Vitamin C is regarded as a "cold buster" by many people, and even a mother said that the baby didn't catch a cold after taking vitamin C supplements. Is it really amazing? What are the magical effects?
The magical effect of vitamin c
Vitamin C, scientific name ascorbic acid, is a highly effective antioxidant. Vitamin c does have some magical effects, because it participates in some reactions in the human body, such as:
Promote collagen synthesis and prevent scurvy;
It can promote hydroxylation and detoxification of organic substances or poisons, and enhance the detoxification process of drugs or poisons;
Can promote antibody formation;
It can promote the absorption of iron (it is an important auxiliary drug for treating anemia).
Can reduce the toxic effects of heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic on the body;
It can remove all kinds of free radicals in the body and help the human body to relieve symptoms or accelerate healing when it is sick.
Does vitamin c have a therapeutic effect?
Is it true that the legendary vitamin C has a therapeutic effect on burns, colds and allergies?
● Burn (effective)
Can accelerate skin heal after scald.
Vitamin C can regulate the synthesis of intercellular substance and collagen, which is an essential component of fibrous tissue and hard tissue (bone and cartilage) matrix in blood vessels and scars. So it really helps to accelerate the healing of skin after scald.
● Allergy (effective)
Mainly for allergic purpura and allergic rhinitis.
As a strong reducing agent, vitamin C can prevent related cells from producing oxygen free radicals and protect vascular endothelial cells from oxidative damage. It can improve and influence the synthesis of immunoglobulin by lymphocytes; It is helpful to the synthesis of vascular collagen, reduce capillary permeability, reduce platelet aggregation, make blood flow unobstructed, reduce exudation and promote the recovery of allergic purpura. Because it can inhibit the production of histamine in the body, improve capillary permeability, reduce the exudation of tissue fluid, and help to alleviate the symptoms of allergic rhinitis such as runny nose and sneezing.
● Cold (can't treat a cold)
Unfortunately, vitamin C can only help relieve cold symptoms, but it has no therapeutic effect.
It can only be said that antihistamines have a weak antihistamine effect after being used for a period of time (histamine can make people sneeze, have a runny nose and have a stuffy nose), and antihistamines are a drug for treating colds, which can alleviate the above cold symptoms. So vitamin C can only help relieve some cold symptoms.