Icariin is a wonderful and fascinating compound with a whole lot of health benefits. You might be wondering where you can find herbs with Icariin. Interestingly, we can only extract usable amounts of Icariin from one plant genus, Epimedium.
Epimedium, also known as Barrenwort or Yin Yang Huo, is a plant genus that is found mostly in China and other parts of Asia, including Japan. Traditional Chinese medicine has used the Epimedium genus for over a thousand years. The most commonly used plant species for extracting Icariin is called Epimedium sagittatum.[1]
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