The Health Benefits of Honokiol from Magnolia Plant

The plant genus Magnolia includes over 200 species of flowering plants that grow in Asia and the Americas. Magnolias have been around since the time of dinosaurs — before bees existed! — and are thus pollinated by beetles. In the American South, the trees are treasured for their fragrant blooms. But other aspects of magnolias appear to be even greater treasures.

“Magnolia officinalis and Magnolia obovata bark extracts have been used for thousands of years in Chinese and Japanese traditional medicines and are still widely employed as herbal preparations for their sedative, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibiotic, and antispastic effects,” write A. Sarrica …read more