On the Antioxidative Activities of Crude Drugs

Abstract

The antioxidative activities of water, ethanol and ether-soluble fractions from 24 Japanese pharmacopoiea crude drugs on methyl-linolenate were investigated in the comparison of BHA. The results indicated that the presence of strong antioxidative substances in the water-, ethanol-and ether-solble fractions obtained from both Caryophylli Flos and Glycyrrhizae Radix.