Why Try the Japanese and the Mexican Origin?
Polygonum cuspidatum is the scientific name given to the Japanese knotweed. It is one of today’s most important food supplement and therefore on very high demand. If you did not know, food supplements provide one of the largest industries and market. It is very lucrative and therefore it is now attracting very many players. There is no doubt that plant products have always been a good source not only of food supplements, but also medicines. Take for example the anti-malarial medicine known as artemesia, this had been used in China for more than 1,000 years yet was not fully recognized by the western science world. This is how the resveratrol from the Japanese knotweed has eluded the western medicine until recently. There is however one fact about using the plant medicines. It is that not all plants of the same species will have equal concentration of the active ingredient. This is because some of the ingredients used by these plants to make the active molecules in the medicine are draw
