The red yeast rice is also known as "Dan Qu", "The Magical Qu". Medicine books which clearly documented the medical efficacy of red yeast rice could date back to Yuan Dynasty. Rui Wu, in his "the daily grass" (1329), has a record that "red yeast brewing wine, invigorate the circulation of blood and have a drug potential". Contemporary Sihui Wu who was the imperial physician on food and drinks said in his "the main point of food and drink" that "red yeast: good for spleen, benefiting the breath, and mild". Danxi Zhu, the most famous physician in Jin and Yuan dynasty documented in his "Ben Cao Yan Yi Supplement" that "red yeast rice, invigorate the circulation of blood and help digest the food, good for spleen and stomach, cure dysentery, clear food and drink(of the body), nice to be eat for a long time."　　
The famous herbal medicine works in Ming and Qing dynasties, such as Shizhen Li's "Compendium of Materia Medica", Ang Wang's "the Essential of Materia Medica", Yiluo Wu's "the New Materia Medica", Xiyong Miu's "the Overview of Materia Medica" etc, they all have more comprehensive records of red yeast rice as a drug and eating material.。
In the seventies of last century, a Japan Professor-Endo found "Monacolin-k" from the secondary level metabolites which could reduce serum cholesterol level in human body, caused the concern of the medical field on the red yeast rice. Furthermore, in 1985, U.S. scientists Goldstein and Brown found out the mechanism on how Monacolin-k inhibits the synthesis of cholesterol, and won a Nobel Prize then. Red yeast rice has thus become famous.　　
On the basis of inheriting the traditional production process of red yeast rice, our company uses modern biotechnology to breed good bacteria, and adopt modern automatic fermentation equipment for the production of functional red yeast rice series. Our functional red yeast rice containing rich biological activity of enzymes and a variety of physiologically active substances, monacolin-K (L, M, J, X), ergosterol, ?-aminobutyric acid, natural plant hormone etc, with a high nutrition, health, medicinal value, without any negative effects, is a natural, safe and effective health food as good as a pharmaceutical raw material.
■The Effectiveness of Health Care
Since ancient times, the red yeast rice is considered very precious as a health supplement and has a good therapeutic efficacy towards certain diseases in Chinese traditional medicine. According to the theory of traditional Chinese iatrology, the red yeast rice is sweet and warm, with the regulation of blood lipid concentrations and mitigates the effect of cardiovascular disease. Recent studies also show that monascus also have a powerful natural antioxidants enhance liver function and anti-cancer effects, such as flavonoid phenols (flavonoids), as well as unsaturated fatty acids with blood-lipid-lowering effect, which have good health care effect.
◆Lower blood cholesterol and prevention of cardiovascular disease: the active ingredient are monacolin K and L, M, J, X5 structural analogues.
◆Hypotensive: Has an effective ingredient: r-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and the amino-glucoside (Glucosamine).
◆Hypoglycemic: physiologically active substances are uncertain.
◆The anti-cancer effects: the active ingredients are monacolin K, flavonoid phenols (flavonoids), monascus orange pigment (monasco rubin.Rubropunctatin) etc.