Red Yeast Rice is made by fermenting whole kernel cooked rice with added red yeast. This is the same substance that gives Peking duck its red color. Red yeast rice has been used as a food preservative and a spice, since about 400 A.D. in China. It has also been used in Oriental medicine to relieve diarrhea and indigestion, and to improve circulation of the blood since about the same time. Red Yeast Rice has recently been popular in the western world when it was discovered how well it lowers cholesterol levels in the bloodstream.
During the fermentation process, the rice and red yeast form a substance called lovastatin. Lovastatin, together with other statins, is an excellent cholesterol-lowering medication. This naturally occurring lovastatin has a smaller dose than the prescription lovastatin, but is very effective anyway. Cholesterol Combo from Nepatica is a natural herbal supplement with Red yeast Rice, Garlic, Guggul, Apple Pectin and Cayenne.
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