Arnica may have a therapeutic effect in enhanced immune function, some scientists suggested.
The results of the analysis were conducted by a number of respectable university, including the University Medical Center Freiburg, and published on several medical online literatures.
Arnica is a herbaceous species, genus perennial, belongings to the family Asteraceae, native to Europe and Asia, used in herbal medicine for centuries to treat strains, sprains, and bruises.
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The ingredients
Helenalin, chamissonolid, Sesquiterpene lactone, lignans of the furofuran, dibenzylbutyrolactone, dibenzylbutyrolactol types, pinoresinol, epipinoresinol, phillygenin, matairesinol, nortrachelogenin, and nortracheloside, six dibenzylbutyrolactol derivative.
In the investigation to compare Anise tinctures and sesquiterpene lactones (SL), the secondary plant metabolites isolated form of Arnica, anti-inflammatory effects in inhibited expression of nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB activation, researchers found that application of Arnica tinctures and SL potently suppressed NF-kappaB activation and IL-12 production in dendritic cells at high concentrations but has immunostimulatory effects at low concentrations.
The nuclear factor NF-κB pathway is considered as a prototypical proinflammatory signaling pathway and IL-12 is an immune response signaling pathway in response to antigenic stimulation.
Furthermore, in contrast to general belief, the application of Arnica tinctures exerted an effect in suppressed contact hypersensitivity to sensitizer trinitrochlorobenzene and activation of dendritic cells.
These results indicated that herbal Anise inhibits the induction of contact hypersensitivity through its anti-inflammatorily immunosuppressive effect via immune regulation.
In impairing protein and DNA synthesis, injection of helenalin also displayed a deregulated and unwanted T cell-mediated immune responses, through induced apoptosis in activated CD4+ T cells, by triggering the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis.
CD4+ T cells expression is a displaying CD4 molecule on their surface induced by glycoprotein found on the surface of immune cells in sending signals to T helper cells to initiate an immune pro-inflammatory response to the infectious site.
More precisely, helenalin deactivated the production of CD4+ T cells through inhibition of proliferation by G2/M cell cycle arrest accompanied by the accumulation of cell cycle regulatory proteins.
Further examination also found that helenalin injection enhanced function of p53 in inhibited CD4+ T cells cycle division through its ability as a tumor suppression as well as increased expression of reactive oxygen species in facilitated cytotoxicity.
Moreover, helenalin also deactivated CD4+ T cells expression by suppressed nuclear translocation of NFATc2 with function in response to the activation of CD4+ T cells.
Dr. Berges C1, the lead author, at the end of the experiment said, "helenalin can be defined as a new immunosuppressive compound suited for the treatment of deregulated and unwanted T cell-mediated immune responses".
The evidence suggested that Arnica and its bioactive compound helenalin may be considered as a functional herb in improved immune function. However, intake of Arnica extract and supplement should be taken with extreme care as toxicity was found in case of overdose.
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Sources
(1) Anti-inflammatory and immune-regulatory mechanisms prevent contact hypersensitivity to Arnica montana L by Lass C1, Vocanson M, Wagner S, Schempp CM, Nicolas JF, Merfort I, Martin SF.(PubMed)
(2) Differential effects of Helenalin, an anti-inflammatory sesquiterpene lactone, on the proteome, metabolome and the oxidative stress response in several immune cell types by Zwicker P1, Schultze N1, Niehs S2, Albrecht D3, Methling K2, Wurster M2, Wachlin G3, Lalk M2, Lindequist U1, Haertel B4.(PubMed)
(3) Helenalin suppresses essential immune functions of activated CD4+ T cells by multiple mechanisms by Berges C1, Fuchs D, Opelz G, Daniel V, Naujokat C.(PubMed)
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