Product: Astragalus Extract
English Name: Astragalus Extract
Chinese Name: Huang Qi
Latin Name: Astragalus membranaceus
Source]This herb is the root of Astragalus membranaceus Bge. Var. Mongholicus (Bge. ) Hsiao or Astragalus membranaceus (Fisch. ) Bge (family Leguminosae). It is produced mainly in Shanxi, Gansu, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia. It is dug in spring or autumn, sliced, dried in the sun.
Property: Sweet in flavour, warm in property, acting on the spleen and lung channels.
Active ingredients: Astragalosides detected by HPLC
Polysaccharides detected by UV

Specification:
Content: Astragalosides 0.3% 0.5%
Polysaccharides 30%, 50%, 90%
Appearance: Fine powder
Color: Yellow Brown
Particle Size: NLT100%80mesh
Order: Characteristic
Taste: Characteristic
Moisture: 5%max
Heavy metal: 10ppm max
Pesticides: Negative
Total Plate Count: 1000cfu/g max
Yeast / Mold: 100cfu/g max
E. Coli: Negative
Salmonella: Negative
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Negative

Shelf time: 2 years while properly stored.
Package: Aluminum foil bag or barrel of 25 kGS.

Medicinal Functions:
Effects: Tonifying the qi, lifting the sunken yang, strengthening the defensive energy and superficial resistance, promoting pus discharge and tissue regeneration, and inducing diuresis to cure edema.

Indications:
1. Deficiency of the spleen-qi and lung-qi or syndrome of sinking of qi of the middle-jiao.

For general debility due to deficiency of qi after an illness with manifestations of tiredness and lassitude, it is often used with ginseng, as in Extract of Ginseng and Astragalus;

If deficiency of qi is accompanied by deficiency of yang with manifestations of aversion to cold and profuse sweating, it can be used with prepaired lateral root of aconite, as in Extract of Astragalus and Aconite (Qi Fu Gao);

In cases of deficiency of qi and blood, it can be used with Chinese angelica root;

For deficiency of the spleen-qi manifested as poor appetite and loose stool or diarrhea, it can be used with white atractylodes rhizome;

For sinking of the qi of the middle-jiao characterized by visceroptosis;

Hysteroptosis and proctoptosis due to chronic diarrhea, it can be used with ginseng, white atractylodes rhizome, cimicifuga rhizome and bupleurum root, as in Decoction for Reinforcing Middlejiao and Replenishing Qi (Buzhong Tiqi Tang);

For hemafecia, metrorrhagia or metrostaxis and others due to deficiency and failure of qi in keeping the blood flowing within the vessels, it can be used with ginseng, wild jujube seed and longan arii, as in Decoction for Invigorating the Spleen and Nourishing the Heart (Guipi Tang).

2. Spontaneous sweating and night sweat resulting from general weakness and exterior deficiency due to deficiency of qi. For profuse sweating and susceptibility to common cold due to general debility, it is often used together with white atractylodes rhizome and ledebouriella root, as in Jade-screen Powder (Yupingfeng San) or used together with oyster shell, light wheat and ephedra root, as in Oyster Shell Powder (Muli San); For night sweat, it can be used with dried rehmannia root and phellodendron bark, as in Decoction of Chinese Angelica with Six Yellow Ingredients (Danggui Liuhuang Tang).