Product Name - Guggul Sterone Extract
Botanical Name - Commiphora mukul
Plant Part used - Oleo-Gum -Resin
Specification (Marker compound) -E &Z Guggulusterones (By HPLC) (2.5% by HPLC and 10% w/w by UV Spectophotometer
Description - Indian bdellium-tree produces a resinous sap known as gum Guggul has been a key component in ancient Indian Ayurvedic medicine. But it has become so scarce, because of its overuse, in its two habitats, India and Pakistan. The extract of this gum, called gugulipid, guggulipid or guglipid, has been used in Ayurvedic medicine & a traditional UNANI medicine, for nearly 3,000 years in India. The active ingredient in the extract is the steroid guggulsterone. Today guggul gum resin is used for arthritis, lowering high cholesterol, “hardening of the arteries” (atherosclerosis), acne and other skin diseases, and weight loss.

Guggul contains substances that lower cholesterol and triglycerides. One of these substances also decreases the redness and swelling that occurs in some types of acne.

Therapeutic Applications:

• Treating some types of acne. Guggul seems to work about as well as the antibiotic tetracycline in the treatment of nodulocystic acne. Both treatments decrease pain, swelling, and redness (inflammation), and the number of acne outbreaks.
• Lowers cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. Interestingly, guggul does seem to work in Indian populations, who eat an oily and fatty diet. Among this group, guggul seems to lower total cholesterol, “bad cholesterol” (LDL cholesterol), and other blood fats called triglycerides.
• Helps in treating Arthritis.
• Helps in Weight loss.