development of the fruit (along with folic and pantothenic acid), the development of gestosis, premature births and miscarriages.

Vitamin C

  • Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) increases the body’s resistance to infectious diseases, regulates reductive-oxidative processes, carbohydrate exchange, blood coagulation and the regeneration of tissues.
  • Vitamin C is an antioxidant that protects the eyes, heart, and circulatory systems against free radicals.
  • Ascorbic acid is required for collagen synthesis and has a structural role in bone, cartilage and teeth.
  • Vitamin C may help decrease total and LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, as well as increase HDL levels.
  • Vitamin C may protect against cardiovascular disease.
  • As a powerful antioxidant, vitamin C may help to fight cancer by protecting healthy cells from free-radical damage and inhibiting the proliferation of cancerous cells.
  • Vitamin C may be useful as an immune stimulator and modulator.

Kudzu root powder

  • Kudzu plant is native to Japan and China, used in Ancient China to cure alcohol intoxication and dependency
  • Kudzu—recognized as a great remedy against alcohol dependency, that also helps alleviate hangover effect
  • Kudzu mitigates the effect of an alcohol-splitting ferment, due to which fact craving for alcohol ceases incessantly
  • Kudzu has cholesterol lowering properties
  • Used in  medical problems as:
    • igraine headaches
    • vertigo
    • cancer prevention
    • various allergies
    • gastrointestinal upsets
    • treatment for alcohol abuse
  • Kudzu contains many compounds, including a group known as isoflavones, which lower blood pressure, improve the cholesterol profile, reduce insulin resistance, and perhaps prevent the onset of diabetes
  • Kudzu plays a role in reducing binge drinking of alcohol
  • Taking kudzu to curb drinking leads to an increase in blood ethanol levels, which might reduce the desire for more alcohol

Horseradish root powder

  • Horseradish is often used in folk medicine for the prevention and treatment of many diseases and ailments
  • Horseradish consumed in small amounts to increase appetite
  • Horseradish is rich in potassium, calcium, sodium, sulfur, phosphorus, iron and other minerals
  • The structure of horseradish also includes vitamin C, ascorbic acid, volatile, essential oils mustard, sugar, starch, resinous substances, carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, PP
  • The content of vitamin C, horseradish is even ahead of lemon, and loses only rose hips and black currants
  • In fresh horseradish leaves a lot of carotene
  • As a medicine horseradish root has many curative properties:
    • strong antibiotic
    • expectorant
    • bronchodilatator
    • antibacterial
    • coronary vasodilatator
    • it increases the blood pressure
    • it heats up the body
    • stimulates the body’s immune system
    • anti-inflammatory
    • antiparasitic
    • antianemic
    • antiscorbutic
    • diuretic
  • It has a cardiotonic effect and is recommended to the people that suffer from high blood pressure

Milk thistle flavolignans

  • Milk Thistle is one of the most effective hepatoprotectors
  • It helps to neutralize toxins, it is applied at liver and kidneys malfunction, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
  • It is used in cases of liver diseases (cirrhosis, jaundice and hepatitis), gallbladder disease, and is claimed to protect the liver against poisons
  • Milk significantly increases the activity of detoxification and antioxidant systems of the liver, stimulates protein synthesis and regenerative processes, promotes regeneration of damaged liver cells
  • Milk thistle protects the liver against damage from toxins
  • Milk Thistle enhances the formation of bile and accelerates its excretion, thus normalizing the process of digestion and metabolism. This is the basis for the use of plants for acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholangitis, cholecystitis, as well as toxic liver damage due to poisoning by various chemicals, includingalcohol, poisonous mushrooms and drugs
  • Milk Thistle is also used for diabetes,chronic gastrointestinal diseases, varicose veins
  • Study did show activity against liver cancers

Zinc

  • Zinc supports normal growth and development during pregnancy, childhood, and adolescence.  It stimulates the activity of approximately 100 enzymes that promote biochemical reactions in the body.
  • Zinc supports a healthy immune system, is needed for wound healing, helps maintain the sense of taste and smell and is needed for DNA synthesis.
  • Zinc plays an important role in the hormonal functions in the body. It affects the production and functioning of insulin,and thus the entire spectrum of insulin-dependent processes.
  • Zinc is vital for the functioning of the thymus and the normal state of the immune system.
  • Zinc with vitamin A (vitamin C) prevents the formation of immune deficiencies, stimulating the synthesis of antibodies, and providing antiviral effect.
  • Zinc is essential for the functioning of the central nervous system, including the processes of remembering.

Vitamin B6

  • Vitamin B6 supports more vital bodily functions than any other vitamin.
  • It is vital in the metabolism of amino acids in the intestines. It allows the amino acids to be synthesized, broken down and absorbed.
  • The forming of histamine, serotonin, dopamine and adrenaline are dependent on vitamin B6.
  • Vitamin B6 helps to maintain healthy immune system functions, to protect the heart from cholesterol deposits, and to prevent kidney stone formation.
  • Vitamin B6 is indicated for the treatment of anemia, neurologic disturbances, seborrhoeic dermatitis, and cheilosis.
  • In combination with folic acid and vitamin B12, vitamin B6 lowers homocysteine levels which is an amino acid linked to heart disease and stroke, and possibly other diseases as well, such as osteoporosis, and Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Pyridoxine is required for the balancing of hormonal changes in women as well as assisting the immune system and the growth of new cells.

Hypericin from Hypericum perforatum

  • The main pharmacological effect of hypericum — the impact on the level of serotonin in the central nervous system, which determines the antidepressant properties of plants, primarily due to hypericin
  • St. John’s wort can be considered as herbal anti-depressant and used in conditions associated with neurotic disorders, with a climax
  • The plant also has anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, astringent, antiseptic and regenerative properties, so its use is effective in the treatment of ulcers, abscesses, burns, pyoderma, rhinitis, sinusitis, sores, hemorrhoids, diseases ofthe respiratory and genitourinary systems.
  • St. John’s wort stimulates the appetite, stimulates the secretory activity of various glands, including the digestive, has acholeretic effect
  • St. John’s wort can be used in the treatment of vitiligo