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Item
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Specification
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Name
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Product Name: Cat's Claw Extract
Latin Name in Botany: Uncaria rhynchophylla(miq.)jacks |
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Part used
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Whole herb
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Analysis
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Specification
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Appearance
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Fine Brown yellow powder
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Odor
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Characteristic
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Taste
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Characteristic
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Alkaloids
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≥5% HPLC
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Ash content
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≤5.0%
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Loss on Drying
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≤5.0%
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Sieve analysis
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100% pass 80 mesh
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Bulk Density
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45-55g/100mL
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Extract Solvent
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Water & Alcohol
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Heavy Metal
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10ppm
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As
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2ppm
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Residual Solvents
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Eur.Pharm.2000
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Microbiology
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Total Plate Count
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1000cfu/g
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Yeast & Mold
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100cfu/g
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E.Coli
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Negative
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Salmonella
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Negative
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Pesticides
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Negative
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Staphylococcus
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Negative
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Flavacol
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Negative
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Packing
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1gram,10gram,50gram,100gram,500gram,1kg,10kg,25kg
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Shelf life
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2 years
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Function
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1)Peruvian natives use cat's claw to treat inflammatory diseases like arthritis, to clean out the digestive tract and to treat cancer. It has also been used to treat dysentery, recovery from childbirth, and women's hormone imbalances.
2)In laboratory studies, cat's claw normalizes some immune system functions. It also appears to help reduce blood clotting. We do not know if these laboratory results will carry over to studies in people. 3)There have been some small human studies, including in people with AIDS. The results were inconclusive. In one study, cat's claw speeded the healing of people with herpes simplex virus (cold sores or genital herpes) and herpes zoster virus (shingles). A company that makes a purified version of cat's claw did this study. No independent researchers have gotten similar results. |
