White Willow Bark Extract:

Salicin is an alcoholic beta-glucoside. Salicin is produced in willow (salix)bark and acts as an anti-inflammatroy agent in the human body. Salicin is also commonly found in the bark of Populus species, and the leaves of willow and polars. It is also found in castoreum, which was used as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic. The activity of castoreum has been credited to the accumulation of salicin from willow trees in the beaver’s diet, which is transformed to salicylic acid and has an action very similar to aspirin. Salicin was the historical origin of aspirin and is chemically related to it.

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Functions:

• Salicin relieves pain and reduce fevers, including headache, back and neck pain,muscle aches, and menstrual cramps;
• Salicin has the function of treatment inflammation;
• Salicin helps to treat scabies,erysipelas, decayed tooth, swelling in the gum;
• Salicin is effective on dispelling wind-evil, increasing urine, reducing swelling;
• Salicin has the function of curing rheumatism, blennorrhagia, gonorrhea cloudy urine, pee atresia, epidemic hepatitis.

Applications:

White Willow Bark Extract is used to food additives and in cosmetics field, it owns the effect of whitening, dispelling spot, anti-wrinkle, activating skin cells, making skin more tender and firm.