White crystal grain with odorless, slight sweet. Soluble in water, but insoluble in ordinary organic solvent such as ethanol, and faintly soluble in methanol.
Applications:
Chiefly used in medicine. It has important physiological functions to human body such as to take part in the detoxification of Liver and kidney, to protect liver from inflammation, to stimulate the increase of Bifidobacterium in the infant intestines, to treat rheumatoid arthritis and gastric ulcer, to control the growth of cell. It is as important material for the synthesis of antibiotics and anticancer drugs, and is also used in food, Food Additive and so on,is cheifly used in iatrical medicine(it can be direct compressible).