New trend of plant extracts

From the medical point of view, extracts are generally divided into plant extracts (including Chinese herbal extracts or herbal extracts), animal extracts Generally speaking, we can understand the extract as plant extract, Chinese medicine extract and animal extract 1 Plant extract plant extract is a product formed by taking the plant as the raw material, according to the needs of the use of the extracted final product, through the physical and chemical extraction and separation process, directional acquisition and concentration of one or more effective ingredients in the plant without changing the structure of the effective ingredients At present, the product concept of plant extracts is relatively broad According to different components of extracted plants, glycosides, acids, polyphenols, polysaccharides, terpenes, flavonoids, alkaloids, etc are formed; according to different properties of final products, they can be divided into plant oil, extract, powder, lens, etc The concept of plant extract can be accepted and recognized by all countries, and it is also a common expression of herbal medicine in all countries As early as 1999, the export of plant extracts in China has exceeded that of Chinese patent medicines In European and American countries, plant extracts and their products (plant medicine or food supplements) have broad market prospects, and have developed into an emerging industry with annual sales of nearly 8 billion US dollars Plant extracts in China are intermediates in general They are widely used in medicine, health food, tobacco and cosmetics There are also many kinds of raw materials used for extraction At present, there are more than 300 kinds of plant varieties entering industrial extraction 2 Traditional Chinese medicine extract (traditional Chinese medicine extract) traditional Chinese medicine extract is a new field differentiated from traditional Chinese medicine industry, which is a deep processing of traditional Chinese medicine Standardized Chinese herbal extracts refer to the extracts that meet certain quality standards according to the standardized production process It includes four aspects: the standardization of the production process of the original medicinal materials and extracts and the standardization of the quality of the original medicinal materials and extracts Chinese people's exploration of Chinese herbal medicine has gone through thousands of years According to legend, Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs and pioneered medicine Shennong was honored as the "emperor of medicine" Traditional Chinese medicine is mainly composed of plant medicine (root, stem, leaf, fruit), animal medicine (viscera, skin, bone, organ, etc.) and mineral medicine Because plant medicine accounts for the majority of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is also called Chinese herbal medicine At present, there are about 5000 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine used in various places There are countless prescriptions formed by combining various kinds of traditional Chinese medicine After thousands of years of research, an independent science, Materia Medica, has been formed The application theory of traditional Chinese medicine is quite unique Chinese medicine has four Qi and five flavors Four Qi, also known as four natures, refers to the cold, hot, warm and cool properties of the drug Five flavors refer to the pungency, acidity, sweetness, bitterness and saltiness of drugs Chinese herbal medicine has different Qi and taste, and its curative effect is also different There are many kinds of application forms of Chinese herbal medicine, such as Decoction made by decocting the useful medicine with water, removing the residue and leaving the juice, powder made by grinding, pill, plaster, liquor, tablet, powder, injection, etc There are many famous Chinese herbal medicines, among which ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, Polygonum multiflorum and wolfberry are the most famous 3 Animal Extract animal extract is a kind of extract with animal, part of animal tissues or organs as raw materials, mainly used for food, medical treatment and health care It is a new industry corresponding to plant extracts It used to be called biochemical products and biochemical APIs Its main categories are: amino acids, peptides, proteins, enzymes and coenzymes, polysaccharides, lipids, nucleic acids and their derivatives.