Southern Schisandra Fruit Powder
DEFINITION
Southern Schisandra Fruit Powder consists of the dried ripe fruit of Schisandra sphenanthera Rehder & E.H.Wilson (Fam. Schisandraceae), reduced to a fine powder. It contains NLT 1.0% of lignans calculated as the sum of schisantherin A (C30H32O9), schisantherin B (C28H34O9), schisantherin C (C28H34O9), and deoxyschisandrin (also known as schisandrin A; C24H32O6) on the anhydrous basis.
USP REFERENCE STANDARDS FOR PURCHASE
USP Schisandra sphenanthera Fruit Dry Extract RSUSP Schisandrin RS
