Ashwagandha India

Ashwagandha

Ashwagandha plant is a member of the Solanaceae family and has over 4,000 years of traditional use in its native India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It is a Medharasayan which is the Ayurvedic category of foods and nutrients that promote learning and memory retrieval. This plant is a Tonic and an Adaptogen. In the Middle East it is used to help promote normal sleep patterns and encourage a healthy inflammatory response.

Sunpure Ashwagandha is a powerful adaptogen derived from the roots of the Withania somnifera plant to provide optimal efficacy and bioactive diversity. The proprietary blend has been studied in numerous human clinical and pre-clinical trials to support its efficacy. Sunpure’s ashwagandha has excellent applications in supplements, foods, beverages, and personal care products.

Botanical Name: Withania somnifera
Common Name: Ashwagandha
Plant part used for extraction: Dried Roots only
Description: Greenish to yellowish brown coloured hygroscopic powder

Chemical constituents

The main constituents of Aswagandha are alkaloids and steroidal lactones. Among the various alkaloids, withanine is the main constituent. The other alkaloids are somniferine, somnine, somniferinine, withananine, pseudo - withanine, tropine, pseudo - tropine, 3-a-gloyloxytropane, choline, cuscohygrine, isopelletierine, anaferine and anahydrine. Two acyl steryl glucoside viz. sitoindoside VII and sitoindoside VIII have been isolated from root. The roots, contain steroidal lactones, which are commonly called withanolides. The withanolides have C28 steroidal nucleus with C9 side chain, having six membered lactone rings.