Introduction:
India Madder Root Extract Radix Rudix alizarin 10:1 TLC
India Madder Root Extract
Radix Rubiae Extract
Rubia cordifolia L. Extract
India Madder Root is the dried root and rhizome of Rubia cordifolia L. (Fam. Rubiaceae).
Action: To remove heat from blood and arrest bleeding, to eliminate blood stasis, and to stimulate menstrual discharge.
1) Product Name:Supply Rubia Cordifolia Extract/Madder Root extract powder
2) Latin name:Desertliving cistanche extract
3) Specification:5:1 10:1 20:1 30:1
4) Testing Method:TLC
5) Appearance:Brown powder
6) Introduction:The plant grows throughout India, in hilly districts upto 3500 meters height. It is a
perennial, herbaceous climber. The stems are often long, rough and grooved, with woody base. The leaves often in whorls of four.
They are 5-10 cm long, variable, cordate – ovate to cordate-lanceolate, rough above and smooth beneath. The flowers, 0.3-2.5 cm long, blackish or greenish black, in terminal panicled glabrous cymes.
The fruits are globose, fleshy, smooth, purplish black when ripe and shining.
The roots are 4-8 cm long, reddish, cylindrical, flexuous, with a thin red bark. Manjistin, garancin, orange red alizarin, Anthroquinones pentacyclic triterpenes, quinines, cyclic hexapeptides and diethylesters are the reported constituents.
Other compounds isolated are xantho-purpurin, or Purpuroxanthin and Pseudopurpurin, glucose, sucrose and ruberythric acid. Alizarin, purpurin, purpurin carbohydrate, quinizarine and christofin isolated from roots.
Antitumor cyclic hexapeptides – RA-V and RA-VII – isolated from roots. Skin diseases associated with edema and oozing, wounds and ulcers, acne, gives the skin an even tone and smoothness, powerful dye, imparting a reddish tinge to the skin and is used in dying the clothes,In diarrhea, in gastrointestinal ailments like loss of appetite, dyspepsia and worm infestations, as an appetizer, digestant, destroys ama and a vermicide, blood purifier, erysipelas, eczema, acne, scabies and allergic manifestations, epilepsy, improves the menstrual bleeding and relieves the pain in dysmenorrhea, cleanses the uterus-useful in postnatal ailments, oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea, as an adjunct in treating hepatitis, anti-diabetic and useful in treating urinary calculi, rejuvenative in pigment disorders of the skin and in general debility.
Application:
Madder root extract contains Shikonin, polyphenols, flavonoids, terpenes, active polysaccharides and other substances, which have anti-oxidation, cholesterol-lowering, antibacterial, gastrointestinal and other pharmacological activities.