MELILOT

Profile

  • Latin Name: Melilotus officinalis
  • CAS No.: 8023-73-2
  • Active Ingredient: Cumarine
  • Specifications: 1% – 17%
  • Test Method: HPLC
  • Part used: Leaves
  • Appearance: Fine brownish powder

Description

Melilot (scientific name Melilotus officinalis) is also commonly known as cabbage grass or yellow cabbage. It is part of the Fabaceae family, and is a biennial herbaceous plant very widespread in arid and uncultivated land, and is often found along roads and paths. The fruit is a greenish-black pod. The leaves and flowering tops have a good concentration of flavonoids, tannins and coumarins: among the latter, in particular, melilotoside (a coumarin glucoside which then transforms into coumarin), which promotes lymphatic drainage.

Benefits

  • Promotes lymphatic drainage
  • Vasoprotective action
  • Anti-inflammatory
  • Slightly sedative
  • Antispasmodic
  • Cicatrizing
  • Diuretic