Lagerstroemia Speciosa Extract Corosolic Acid
What is Corosolic Acid?
Corosolic acid is a triterpene compound naturally present in Lagerstroemia indica. Its basic skeleton is the pentacyclic mother nucleus of polyhydropinene. It can exist freely in the plant body or in the form of saponin.
What are the benefits?
1. Hypoglycemic effect
Corosolic acid can regulate insulin and blood sugar levels in the body and has significant hypoglycemic effects. In animal experiments, it has a blood sugar-lowering effect on both normal rats and hereditary diabetic mice. In vitro and in vivo experiments show that corosolic acid achieves blood sugar-lowering effects by stimulating glucose transport and promoting the absorption and utilization of glucose by cells. This stimulating effect on glucose transport is similar to that of insulin, so corosolic acid is also called Plant insulin.
2. Anti-inflammatory effect
It has a significant inhibitory effect on inflammatory reactions, and its anti-inflammatory effect is stronger than commercially available anti-inflammatory drugs such as indomethacin. For example, it has a significant inhibitory effect on the inflammatory reaction induced by TPA.
It can be used to prepare drugs and health care products for preventing and/or preventing and treating liver damage, and has significant anti-liver damage effects.
4. Antioxidant and antibacterial effects
As a pentacyclic triterpenoid natural compound, corosolic acid has various pharmacological activities such as antioxidant and antibacterial activity, and has wide application potential in the fields of medicine, daily chemicals, food and other fields.
Application direction
Health food field: Corosolic acid, as a functional natural health food pharmaceutical raw material, has attracted widespread attention. Its effects of lowering blood sugar and losing weight make corosolic acid have broad application prospects in the health food market.
Cosmetics field: Although the application of corosolic acid in the cosmetics field is relatively less mentioned, its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties may make it have certain potential in the development of cosmetics such as anti-aging and skin repair.
