transplanted in many other countries of the world including the united states it is described as having numerous medicinal uses particularly in traditional chinese medicine the kudzu extracts used in the present study were on the market from symrise gmbh amp co kg holzminden germany actipone pueraria root in the present specification and claims the extract will be referred to as u201c kudzu u201d in the development of the sophora kudzu embodiment of the present invention the measurement of antioxidant activity was made using the oxygen radical absorbance capacity orac assay which is described in detail in the preceding section relating to the sophora honeysuckle embodiment in the course of the work leading to the present invention mixtures of sophora and kudzu in a number of varying concentration ratios were tested for antioxidant effectiveness using the orac assay method to obtain net a u c values and the results of such testing for a first group of mixtures are set forth in the following table 2 a it will be noted that in the above table 2 a all numbers in the net sum sum 100 column are positive numbers indicating that all concentration ratios provided synergism a second group of sophora kudzu mixtures but with concentration ratios differing from the first was submitted to the same orac testing with the results being shown in the following table 2.