“…Rhizoma Anemarrhenae (RA), known as 'zhimu' in China, which is listed in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, is used to remove heat, quench fire, promote the production of body fluid (China Pharmacopoeia Committee, 2000; Deng et al, 2005), and it has also been found to have antimicrobial activity, decrease the blood glucose level, inhibit platelet aggregation and carcinoma development, decrease radiation injury, and act as an anti-dementia agent (Lee et al, 2010;Nakashima et al, 1993;Tobari et al, 2000;Kang et al, 2011). However, it has been reported that the pharmacological effects of RA are closely associated with processing methods, and different processing methods result in different pharmacological effects.…”