Salvia Miltiorrhizae Extract
Salvia Miltiorrhizae also known as red sage, Chinese sage, tan shen, or danshen, is a perennial plant in the genus Salvia, highly valued for its roots in traditional Chinese medicine. It has shown efficacy in treating various markers of heart health, and is typically seen as a very heart healthy herb. Danshen works through a few primary ingredients, which all work synergistically on various parameters of heart and circulatory health. It is the largest herbal market in China, and is commonly sold as dripping pills (to be absorbed under the tongue) or as oral tablets. Both are effective, but the dripping pills appear to provide more of the active ingredietns.
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Specifications: 10%-98% Tanshinones; 0.3%~98% Tanshinone IIA ; 5%~60% Salvianolic acid B
Botanical name: Salvia miltiorrhiza
Active Ingredient: Tanshinones, Tanshinone IIA, Salvianolic acid B, etc
Characters: Red Brown powder
Odour: Characteristic
Mesh: 80
Composition
Over 80 different compounds have been identified in Danshen, 50 of which are water-soluble and the remaining 30 fat-soluble. The fat-soluble components are diterpene compounds belonging to the subclass ‘tanshinones’, or which the two main studies tanshinones are tanshinone IIA and cryptotanshinone. The water soluble components consist of various (up to 15) polyphenolic acids including salvianolic acids, protocatechuic aldehyde and acid, and danshensu (salvianic acid A). Other notable compounds are beta-sitosterol, Ursolic Acid, baicalin, and sometimes a Vitamin E or tannin content.
Out of all of these compounds, the main ones with pharmacological importance seem to be the salvinoic acids (including danshensu) and the tanshinones (including tanshinone IIA).
Recommended dosage
The Fufang Danshen Dripping pill is most commonly used as 30 pills spread over 3 times a day (10 each) taken either sublingually or orally.
Fufang Danshen tablets are taken 3 times a day, with 3 taken each time.
The standard therapeutic dose of Danshen is 6.56mg / kg bodyweight