Amomum Villosum, can it help you grow upwards?

Amomum villosum is available for sale: Sha Ren(concentrated Extract Powder)(amomum Villosum Fruit)(amomum Fruit / Grains of Paradise) Mayway-5330c.  A bunch of chinese studies where I can't get the full studies.  It may seem like I'm constantly doing products.  I actually do a lot of things but I only put things on the main page that people can take action on.

Amomum villosum induces longitudinal bone growth in adolescent female rats.

"Adolescent female Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 3 groups and treated for 4 days: control (distilled water, p.o.), recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH; 100 microg/kg, s.c.), and A. villosum (500 mg/kg, p.o.) groups. On day 3, tetracycline (20 g/kg, i.p.) was injected for growth plate identification. On days 2, and 4, 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) (50 mg/kg, i.p.) was injected to label proliferating cells. On day 5, tibias were dissected.
The rate of bone growth in the A. villosum and rhGH groups increased to (410 +/- 44) and (389 +/- 46) microm/day, respectively, as compared with the control (330.7 +/- 34.7) microm/day. The thickness of the growth plates also increased to (591 +/- 37) and (598 +/- 32) microm, respectively, as compared with the control (524 +/- 89) microm. The number of [proliferating] cells in the chondrocytes of the A. villosum and rhGH groups was also significantly higher (126 +/- 24) and (143 +/- 18) cells/mm2, respectively) than in the control (109 +/- 25) mm2. Insulin-like growth factor-1 and bone morphogenetic protein-2 in the A. villosum and rhGH groups were highly expressed in the growth plate as compared with the control samples, indicating increased bone formation."

"A. villosum significantly increased the tibial growth rate by 24.07% compared to normal rats. This rate was more than the 17.60% of the rhGH"

"While TGF-β is unable to initiate the entire osteoinduction cascade by itself, BMP-2 uniquely exhibits an ectopic bone formation property"

"long-term GH treatment is expensive, and the final height gains are small as compared with those of non-GH-deficient children"

Effects of Amomum villosum on longitudinal bone growth in adolescent rats

"The fruit of Amomum villosum has been used for an improvement of gastrointestinal motility in traditional Korean medicine. [A] herbal mixture containing A. villosum [is] used as medicine for malnutrition associated with growth retardation. This study was aimed to investigate the effect of A. villosum on longitudinal bone growth in adolescent rats. A. villosum was extracted with water for 3h at 100°C in a reflux apparatus. The A. villosum treated group (500mg/kg) and the control group (vehicle) were administered orally twice daily for 4 days. On day 3, tetracycline (20mg/kg) was injected intraperitoneally to form a fluorescent band on the growth plates. On days 2-4, bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) (50mg/kg) was injected intraperitoneally for labeling proliferating cells. A. villosum caused a significant acceleration of longitudinal bone growth, compared to control group. BrdU-positive cells were increased in the chondrocytes of the A. villosum group. The growth plate width was significantly increased, compared to control group. BMP-2 and IGF-1 were highly expressed in the hypertrophic and proliferative zone, respectively. A. villosum [may] increase longitudinal bone growth by stimulation of the chondrocyte hypertrophy and chondrogenesis, through regulation of IGF-1 and BMP signaling in the growth plate."

[Study on phenolic constituents of Amomum villosum].

"Five compounds were isolated from Amomum villosum. They were identified as: 3-ethoxy-hydroxy benzoic acid (1), vanillic acid-1-beta-D-glucopyranosyl ester (2), isorhamnetin-3-beta-D-glucoside (3), flavanocoumarin (4), isoflavanocoumarin (5)."  Benzoic Acid is in Curculigo Orchiodes and Benzoic Acid may be a BMP-2 stimulator.   Glucosides are derived from glucose.

According to Flavanocoumarins from Guazuma ulmifolia bark and evaluation of their affinity for STAT1., flavanocoumarin can inhibit Stat1.  STAT1 is a catabolic compound that may inhibit height.

isoflavanocoumarin and the glucopyranosyl ester are uncharacterized.

Amomum Villosum may increase height via Benzoic acid upregulation of BMP-2 or flavanocoumarin inhibition of STAT1.  Or, there may be some novel function of the other three compounds.  Also, since we can't access the full study we can't know if the increase in growth rate is due to the nutritional value of Amomum Villosum since calories do increase growth rate.

Longitudinal Bone Growth Stimulating Effect of Allium macrostemon in Adolescent Female Rats

"Allium macrostemon (AM) may affect bone growth by regulating bone formation and resorption. To examine the effect of AM on bone growth, 48 rats were divided into four administration groups in which either distilled water, AM (100 and 300 mg/kg), or recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH; 20 μg/kg) was administered for 10 days. On day 9, all animals were intraperitoneally injected with tetracycline hydrochloride (20 mg/kg), and 48 h after the injection, the rats were sacrificed. Their tibial sections were photographed to measure bone growth. Antigen-specific immunohistochemistry was performed to detect insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2). The food intake of the AM 100 mg/kg group was higher; however, the food intake of the AM 300 mg/kg group was less than that of the control group. The rhGH and AM 100 mg/kg groups showed greater rates of bone growth (359.0 ± 23.7 and 373.1 ± 28.0 μm/day, respectively) compared with the control group. IGF-1 and BMP-2 in the AM and rhGH groups were highly expressed. Indigestion at higher doses of AM led to nonsignificant bone growth in spite of increased IGF-1 and BMP-2 expression. Therefore, a suitable amount of AM could increase bone growth."

Allium marostemon is a similar compound that also increases IGF-1 and BMP-2.

"A. macrostemon at 100 mg/kg significantly enhanced the tibial growth rate by 11.44% compared with the control group"