Centella asiatica Powder

English name: Centella asiatica powder& Gotu Kola powder

Botanical Latin name:  Centella asiatica（L.）Urb.

Use part: Stem leaf

Active ingredients: Asiaticosides

Detection methods: HPLC&TLC

Product specifications:

   Plant introduction:The herb is a whole grass of the umbelliferous family plant, or a whole grass with roots. More born in roadside, ditch, field edge slightly moist and fertile land. Distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui and other places.

Perennial creeping herb. Stem smooth or slightly hirsute, rooted at nodes. Simple alternate leaves, leaf blade rounded or reniform, 2 ~ 4 cm in diameter, margin obtuse teeth, smooth above, hair below; The leaves have long stalks and are 1.5 to 7 cm long. Umbel solitary, pedicel in axillary, shorter than petiole; The apex of each pedicel has 3 to 6 flowers, usually clustered into a capitulum surrounded by 2 ovate bracteoles; Calyx truncate; Petals 5, reddish-purple, ovate; Stamens 5, short, alternate with petals; Hypogonium, style 2, shorter, stigma less conspicuous. The double suspension fruit is flat round, smooth, the main edge and the secondary shuttle are equally obvious, and the main edge is connected by a network. Flowering in summer.

Dry whole grass more wrinkled into a group, the root cylindrical, 3 ~ 4.5 cm long, about 1 ~ 1.5 mm in diameter, light yellow or grayish yellow, with longitudinal wrinkles. The stem is slender, curved, pale yellow, with obvious rootlet residue or residual rootlet at the node. Leaves more wrinkled, light green, round or reniform, 2 ~ 4 cm diameter, margin with blunt teeth, underside with fine hairs. The petiole is 1.5 to 7 cm long, often twisted, and has a membranous sheath at the base. The air is specific, the taste is mild.

Active Ingredients:Contains a variety of α-aromatic alcohol type triterpenes, including asiaticoside, ginseng cumniside, isoginseng cumniside, hydroxyasiaticoside, bortheroside, bortheroside and bortheroic acid, as well as motor snow oxalic acid. In addition, it also contains raceminositol, asiaticose, wax, carrot hydrocarbons, chlorophyll, kaempferol, quercetin, glucose, rhamnose-flavonoid glycosides.

Product application: With the further in-depth study of the pharmacological effects of the active components of Centella asiatica buds, new pharmacological effects are constantly being discovered, making it have broad application prospects in medicine, daily chemicals, health products, feed additives and many other aspects.