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

Ruscus aculeatus Part Used Medicinally.

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 The young, herbaceous tips of the flowering branches are collected in early spring, generally in May, as they contain most alkaloid at the close of the winter. They are used officially both in the fresh and dried state.

Broom Juice (Succus Scoparii) is directed to be obtained by pressing out the bruised, fresh tops, adding one-third volume of alcohol and setting aside for seven days, filtering before use.

For the expression of the juice the fresh tops may be gathered in June. Broom Juice is official in the British, French, German and United States Pharmacopoeias.

Infusion of Broom (Infusum Scoparii) is made by infusing the dried tops with boiling water for fifteen minutes and then straining. It was introduced in the British Pharmacopoeia of 1898, in place of the decoction of Broom of the preceding issues.
The Fluid Extract of Broom of the United States Pharmacopceia is prepared from the powdered dried tops.

The drug, as it appears in commerce, consists of very long, much-branched, tough and flexible twigs, which lie parallel with and close to one another and are about 1/25 to 1/12 inch thick, narrowly five-winged, with alternating, slight nodes, dark-green and usually naked; internally, greenish-white.
When fresh, the whole plant has a strong and peculiar odour, especially when bruised, which almost entirely disappears on drying.
The tops are dark green when fresh and dark brownish-green when dried.

The quality of the drug deteriorates with keeping, and this condition can be determined by the partial or complete loss of the slight, peculiar odour of the recently dried drug.
The deep yellow flowers, dried, are considerably employed separately, under the name Flores Genistae, or Flores Scoparii.
Broom Seeds are used sometimes and are as active as the tops. Water and alcohol extract their active properties.

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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