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What Are Bioflavonoids and What Can They Do For Me?

by Carolyn Cooper

When you are seeking a bruising treatment that really works, or you are seeking a method that lets you work on healing bruises in particular, you will find that bioflavonoids are mentioned repeatedly. It seems like nearly everyone is talking about them, but what do you want to know about them? It’s always a good idea to try to learn more about the supplements that are you curious about, and there is a plenty of interesting information regarding bioflavonoids themselves as well as how they can provide you with an excellent bruise treatment.

Bioflavonoids originate from plants, where they aid the plant to do things like create pigmentation and protect the plant from bacterial attack or other forms of illness and harm. They are common in most plants, although they will vary in amount and intensity depending on what plants that you are examining. There is very strong experimental proof that points to them as being very helpful when it comes to helping our bodies to react appropriately against a host of things that include viruses, cancer-causing agents and allergens. They can also act in an anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and anti-cancer manner.

There have been more than 4000 bioflavonoids that have been identified and virtually all of them are useful to your body. In the past, they were formerly known collectively as Vitamin P, but as we get to know more about them, we are learning that there are several groups and that they all have their strengths.

Proanthocyanidins, which are abbreviated to PCO, are very potent and can be found in things like grape seeds or the bark of the maritime pine. Similarly, quercetins are the most active of the bioflavonoids and often make up a very powerful part of the other bioflavonoids. Citrus bioflavonoids are the ones that we most commonly come in contact with, and they are the ones that are often used to treat people who bruise easily; they may also be used for things like hemorrhoids, varicose veins and capillary permeability.

What part do bioflavonoids play in our ability to try to heal bruises, and why are they such an essential bruise treatment? Firstly, taking them and making certain that you are getting enough of them is an excellent way to heal your body when there has been any sort of physical trauma at all to it, and that is in essence, what a bruise is, whether you remember it happening or not. A bruise is basically a capillary under the skin breaking and seeping blood into the surrounding tissue, and taking the proper amount of bioflavonoids can help you heal the damage much more rapidly.

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3 Comments to “What Are Bioflavonoids and What Can They Do For Me?”

  1. on 29 Mar 2009 at 12:21 pmArtSmarts

    See - another excuse to flash that leg!! It’s funny how sometimes "minor" surgery like that can cause massive bruising - but having seen P have 2 lots of open heart that causes almost no bruising at all!!

  2. on 04 Apr 2009 at 1:25 pmBright Hub

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  3. on 04 Apr 2009 at 2:01 pmsano

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