【Product Name】:Centella asiatica Extract

【Botanical Name】:Centella asiatica L.

【Part used】: Leaf/Whole plant

【Appearance】: Brownish Yellow powder

【Specification】: 4：1  10：1 /Regular Powder / Asiaticosides 10-80% / Triterpenes 10% / Madecassic Acid 80%

【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

Centella asiatica grows in temperate and tropical swampy areas in many regions of the world. The stems are slender, creeping stolons, green to reddish-green in color, connecting plants to each other. It has long-stalked, green, rounded apices which have smooth texture with palmately netted veins. The leaves are borne on pericardial petioles, around 2 cm.

The rootstock consists of rhizomes, growing vertically down. They are creamish in color and covered with root hairs. The flowers are white or pinkish to red in color, born in small, rounded bunches (umbels) near the surface of the soil. Each flower is partly enclosed in two green bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are minute in size, less than 3 mm, with five to six corolla lobes per flower. Each flower bears five stamens and two styles. The fruit is densely reticulate.

Chemical CompositionThe main active components are triterpenoid saponins, mainly including asiaticoside, hydroxyasiaticoside, asiatic acid, asiaticoside, shenkuniline and so on.