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Medicine Raw Material Triptolide Lei Gong Teng/Thunder God Vine Tripterygium Wilfordii Extract
Thunder God Vine, also called Tripterygium Wilfordii that is a vine used in traditional Chinese medicine for treatment of fever, chills, edema and carbuncle. Tripterygium Wilfordii recently has been investigated as a treatment for a variety of disorders including rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, chronic hepatitis, chronic nephritis, ankylosing spondylitis, polycystic kidney disease as well as several skin disorders.
Tripterygium Wilfordii is also under investigation for its apparent antifertility effects, which it is speculated, may provide a basis for a Male oral contraceptive. Triptolide, a diterpene triepoxide, is a major active component of extracts derived from Tripterygium wilfordii. Triptolide has multiple pharmacological activities including anti-inflammatory, immune modulation, antiproliferative and proapoptotic activity.
Items | Standards | Results |
Physical Analysis | ||
Description | Brown Yellow Powder | Complies |
Assay | 10:1 | Complies |
Mesh Size | 100 % pass 80 mesh | Complies |
Ash | ≤ 5.0% | 2.85% |
Loss on Drying | ≤ 5.0% | 2.82% |
Chemical Analysis | ||
Heavy Metal | ≤ 10.0 mg/kg | Complies |
Pb | ≤ 2.0 mg/kg | Complies |
As | ≤ 1.0 mg/kg | Complies |
Hg | ≤ 0.1 mg/kg | Complies |
Microbiological Analysis | ||
Residue of Pesticide | Negative | Negative |
Total Plate Count | ≤ 1000cfu/g | Complies |
Yeast&Mold | ≤ 100cfu/g | Complies |
E.coil | Negative | Negative |
Salmonella | Negative | Negative |
1. In both animals and humans, low doses of various Tripterygium extracts can produce significantly lowered sperm density and motility indices without major side effects;
2. Many of the side effects are caused by the other active compounds found in the plant, and do not appear when a pure extraction of the antifertility agents is used;
3. In addition, the dose required to lower fertility is significantly lower than the standard medicinal dose.
1. Widely used in pharmaceutical field;
2. Widely used in health care products.
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