【Product Name】:Horny Goat Weed Extract   

【Botanical Name】:Epimedium Grandiflorum or Epimedium Sagittatum

【Part used】:Leaf

【Appearance】: Brownish Yellow or White or Light Yellow powder

【Specification】: 4：1  10：1 /Regular Powder / Icariin 5-98% / Icariins 5-60%  

【Storage Period】: 24 Months

【Package】: 1kg/bag 25kg/drum

【Test Method】: HPLC

【Storage Conditions】: Store in cool and dry places. Keep away from strong light and heat.

Description

Perennial herb. The rhizome is creeping, nodular, hard, and has many slender fibrous roots. Basal leaves 1 to 3, 3 out of compound leaves, with long stalks; leaflets ovate, narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, apex acutely or acuminate, with fine bristles on the edge, deep heart-shaped at the base, lateral The base of the leaflet is significantly asymmetrical, the outside shape is oblique and long, and it is pointed ear-like, the inside is short, nearly round, the leaf is leathery, the upper part is gray-green, without hair, the lower part is lighter, and the close bristles or Fine hair. Stem leaves are often 2, born on the top of the stem, similar in shape to basal leaves. Many flowers, clustered into racemes or lower branches to form panicles; inflorescence rachis and pedicel glabrous or with a few glandular hairs; flowers are small; sepals 8, outer wheels, ovate, small, with purple spots outside , Easy to fall off, 4 pieces of inner ring, larger, white, petal-like; petals 4, cystic, with a distance shorter than the sepals of the inner ring, or nearly without distance. The pods are ovoid, with persistent styles at the apex, short mouth-shaped; the seeds are several, kidney-shaped, black, veined. Flowering from February to March, fruiting from April to May.

Chemical Composition

It mainly contains icariin, icariin I, sauroside A, sauroside B, sauroside C and so on.