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How it works

"Bromelain has many properties useful clinically. It is anti-edema, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and anti-thrombotic. It is also pro-fibrinolytic, meaning that it can dissolve blood clots. As an anti-inflammatory agent, bromelain exerts activity widely throughout the body in respiratory, digestive, immune, and circulatory systems. Bromelain controls inflammation through its effects on biological pathways that regulate the synthesis of the immune system’s inflammatory molecules, cytokines. Clinical applications of bromelain include treatment of cardiovascular disorders, bronchitis, sinusitis, surgical trauma, thrombophlebitis, wound healing, osteoarthritis, and diarrhea. Researchers hypothesize that bromelain may also help with chronic fatigue, joint pain, and myalgia. In one study of children with sinusitis, bromelain shortened symptom duration."