"Quercetin: Natural plant compound bolsters wellness" - Article from the April 2008 Edition of the Nutrition Science News

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What is Quercetin? Pronounced Kwûr'sĭ-tĭn, Quercetin is a type of plant-based chemical (phytochemical) known as a flavonoid or more commonly antioxidant. Good sources of natural quercetin include apples, onions, teas and red wines. Various forms of quercetin have been isolated and are now being sold as dietary supplements. Read more about what is Quercetin.

Quercetin is found to be the most active of the flavonoids in studies, and many medicinal plants owe much of their activity to their high quercetin content. Quercetin has demonstrated significant anti-inflammatory activity because of direct inhibition of several initial processes of inflammation. For example, it inhibits both the manufacture and release of histamine and other allergic/inflammatory mediators. In addition, it exerts potent antioxidant activity and vitamin C-sparing action.

Quercetin also shows anti-tumour properties. A study in the British Journal of Cancer showed that, when treated with a combination of quercetin and ultrasound at 20 kHz for 1 minute duration, skin and prostate cancers show a 90% mortality within 48 hours with no visible mortality of normal cells. Note that ultrasound also promotes topical absorption by up to 1,000 times making the use of topical quercetin and ultrasound wands an interesting proposition.

Recent studies have supported that quercetin can help men with chronic prostatitis, and both men and women with interstitial cystitis, possibly because of its action as a mast cell inhibitor.

Quercetin may have positive effects in combating or helping to prevent cancer, prostatitis, heart disease, cataracts, allergies/inflammations, and respiratory diseases such as bronchitis and asthma. It also has antidepressant properties. ¹ Read more about the health benefits of quercetin.

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³Material from the Wikipedia Wiki article "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavonoid"

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