Pachymic Acid CAS NO.29070-92-6

Our Poria Cocos extract holds 3- 5% pachymic acid purity through an unique extraction and purification technology. Regular poria cocos extract in the market is usually just simply extracted in ratio.

Poria cocos has been used for a history of several thousand years as a traditional Chinese medicine and it has been made into kinds of delicious food in our daily life, such as Poria Cake, a traditional food in Beijing, popular for kids and adults.

Pachymic acid is a lanostane-type triterpenoid derived from the Poria cocos mushroom. Several beneficial biological features of Pachymic acid provide medicine with a wide variety of valuable effects, such as anticancer and anti-inflammatory activity; it also has antioxidant effects against oxidative stress. It is reported that pachymic acid inhibits tumorigenesis in gallbladder carcinoma cells and it may be a potential chemotherapeutic agent for the control of human bladder cancer cells and so on.