PRODUCT: Bacopa Monnieri Extract
LATIN NAME: Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst.
PLANT PART USED: Entire herb
Bacopa
Monnieri, Latin name Bacopa
monnieri (L.) Wettst., has been used in traditional Ayurvedic
medicine as memory-enhancing, treating depression and alzheimer's disease,anti-inflammatory, analgesic,
antipyretic and sedative drug. It mainly contains two crystalline triterpene
saponins: bacoside-A & bacoside-B. The
two bacosides will be decomposed to glucose, arabinose & four kinds of sapogenins
(bacogenin-A1, bacogenin-A2, bacogenin-A3, bacogenin-A4)
via acid hydrolysis.