Osthole

Synonyms: 2H-1-Benzopyran-2-one, 7-methoxy-8-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-

CAS: 484-12-8

MF: C15H16O3

MW: 244.29

Appearance: Crystal powder, melt in aqueous slkali, ethanol, chloroform, acetone and so on, can't melt in water and sherwood oil

Extract source: fruit of cnidium monieri (L.) cuss

Functions: improve sexual function; strengthen memory, improve cognitive competence, cure Senile Dementia; anti-osteoporosis; anti-cancer, improve immunity; anti-virus, sterilize; vasodilation, anti-arrhythmia, analgesis

 Description

Osthole is extracted from the natural medicinal herb Cnidium monnieri. It is also found in several other plants. Osthole is a kind of new herbal pesticide with the features of high efficiency, low toxicity and environment-friendly.

As an insecticide, it is mainly contact poison and some stomach toxicity. It works on the nerve center of insect. It is good in controlling cabbage worm, aphids, cotton boll worm, tea geometrid and some other caterpillars.

As a fungicide, it has wide spectrum of protectant effect against crop fungi diseases. It has a very good effect on controlling powdery mildew on various crops.

what is cnidium monnieri

cnidium monnieri is annual herb,height 30-80cm. cnidium monnieri leaf is alternate,compundumbel inflorescence.cremocarp, ellipsoidal, 2-4 mm long, about 2 mm in diameter. externally greyish-yellow or greyish-brown; with 2outcurved stylopods at the summit, and sometimes with a fine fruit stalk at the base. dorsal surface of mericarps with five thin and longitudinal ridges, commissural surface flattened, with two brown and slightly raised longitudinal ribs. cnidium monnieri's pericarp lax and fragile, easily rubbed off, seed small,greyish-brown and oily. odour, aromatic; taste, pungent, cool and numb.

function of osthole:

- osthole can increase sperm secretion, stimulate sexual desire and has

aphrodisiac action.

- osthole can dry dampness and kills worms,expel cold and expel the wind,warm the kidney to strengthen.

- osthole has the function of relieving asthma and antifungus, antivirus.

 1.Common cold due to wind-cold pathogens manifested as headache, stuffy nose, etc;

    2. Headache, toothache, especially pain in the forehead and superciliary region; 

    3. Various infections on the body surface. For the treatment of acute mastitis, it is often used with fruit,          fritillary bulb and dandelion; for various kinds of sores and swellings, it is often used with honey                  suckle flower, trichosanthes fruit and other drugs;

    4. Leukorrhagia. For patients with profuse clear and thin leukorrhea due to cold-dampness, this drug is          often used with white atractylodes rhizome, poria and cuttlebone; for foul yellow thick leukorrhagia              due to damp-heat, it is used with phellodendron bark, plantain seed and other drugs;

application of osthole : hot sex women and animal plant osthole.osthole powder extract

- osthole is widely used in fields of heath products.can be used as the tonic product on the male impotence, active ingredients of medicines for gynecological diseases.

-osthole is widely used in fields of medicine products. common cnidium fruit extract also is used to the acute exudative skin disease.