herbal extracts

Herbal extracts can be classified in many ways according to different purposes or requirements. For example, the different uses of traditional herbal extracts, can be divided into medicinal traditional Chinese medicine extracts, traditional Chinese medicine extracts for health products, traditional Chinese medicine extracts for food, traditional Chinese medicine extracts for veterinary use, traditional Chinese medicine extracts for daily chemical products, etc., and the following these categories:

1. Classification by group

According to the formula of herbal extracts, it can be divided into single herbal extracts and compound herbal extracts. Currently, single herbal extracts are widely used in the world. Due to the limitation of the application effect of single-plant extracts, compound herbal extracts have developed rapidly in the past two years. 

2. Classification by state

Herbal extracts have different water content (or solvent) and different forms. According to this, they can be divided into dry extracts (or solid extracts), liquid extracts (extracts), and so on.

3. Classification according to the degree of purification of herbal active substances

According to the degree of purification of active substances, it can be divided into effective extracts (or crude extracts), effective parts (which can be further divided into polysaccharides, flavonoids, anthracyclines, volatile oils, etc.), effective parts groups, active ingredients (or monomeric compounds).