Product Name: Pygeum Bark Extract ,  Pygeum Africanum Extract

Botanical Name: Pygeum AfricanumExtract

Prunus African Extract

Herb Source: Pygeum africanum

Part Used: Bark

Active Ingredients: Phytosterols (as β--sitosterol), Total Sterols,pentacyclic triterpenes,ferulic acid esters

Specification: Phytosterols > 2.5%，Total phytosterols 2.5%, 13.0%, 15.0% 

Ratio: 4:1~20:1

Color: Yellow brown powder

Molecular Formula: C29H5O (β-Sitosterol)

Molecular Weight: 414(β-Sitosterol)

Certificate of Analysis:

 Function:

1. Phytosterols has a choleretic effect, increase bile secretion and promote bile excretion, can reduce organic and impurity in bile.
2. Phytosterols can increase the excretion of chloride. The diuretic effect is mainly outside of the kidney, to the kidney function is very weak.
3. Phytosterols has hemostasis effect, can accelerate the process of blood coagulation, increase blood levels of thrombin increased platelet count.
4. Phytosterols has lowering blood pressure and blood glucose effect, the fermentation preparation of corn stigma has a very significant reduction in blood sugar to rabbit.

Application:

1. Food Ingredient/Supplement: A major emerging application linked to the discovery of the hypo-cholesterolemiant effect of phytosterols. 

2. Cosmetics: A presence of phytosterols in cosmetic compositions for more than 20 years. A more recent trend for the development of phytosterols as specific cosmetic actives.Such as Emollient,Skin Feel, Emulsifier

Pharmaceutical Raw Material:

An application developed in the 1970s, based on the shift from saponins to phytosterols as bulk materials for steroid synthesis with initial work focused on chemically degraded stigmasterols and more recent developments concerning other phytosterols degraded by fermentation.