Rutin

Plant: wild pansy (Viola tricolor, 25%, flower), Japanese cordwood (Styphnolobium japonicum, 15-20% flower or buds, 4% leaves), buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum, 2-8% leaves, 4-12% flower). flower buds, 4% leaves), common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum, 2-8% leaves, 4-12% flower), white mulberry (Morus alba, 6%, leaves), Canadian elderberry (Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis, 3.5%, flowers)[6], parsley (Petroselinum crispum, 3% leaves), water pepper (Persicaria hydropiper, 3% leaves). St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum, 2 %, upper plant parts).

• Rutin is produced by many plants as a pigment for protection against UV radiation
• Effect on humans: Antioxidant
• Starting points of rutin: the blood vessels and the intestine
• Effectiveness of rutin in pregnancy edema
• Cure of purpura, a vascular disease, by oral administration of rutin + vitamin C
• is used, mostly in the form of acid sodium salts, pharmacologically similar to hesperidin against capillary bleeding and all conditions associated with increased capillary fragility and membrane permeability.