What is Epimedium Extract?

 

Epimedium is a kind of commonly used traditional Chinese medicine in China, has the very high medicinal value. Taste bitter, suitable for insomnia. Perennial herbaceous plants, plant 20 -- 60 cm tall, short, stout, lignification, dark brown, upright stems, and edges, glabrous, usually withoutbasal leaf.

 

Icariin 50 60 80 98 epimedium extract gnc is yellow brown powder, soluble in ethanol, ethyl acetate. Icariin powder insoluble in water,and insoluble in ether, benzene, chloroform.Reaction with ferric chloride green, hydrochloric magnesium powder, epimedium extract icariin action was orange and red.

 

Specifiaction:

 

Epimedium Extract : icariin powder 10%,20%,40%,50%,90% by HPLC

 

Application: 

 

1. Applied in food field, epimedium extract icariin powder is mainly used as food additives;

2. Applied in pharmaceutical field, epimedium extract icariin powder is mainly used as raw material;

3. Applied in health product field, epimedium extract icariin powder is good for cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Icariin
Epimedium Flavone
Epimedium extract  Icariin
[Latin Name]Epimedium grandiflorum 
[Appearance]yellowish-brown powder 
[Active Ingredients]Icariin
[Specification] 5%-98% Icariin test by HPLC
[CAS No].489-32-7
Epimedium is a plant that comes from the botanical family 'Berberidaceae'. also known as barrenwort, fairy wings or the more common 'horny goat weed' because of its proven aphrodisiac properties. The Epimedium plant is said to contain certain chemical compounds, otherwise known as flavonoids that has antioxidant properties. Basically, icariin helps in the efficient transmission of an important cellular signaling molecule, Nitrous Oxide, which in turn increases the free form hormones.
Basic information:
  
 
Main ingredient
 Icariin, the Active ingredient of Epimedium Extract, is known as a 'prenylated diglycoside of kaempferol'. Specifically, the basic structure has a prenyl- group attached to the kaempferol molecule (depicted below, its the bendy tail heading upwards from the hexagon) and has two sugar molecules attached to it; a glucose molecule at R2 and a rhamnose molecule at R1. The other three popular molecules found in Horny Goat Weed, Epimedin A-C, have the same following backbone but just different sugars at R1 and R2.
 
Main Function
 1.      Aphrodisiac: Epimedium has long been considered as an extremely potent aphrodisiac. The compound icariin that is found in epimedium works by relaxing muscles by increasing the nitric oxide levels and increasing the blood flow to the sexual organs, thereby increasing libido and desire. This is definitely one of the main benefits of epimedium.
2.      Controlling Asthma: A Chinese study has shown that Epimedium can be helpful in alleviating airway inflammation by decreasing the activities of some proteins that are responsible for the production of leukocytes in inflammatory areas in the lung, thereby helping with controlling the effects of asthma.
3.      Anti-Cancer: Epimedium extract benefits have been studied in detail on the cancer cells and have been proven to be effective in decreasing the ability of invasion of cancer cells as well as the migration of the metastatic cancer cells.
4.      Erectile Dysfunction: Apart from being an Aphrodisiac, epimedium has been effectively used in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. In an Italian study, it was reported that icariin has the same effect on the erectile tissue in penis as Viagra.
5.      Memory Enhancer: Studies have shown that the administration of icariin has been able to increase the blood flow to the brain and showed improved learning ability and memory. The effect is mainly attributed to the plant's antioxidant properties and its effect on the nerve impulses as well as the circulatory system.
6.      Osteoporosis: Icariin has been proven to promote the growth and development of the osteocyte cells and contributing to bone remodeling, thereby indicating that it can be used as an effective drug in the control and treatment of osteoporosis.
7.      Women's Sexual Health: Whereas the effects of Icariin on Men's sexual health and performance is well known and documented, the administration of icariin can also improve the sexual health and performance of women by a huge margin, mostly owing to the production of Nitrous Oxide that improves the flow of blood to the sexual organs, clitoris and vagina. Icariin also have properties to relieve Menopausal Symptoms in Women, Epimedium has also shown to encourage balanced estrogen and estradiol levels in women, providing a beneficial effect for menopausal women.
Application
 
1. Applied in pharmaceutical field, it is mainly used as pharmaceutical materail to treat asthenia of kidney, impotence, spermatorrhea, prospermia, cold extremities, acroanesthesia or convulsion, etc
2. Applied in the field of health care products, it was used in capsules, health food, oral liquid, health care wine and other alcoholic beverages, which has good health-care effect on human cardiovascular and endocrine system, delaying aging.
 

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