Butcher's Broom is so named because the mature branches were bundled and used as brooms by butchers to clean their cutting blocks.

Phytochemical and Constituents:Butcher's broom.

Butcher's Broom Extract INCI Name Ruscus Aculeatus Extract CAS 84012-38-4 EINECS ELINCS No 281-682-9 VEGF Booster Butchers Broom Root Extract preparation photo picture image Butcher's broom roots and rhizomes contain: Approximately 10% saponins, including the steroidal saponin glycosides ruscogenin and neoruscogenin; steroidal sapogenins; sterols, triterpenes, flavonoids including rutin, coumarins, sparteine, tyramine, and glycolic acid. Although both the above and below ground parts of the plant contain ruscogenins, the concentration is higher in the root, the part of the plant traditionally used medicinally. The ruscogenins from butcher's broom show marked anti-elastase activity in vitro but are inactive against hyaluronidase. Ruscogenin and neoruscogenin are described as being similar to diosgenin, found in wild yam.

Chemicals and Nutrients: Aluminum, Calcium, Chromium, Cobalt, Fats (2%), Fiber (11%), Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Potassium, Protein (1%), Rutin, Silicon, Sucrose (3.5%)

An herb containing the active ingredient ruscogenin, butcher's broom has been used for many decades as a trusted herb for hemorrhoids. Butcher's broom acts as a natural vasoconstrictor with anti-inflammatory properties. Butcher's broom also has the unique ability to strengthen and tone veins.

Broom contains two principles on which its activity depends. Sparteine, discovered in 1851 by Stenhouse, of which about 0.03 per cent is present, is a transparent, oily liquid, colourless when fresh, turning brown on exposure, of an aniline-like odour and a very bitter taste. It is but slightly soluble in water, but readily soluble in alcohol and ether. Stenhouse stated that the amount of Sparteine in Broom depends much upon external conditions, that grown in the shade yielding less than that produced in sunny places.

Scoparin, the other principal constituent, is a glucoside, occurring in pale-yellow crystals, colourless and tasteless, soluble in alcohol and hot water. It represents most of the direct diuretic activity of Broom.

Volatile oil, tannin, fat, wax, sugar, etc., are also present. Broom contains a very large quantity of alkaline and earthy matter, on incineration yielding about 3 per cent of ash, containing 29 per cent of carbonate of potash.

Sparteine forms certain salts of which the sulphate (official in the British and the United States Pharmacopceias) is most used in medicine. It occurs in colourless crystals, readily soluble in water.

Oxysparteine (formed by the action of acid on Sparteine) is used as a cardiac stimulant.

The flowers contain volatile oil fatty matter, wax, chlorophyll, yellow colouring matter, tannin, a sweet substance, mucilage, albumen and lignin. Scoparin and the alkaloid sparteine have been separated from them.

Reference:

1.Butcher's Broom is so named because the mature branches were bundled and used as brooms by butchers to clean their cutting blocks.

last edit date:10th,Mar.2010.

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Name:Butcher's Broom Extract
Serie No:P087
Specifications:10:1.TLC
INCI Name:RUSCUS ACULEATUS EXTRACT
EINECS/ELINCS No.:281-682-9
CAS:84012-38-4
Chem/IUPAC Name:Ruscus Aculeatus Extract is an extract of the rhizomes of the butcherbroom, Ruscus aculeatus, Liliaceae

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