Hawthorn leaves, the traditional Chinese medicine name is the dried leaves of the rosaceae plant Shanli or Hawthorn. It is often harvested in autumn and dried in summer. Hawthorn is distributed in Northeast China and North China. Deciduous shoots, densely growing branches, with fine thorns and branches. Pilose; branchlets purple-brown, old branches gray-brown. Wing-shaped triangular shape to prismatic oval, 2-6cm long, 0.8-2.5cm wide, base truncated or wide truncated, each carved with 3 to 5 feathery deep lobes, base 1 pair of lobes are deep, with irregular edges Regular sharp jagged. The inflorescence of complex corymbs, peduncle and stalk are pilose; white, about 1.cm in diameter; there are pilose outside the calyx tube, and the inner and outer sides of the chrysanthemum are hairless or the inner surface is hairy. Pear fruit is dark red, nearly sunken. Flowering from May to June, fruiting from September to October.

Hawthorn leaves have the effects of activating blood stasis, energizing fruit, reducing turbidity and lowering lipids, and can be used to treat symptoms of qi and blood stasis, chest obstruction, heartache, chest tightness, qi stagnation, forgetfulness, dizziness, tinnitus, growth of blood and other symptoms. Similar nutritional and medicinal ingredients, including flavonoids, flavans, organic acids, tri-molecules, conventional bodies and general compounds, etc., especially flavonoids, flavonoids, pharmaceutical ingredients, etc. 3 times to 8 times, and the text content is about 10 times higher, and its application value is no less than that of hawthorn pulp.

Hawthorn leaves can be made into hawthorn leaf extract by some specific physical methods. These methods include water extraction, ethanol percolation, ultrasonic extraction, macroporous adsorption resin method, enzymatic method, ultra-high pressure extraction method, microwave Auxiliary extraction method. Each of these methods has its own advantages, and generally will be selected and operated according to the equipment at hand. The last two methods are generally used more frequently.

Nutra-Herb Ingredient Inc took a method to extract hawthorn leaves.

The reason why some industries are used to convert hawthorn leaves into hawthorn leaf extract is because the effect of hawthorn leaf extract is very useful. Hawthorn leaf extract is extracted from the dried leaves of the Rosaceae plant Shanlihong or Hawthorn. The main active ingredients are flavonoids, among which the content of vitexin rhamnoside and hyperoside is relatively high. It can reduce blood pressure, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, resist angina, increase coronary blood flow, hypolipemia, reduce triglycerides and cholesterol, resistance to hypoxia, inhibit or scavenge oxygen free radicals, resist lipid peroxidation, improve liver microcirculation and anti Inflammation damage and other effects have great clinical value in the cardio-cerebrovascular system.

The water solubility of hawthorn leaf extract is very, very good, suitable for food, beverage, health care products, feed and other industries. It can be used as additives, liquids, tablets, and capsules without any problems. This has led to a good market for hawthorn leaf extract.

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