Eucommia leaves extract

Detailed Description

Eucommia is mainly grown in temperate regions of Asia mostly in China such as Guizhou, Sichuan,Hunan. The medicinal use of Eucommia ulmoides dates back to ancient Traditional Medicinal Chinese (TCM) including the texts of Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic (Huangdi Neijing) (475-221BC) .

Functions

1. Its decoction can significantly reduce the activities of mice;
2. It can inhibit the delayed-type hypersensitivity induced by DNCB;
3. It can resist hydrocortisone’s immunosuppressive effects, shift the balance of cell-mediated immunity, enhance the tumor-bearing mice’s ability of increasing glycogen content, and raise blood sugar;
4. All its raw, fried, and sand-scorch decoctions have significant antihypertensive effect to rabbits and dogs. But the raw one has weaker effect. And effect of the other two is almost identical and their absolute value is equal to twice of the raw version; all of them can fight against the effect of hypophysin on isolated uterus – significantly inhibit its spontaneous activity and reduce its frequency and contraction strength.

Applications

1.As raw materials of drugs for anticancer, anti-mutagenic and cardiovascular, it is mainly used in pharmaceutical field;
2. As active ingredients of products for antibacterial, boosting the immunity, lipid-lowering and blood sugar lowering, it is mainly used in health product industry;
3. As product for dispelling acne, soothing and anti-inflammatory, it is mainly used in cosmetic industry;
4. As a toothpaste additive and active ingredients of disinfectant products, it is used in daily chemicals industry.