Anti-inflammation, anti-platelet aggregation, anti-fungal

A method of preparing an extract from Zingiber officinale, which is potent in anti-inflammation, anti-platelet aggregation and anti-fungal activity, which includes the following steps: prepare a crude liquid from rhizomes of ginger by extraction with an organic solvent or supercritical CO2 or by distillation with steam; introducing the crude liquid to a reverse phase chromatography column, and eluting the column with water, a first eluent and a second eluent having a polarity weaker than that of the first eluent but stronger than that of chlorofrom, so that a first eluate resulting from elution of the first eluent and a second eluate resulting from elution of the second eluent are obtained; removing the first eluent and the second eluent from the first eluate and the second eluate by evaporation, respectively, so that a first concentrated eluate and a second concentrated eluate are obtained as the potent extract. The final product or the crude liquid obtained in the first step may be incorporated into a pharmaceutical composition together with a suitable carrier of diluent.

Preclinical

US6274,177B1; US6,946,153B2; NL1018234; CH692272A5; GB2366565

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