diosgenin

All estrogen products are chemically synthesized, primarily from an active ingredient called diosgenin, a molecule extracted from the tubers and flowers of various plants including Dioscorea, a wild yam.

Staness Jonekos: 10 Hormone Therapy Facts Every Woman Should Know 2010

In the 1950s, barbasco was heavily harvested for diosgenin, which is an ingredient of contraceptive products.

Tropical Humid Forests ecoregion (CEC) 2008

All estrogen products are chemically synthesized, primarily from an active ingredient called diosgenin, a molecule extracted from the tubers and flowers of various plants including Dioscorea, a wild yam.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

At Syntex, Djerassi set out to see if diosgenin could be made to yield other steroids, which do not actually exist in nature, but which retain the biological activities of progesterone and are also orally active.

Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

At Syntex, Djerassi set out to see if diosgenin could be made to yield other steroids, which do not actually exist in nature, but which retain the biological activities of progesterone and are also orally active.

Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

After having his proposals for the large-scale production of human steroids from diosgenin turned down by U.S. pharmaceutical companies, Marker moved to Mexico and began his own, home-based, small scale production.

Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

After having his proposals for the large-scale production of human steroids from diosgenin turned down by U.S. pharmaceutical companies, Marker moved to Mexico and began his own, home-based, small scale production.

Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

Marker had published various studies on diosgenin, a saponin isolated from a Mexican yam species of the genus Dioscorea, and had discovered how to synthesize the human hormone testosterone and progesterone from diosgenin.

Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

Marker had published various studies on diosgenin, a saponin isolated from a Mexican yam species of the genus Dioscorea, and had discovered how to synthesize the human hormone testosterone and progesterone from diosgenin.

Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

Fenugreek tea contains diosgenin, a semi-synthetic form of the female sex hormone estrogen and, when prepared as a special tea, is used for natural breast enlargement.

Thinning The Blood, And More, With Fenugreek 2007