Gotu Kola extract

About Gotu Kola extract

  Gotu Kola
It has long-stalked, green, reniform leaves with rounded apices which have smooth texture with palmately netted veins. The leaves are borne on pericladial petioles, around 20 cm. The rootstock consists of rhizomes, growing vertically down. They are creamish in color and covered with root hairs.
The flowers are pinkish to red in color, born in small, rounded bunches (umbels) near the surface of the soil. Each flower is partly enclosed in two green bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are minute in size (less than 3 mm), with 5-6 corolla lobes per flower. Each flower bears five stamens and two styles. The fruit are densely reticulate, distinguishing it from species of Hydrocotyle which have smooth, ribbed or warty fruit.
The crop matures in three months and the whole plant, including the roots, is harvested manually.
Specification:
Product name
 Gotu Kola 70% extract
 
Item
 Specification
 
Appearance
 Light yellow powder
 
TCL
 Conform
 
Loss on drying
 5% Max.
 
Heave metals
 10 ppm Max.
 
Sulfated ash
 1.0% Max.
 
Assay (by HPLC)
 Total triterpenes 70%
(Asiaticoside & Madecassoside 70%)
 
Granule size
 98% pass 100 mesh
 
Total bacteria count
 1000 cfu/g Max.
 
Yeast & Moulds
 100 cfu/g Max.
 
E-Coli
 Negative
 
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
 Negative
 
Staphylococcus aureus
 Negative