Product name: balloonflower extract

Product sources: this product is balloonflower Platycodon grandiflorum (Platycodon regulate Jacq.) A. DC. Dry root.

Plant polypetone is cylindrical or spindle, were slightly lower gradually fine, some have branches, and slightly distorted, long 7 ~ 20cm, diameter 0. 7 ~ 2cm. Surface white or pale yellowish white, not to the skin surface yellow brown to ash brown; With prestress and knit ditch, and a horizontal long lenticels sample spot mark and a root marks. Upside has horizontal grain. Some top have a short rhizomes or not obvious, on its several semilobar stem scars. Qualitative fragile, section of uneven, BuLei cambium ring brown, skin white, with cranny, wood department yellowish white. Odurless, tiny sweet taste after bitter. The spring and autumn second season, wash, remove excavation, while fresh regarding skinned out or not, dry skin.

Application parts: balloonflower Platycodon grandiflorum (Platycodon regulate Jacq.) A. DC. Dry root. The product specification: 15:1, 10:1

Product characteristic: tan powder, soluble in water, soluble in methanol, ethanol, and other organic solvent and dilute alkali, a weak acidity.

Effective ingredients: orange farming mainly contain rings terpene polysaccharide glucoside, other still contain polysaccharide, steroidal and sugar glucoside, fat oil, fatty acid, etc. Total saponins of radix platycodonis produced complete hydrolysis of saponins yuan have balloonflower saponins yuan (Platycodigenin).