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Plant Description
Cactus (scientific name: Opuntiastricta (Haw.) Haw. var. dillenii (Ker-Gawl.) Benson ), is a plant of the genus Cactus. It is also known as Cactus, Guanyin palm, Overlord, Fire palm, etc. It is a plant of the Cactaceae family. Cactus is a clump of fleshy shrubs, the upper part of the branches are broadly obovate, obovate-elliptic or suborbicular; flowers rotate, receptacle obovate; seeds mostly flat orbicular, slightly irregular margin, glabrous, light yellow-brown. Cactus like strong light, heat tolerance, drought, infertile, tenacious, growth temperature of 20-30 ℃. Mainly distributed in the southern and southeastern coastal areas of the United States, the West Indies, the Bermuda Islands and northern South America, southern China and Southeast Asia and other tropical and subtropical regions of arid areas.

Active ingredients
The stem and leaves contain triterpenes, malic acid, and succinic acid. The ash contains 24% potassium carbonate.

Pharmacological effects
1. Weight loss effect: Cactus contains a substance called malonic acid, which can have an inhibitory effect on the growth of fat; cactus contains triterpene saponins, triterpenes are essential substances for the human body, they can directly regulate the body's secretion function and regulate the activity of lipase, promote the rapid decomposition of excess fat, and can effectively prevent fat absorption in the intestine, inhibit fat synthesis in the liver, and fight against cholesterol in the inner wall of blood vessels It can reduce weight gradually. Not only does not damage the vital energy, but also replenish nutrition and increase the body's energy; malic acid is appetizing and stomachic, and can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, so as to play the function of laxative.
2, hypoglycemic effect: cactus contains a variety of flavonoids, such as quercetin-3-glucoside, etc., has a significant hypoglycemic effect, can effectively improve the glucose metabolism of type II diabetic patients. Cactus extract contains a substance called malonic acid, which can have an inhibitory effect on the growth of fat. Cactus also contains a variety of flavonoids, which have significant hypoglycemic effects and can effectively improve glucose metabolism in type II diabetic patients.
3. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects: cactus has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus mirabilis, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus cereus.
 

Company Introduction
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Business scope: Biotechnology, research and development of plant extracts (can be used in the field of pharmaceutical and health products, cosmetics, feed additives and biological pesticide production and development)
Main products: Eucommia extract - chlorogenic acid (5%-98%), ursolic acid (25%-98%), corosolic acid (1%-98%), bitter amygdalin (50%-98%), epimedoside (10%-98%) and other standardized high-purity plant extracts.

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