Biejiajian pill (BJJP), composed of 23 Chinese herbs (including turtle shell, donkey-hide gelatin, nidus vespae, pillbug, ground beetle, dung beetle, saltpeter, bupleurum, scutellaria, pinellia, codonopsis, rhizoma zingiberis, magnolia officinalis, cassia twig, radix paeoniae alba, rhizoma belamcandae, peach kernel, cortex moutan, rheum officinale , trumpet creeper, semen lepidii, pyrrosia leaf, fringed pink)., showed promising results in a prospective randomized controlled trial
Adjusting either the total volume or the peptide amounts changes the final concentration proportionally
A 2017 study in Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology found that when the participants were supplemented with glutathione, the melanin index began to reduce significantly when compared to the placebo groups
N,N-Diacetyl-L-cystine (diNAC) was purchased from Targetmol (Wellesley Hill, MA)