Product name Epimedium Extract
Latin name Epimedium P. E.
Active Ingredient Icariin
Part used Whole Herb
Apperarance Brown fine powder
Product Content Icariin
Test Mothed HPLC
Product Origin Extracted from the Whole herb of Epimedium.

Description

Epimedium is a genus of twenty-one related plant species. The Chinese refer to epimedium as "yin yang huo", which has been loosely translated by some as "licentious goat plant" and explains why Western supplement companies have adopted the titillating name by which it is known in the U.S: (horny goat weed). Epimedium is grown as an ornamental herb in Asia and the Mediterranean region, and various species are used for medicinal purposes, including Epimedium sagittatum, Epimedium brevicornum, Epimedium wushanense, Epimedium koreanum, and Epimedium pubescens.


Action and Uses
Icariin, Treat angina, Increase coronal-vein blood flux Scientists demonstrate that the mechanism of the therapeutic action of icariin (ICA) on erectile dysfunction (ED) is inhibition cGMP-specific PDE5, a factor causing ED. The studies by Liao HJ demonstrate Chinese medicine epimedium exerted immuno-enhancing effect on the animal model of chronic renal insufficiency. The further investigation by him also suggests epimedium had therapeutic effect on sexual disorder and immunologic inadequacy in the patients of chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis.
Active ingredients
The Main contents are flavonoids, lignans, alkaloids, volatile oils, such as polysaccharide components. Flavone Mainly containd flavonoids Icariin, Icariin times glycosides, deoxy Icariin methyl,