ST JOHN'S WORT EXTRACT

St John

Product Introduction

St John's wort has shown to help people improve mood, sleeplessness and ease anxiety and nervous tension. Studies have also shown improvement in mild to moderate depression. There are virtually no adverse side effects associated with St John's Wort, unlike the pharmaceutical anti-depressant drugs. While St John's Wort is a thoroughly researched herbal remedy with an excellent track record.

Traditionally used as a sedative for the relief of restlessness or nervousness. Helps to treat symptoms of sleep disorders. Our product contains no artificial preservatives, colors, or flavours, wheat or yeast. The most common specification is 0.3% Hypericins by UV, but some customer wants to switch their material over to HPLC. So we just got the latest USP monograph, we can help our customer in the market for this special requirement.

Market Situation

Some of you may object that the price for St John's Wort is really high in 2013 and 2014, that was due both to a lower yield of the last crop and strog demand. Also there is a concern about the adulteration, the customer just find the materials with dyes. This has greatly affected the reputation of china's plant extract industry and natural extracts products, also undermines the customer's demand and order. In order to bring the customer's back again on St John's wort, our QC team will give you two simple way to identify the product in the market. Also the ID test report from Alkemist Labs is available if required.

The first method is to check the UV spectrophotometer You know the regular St John’s wort is tested by UV, in addition to taking the absorbance at 590, there should be an actual peak absorbance near 590nm, say 589 to 591. There is a concern if the peak near 625 is significantly larger than the
590.

The second method is to see the color of solution Accurately weigh 40.0mg and quantitively transfer into a 25ml volumetric flask. Add methanol to the flask and bring the volume up to the neck and sonicate for 15 minutes in an ultrasonic water bath. Allow to cool to room temperature and fill to the mark with methanol. Centrifuge for 5 minutes at 5000 rpm and transfer the supernatant into a glass scintillation vial.

It is the color of this solution that should be in the normal range of plant material color, from brown to green, there is concern if the color goes into the bluish green.

We Yaan Times Biotech is the manufacturer for St John’s wort since 2009, and will always be the expert on this product in china. We have the
technical advantage and the long-term supply ability in the market, our anunual output is around 30MT.

The new facility is in Yaan of Sichuan province, also in the process of CGMP from NSF China. The Kosher and Halal cert is available at our side, also we have the ISO22000 for our facility. Each year we will make the internal audit to make sure our quality control process staying compliant in the export market.

Our sales team are waiting for your any inquiry about our St John’s wort, pls feel free to contact with us.

Yaan Times Biotech Co., Ltd
Yaan angrecuture high tech park
Yaan City 625000
China
www. Times-bio.com
E: gm@timesbio.net
P:86-835-2246888
F:86-835-2323799