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Soapberry (Wu Huan Zi) East to West
In the United State, Soapberry may have less research and use, it might be because the original soapberry in the United State are small (picture's right) compared to Chinese soapberry in Asian (picture's left), therefore the effects may various and less aware by the scientists. Actually soapberry has used over two thousands years long in China and India and has written records. Soapberry had already performed the innumerable human body experiments for long time ago. Until the recent years, the chemicals are heavily invented as well as heavily being use and spreads everywhere in the societies. Soapberry since then in most of the countries had eventually disappeared.
Bring back the nature, give up the chemical issues.
Common Detergent harm the environment: Nonylphenol Polyethoxylates
The nonyl phenol class non-ionic surface active agent (Nonylphenol Polyethoxylates, is called NPEO)” the synthesized chemical substance, is widely used in the laundry powder and the utensil cleanser, The NPEO metabolite like nonyl phenol (Nonylphenol is called NP) and the correlation residual chemical substance (e.g. Nonylphenol Polyethoxy Carboxylates, is called NPEC). Which has been proved that it affects reproductive system and the biology hormone of natural environment, the pollution spread the world everywhere including rivers. European Union country had prohibited completely since 2001, but some countries such as America, Japan, Taiwan still continually using it.
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New born Western Soapberry (left 2 days) & New born Chinese Soapberry (right 2 days)
Chinese Soapberry Growth real fast (right 5 days) Western Soapberry (left 5 days)
Soapberry Fruit chemical composition, function, side effect and toxicity
Soapberry fruit contain Saponin (Sapindoside A, B, C, D, E), its origin
genin is hederagenin, Shang Han Yun shang genin and massive Vitamin C,
tyrosine (tyrosine), glycine (Glycine), alanin (alanine), fructose,
glucose, pentose, methylpentose, pectin sugar and mouse Li Tang and so
on.
Soapberry fruit the most important ingredient is the saponin. Many
plants can produce the soap, but each kind of plant lives the soap to
have the difference respectively, for example the ginseng will produce
the ginseng soap, the tea has the tea soap, the tea and the ginseng
soap was considered that will have against cancer function.
Soapberry seeds contains oil that reaches 42.3%, may extract oil,
includes each kind of higher fatty acid, also contains: Palmitic
4.0％、Stearic 0.2％、arachidic 4.4％、Oleic 62.8％、linoleic 4.6％、linolenic
1.6％、eicosenoic 22.4％。
Function
1. Change water surface tension, function similar soap, therefore in the agriculture is also used for the spreader.
2. Emulsified oil: Takes drop of vegetable oil on the dish of food,
adds on one drop of soapberry extract, rubs thoroughly by the fingers,
then detected both turns into un-transparent emulsification, which
causes the oily surface to become non-oily.
3. Improve other medicine absorption: The animal experiment proof,
soapberry fruit extract pour into the animal large intestine with some
kind of antibiotic mix, the animal antibiotic absorption rate must
compared to pour into the antibiotic absorption rate regarding this to
want high purely on many, this is possibly because Saponin changed
cell's permeability, which causes the 3rd party plant the chemical
substance change penetration, can urge each kind of skin medication or
the cosmetology maintenance, more effective seepage to skin in-depth,
then display bigger curative effect. The American band cosmetic and
skin product “Jealous” comments specially saying that has used the
saponin achievement “the carrier”, while reduces the medicine density,
reduced side effect largely and strengthened the drug efficacy.
Toxicity
In organism makes Saponin to have its special significance, by the
human viewpoint, has the possibility is for the imperial enemy, also
has the possibility is for self-uses and so on repair,
anti-inflammation.
Demonstrated according to the literature and the experience that
Saponin regarding viral, the bacterium, the mold, the protozoan, the
gastropods, many kinds of insects and the vertebra cold-blooded animal
really has sufficiently the lethal toxicity, therefore may concentrate
by the extract treats as one kind of insect disinfestations, the
sterilization, the poisonous spiral, the person carcasses vermifuge
use, regarding the warm blood vertebrate, (must refers to highly
saponin of crystallization powder purification) after the
gastro-intestinal tract edible plant original body, does not have the
toxicity, but the saponin content high plant will be felt the animal
tongue taste bud bitter and astringent, or stimulation of the
gastro-intestinal tract, will thus not dare to eat, this will also be
the plant to strive for the survival road of the self-preservation.
Purifies Thea Saponin medicinal powder LD50 of big mouse (SD)
After mouth LD50 4466.8mg/kg
After skin LD50 10000mg/kg, to mammalia animal non-toxic
Mountain walker, islander, may pick the food by way of the wild animal
or not to judge this fruit to be whether virulent, whether edible. In
the nature, soapberry is precisely the fruit which the squirrel, the
flying squirrel and the monkey likes eating, obviously its toxic it “is
small”, soapberry is also one kind of human and animals general
intestinal tract vermifuge (sees appendix 2). Is addicted to wild
animal which the food soapberry on island after tens of thousands of
years (or long) still multiplication without disappear, this also
sufficiently evidence soapberry regarding with for the mammal's
security of humanity, more beneficial its health. Recent years the
soapberry tree several near disappeared extinguished place in some
person of smoke, is short soapberry this kind of foods with Chinese
medicines mixed in food, perhaps wild animals for intestines in
parasite institute painstakingly!
Saponin (Saponin) characteristic
Saponin structure
Of molecular structure the Saponin has the both sides, an end for sparse water fat groups and bases, another end for structure sugar, structure sour water affinity groups and bases. The structure acid by counter- (Tran Cis-1, 2-dimethylacrylic acid) and the acetic acid is composed (along) the angelic acid; The structure sugar is by the grapes glucuronic acid (Glucuronic acid), the pectin sugar (Arabinose), the xylose (Xylose), the galactose (Galactose), mouse Li Tang and other pentose is composed.
Melts the structure according to be possible to divide into 3 soap (connected and the steroid body soap (steroid body passes carbon oxygen key and sugar chain by Three Contacts carbon oxygen key and sugar chain) connected) two broad headings.
In 3 soap divides five link 3 soap and four link 3 soap, but take five links 3 as common. In five link 3 soap does for medicinal purposes the alkane (Oleanolanetype) distributes by Qi Dunguo broadly, the research are most; In four link 3rd soap reaches Ma Wanxing (Dammaranetype) the soap research to be many, to be thorough. In the steroid body soap divides into (Spirostanols type) the soap and the mouth furane steroid (Furosianclstype) the soap, is remarkable by the spiral steroid soap biological activity. Because these soap 3rd or on the steroid body the substituting group is different, links the sugar the type sum goal to be different, sugar chain how many different, but the physiological action has the difference or the strong and the weak division. Progresses along with the soap chemical research, each kind of soap's biological activity and for medicinal purposes value are also taken to carry on the research. In particular has formed the hot spot to some famous Chinese medicine's soap research.
Decontamination strength
Saponin (soapberry) cleaning power is 25.17Standard chemical cleaner's cleaning power is 27.4%,
First, Thea Saponin compares with the lauryl benzene sulfonic acid sodium
Generally the decontamination strength's determination is receives measured material decontamination ability with “lauryl benzene sulfonic acid sodium” standard flour (0.20% solution) the decontamination works hard to devote oneself to a comparison. Thea Saponin is the tea young extract, nature and Thea Saponin the Soapberry Saponin is close.
1. Standard dirt clothe albedo (whitening degree) determination
Takes two standard dirt cloths, on the albedo cryoscope to each dirty cloth's ten different positions measured separately its albedo value, then takes its mean value to make this dirt cloth the average albedo, the determination result is as follows:
2. Decontaminations, dirt clothe albedo determination
3. Decontamination strength computation
Decontamination strength (%) = 100%
According to this formula computation decontamination strength (plain white cloth albedo value according to 76 computations)
1# decontamination strength (%) = ×100%=25.7%
2＃decontamination strength (％) ＝×100％＝24.5％
The 1#2# average decontamination strength is 25.1%
Compare to the lauryl benzene sulfonic acid sodium (standard cleaner) with the same method test, which the decontamination strength is 27.4%. Thea Saponin decontamination strength 25.1％. The lauryl benzene sulfonic acid sodium standard flour's decontamination strength is close proved that it has the good wash function.
Soon will exhaust and factors and so on environmental protection health based on the petroleum, the photochemistry cleanser product sooner or later will be abandoned, has the fine clearing power plant saponin comprehensive substitution synthesized cleanser only will be the time question. If we can the planed to growth soapberry plant in the US and have them massive production, compare to the oil interests product, soapberry costs should be lower that has its real economic competitive power.
(Provide by Dr Wang Quan Guang, Taiwan University medicine bachelor)
(Source: Soapberry Research Study. By Yuk Ching,New York, Soapberry.Org)
(Translate by Yuk Ching, New York, Soapberry.org)