Product Name - Gurmar Extract
Botanical Name - Gymnema sylvestre
Plant Part used - Leaf
Specification (Marker compound) -Gymnemic acids (25% - 75%)
Description - Gymnema Sylvestre is an herb native to the tropical forests of southern and central India. Chewing the leaves suppresses the sensation of sweet. This effect is attributed to the presence of the eponymously named gymnemic acids. The plant is stomachic stimulant, laxative, diuretic and useful in cough. The leaves of the plant, when chewed possess the remarkable property of paralysing the sense of taste for sweet and bitter substance for some time. The leaves are used as a remedy for diabetes.

Gymnema Sylvestre leaves contain triterpene saponins. Oleanane saponins are gymnemic acids and gymnemasaponins, while dammarene saponins are gymnemasides. Besides this, other plant constituents are flavones, anthraquinones, hentriacontane, pentatriacontane, α and β-chlorophylls, phytin, resins, d-quercitol, tartaric acid, formic acid, butyric acid, lupeol, β-amyrin-related glycosides and stigmasterol. The plant extract also tests positive for alkaloids. Leaves of this species yield acidic glycosides and anthroquinones and their derivatives.
Therapeutic Applications:

• Gymnemic acids has an anti-diabetic property.
• It has an inhibitory effect on plasma glucose and serum insulin.
• Greenish brown powder with bitter taste.