Agrimophol

DescriptionThis substance is the active ingredient of agrimony, the dry part above the ground of Agrimonia pilosa Ledeb, which is distributed in most areas of China. Its same generic plants include Agrimonia pilosa Ldb. var. nepalensis (D.Don) Nakai, Agrimonia nipponica Koidz. var. occidentalis Skalicky, Agrimonia coreana Nakai, and Agrimonia eupatoria Linn. subsp. asiatica (Juzep.) Skalicky. In recent years, the role of agrimony in the treatment of cancer diseases and other aspects of attention has gradually attracted much attention.Agrimony also contains volatile oil, trace elements, agrimarin, agrimus lactone, tannin, sterols, organic acids, phenolic compounds, flavonoids and glycosides, and other compounds. Among them, the phenolic compounds mainly contain agrimony A, agrimony B, agrimony C, agrimony D, agrimony E, agrimony, pseudoephedrine, and so on.

HistoryIn folk medicine, the whole agrimony was used to stop bleeding and inflammation sterilization; its rhizome was used to treat intestinal bloody flux, the radical bud to expelling tenia. The clinical application and pharmacological studies have shown that agrimony root has a broad spectrum of anthelmintic effect with high activity and low toxicity.In the early 1970s, the Chinese scientists used lime milk extraction method or petroleum ether as a solvent to separate the extract from the grass buds and further extracted the main ingredient, agrimophol . Animal experiments and clinical applications show that the agrimophol has a broad spectrum of anthelmintic effect with high efficacy, as well as the function of killing schistosomiasis.The chemical structure of agrimophol was determined, and the synthesis was realized . It is synthesized from methyl phloroglucinol.Recent studies have shown that agrimophol has a significant anticancer effect .