An improved process for producing various types of cannabis extract from harvested cannabis wherein a quantity of harvested cannabis, which typically includes the inflorescence, floral leaves, and small stems of a flowering cannabis plants, is frozen and subjected to cryogenic grinding to produce pulverized cannabis. The pulverized cannabis is then subjected to alcohol extraction to produce an initial cannabis extract which is filtered to yield a remainder fraction and a filtrate. The remainder fraction potentiates the activity of cannabis formulations while the filtrate can be subjected to one of several forms of further processing according to the desired chemical profile of the final product.

A traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating dermatophytosis and bromhidrosis, which is prepared from radix sophorae flavescentis and peristrophe japonica, has synergistic interaction and anti-fungal effects, and is not easy to produce drug tolerance. After performing compatibility of extracts of matrine and peristrophe japonica, dermatophytosis and bromhidrosis can be treated, and multiple external preparations can be prepared.

The present invention relates generally to a composition or an oat extract comprising at least one avenanthramide compound or an analogue thereof and at least one β-glucan compound at predetermined ratios and having a low salt content. In addition, the present invention relates to a method for preparing such an oat extract, an oat extract obtained by said method, and the use of said composition or oat extract for the preparation of foods, food supplements, cosmetic, pharmaceutical or veterinary preparations. Finally, the present invention relates to foods, food supplements, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals or veterinary preparations comprising said composition or oat extract.

The present invention relates generally to: the cosmetic or pharmaceutical use of avenanthramide L or an oat extract comprising avenanthramide L; avenanthramide L or an oat extract comprising avenanthramide L as a neurokinin-1 receptor NK1R antagonist; and a method for preparing of preparing avenalumic acid and/or avenanthramide L.

A method for preparing a botanical extract includes extracting plant matter with ultrapure water, and separating the solid plant matter from the liquid fraction, concentrating the liquid fraction, and purifying the concentrated liquid fraction by tangential flow filtration.

A traditional Chinese medicine composition, and preparation method, and application thereof. The traditional Chinese medicine composition includes the following raw medicines in parts by weight: 10-35 parts of root of Chinese thorowax, 5-25 parts of immature bitter orange, 3-20 parts of fresh root and rhizome of sorrel rhubarb, 3-20 parts of root of baikal skullcap, 3-20 parts of white peony root, 3-15 parts of dried ginger, 5-20 parts of leech, 3-20 parts of root of ural licorice, 3-20 parts of root pilose asiabell, 3-20 parts of rhizome of largehead atractylodes, and 3-25 parts of tuber of pinellia. The traditional Chinese medicine composition has excellent effects in lowering blood lipids and cholesterol levels, particularly in lowering blood triglyceride. The traditional Chinese medicine composition also has excellent effects in slowing formation of atherosclerotic plaques, clearing the atherosclerotic plaques, and preventing and treating atherosclerosis.

The present invention relates to processes for preparing antioxidant liquid extracts and compositions and uses of such antioxidant liquid extracts and compositions. Also provided are novel antioxidant liquid extracts and compositions comprising astaxanthin. The antioxidant liquid extracts and compositions inter alia exhibit high antioxidant activity.

The present disclosure provides a method of producing a sesame oil meal extract having anti-colitis effect by ultrasonically extracting sesame oil meal using water as a solvent. The sesame oil meal extract according to the present disclosure has the effect of inhibiting weight loss, stool abnormalities, rectal bleeding, and a reduction in colon length, and inhibiting the expression of inflammation-mediated cytokines IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α, and thus a composition comprising the same as an active ingredient is a composition capable of preventing/improving or treating inflammatory diseases, particularly colitis diseases, and may be usefully used in various industrial fields such as pharmaceuticals or functional health foods.

Disclosed are a polysaccharide-peptide composite and a method of preparing the same. The polysaccharide-peptide composite is prepared from a bitter melon peptide (BMP) powder, gardenia fruit oil, a soybean polypeptide powder, an oat dietary fiber powder, a konjac powder, a corn silk, a mulberry leaf extract, a Poria cocos extract, a hawthorn extract, nutritional yeast and a pancreatin. The BMP powder is prepared by temperature-controlled hydrolysis, staged enzymatic hydrolysis and multiple filtrations. The gardenia fruit oil is prepared by staged enzymatic hydrolysis, multi-step centrifugation, filtration and stratification.

Method for improving skin condition with Redlove apples extract includes administering to a subject in need thereof a composition including an effective dose of the Redlove apples extract, wherein the Redlove apples extract was prepared by extracting Redlove apples (Malus pumila) with water at 80° C. to 90° C. for 45 min to 75 min.