1. Product Name: Perilla Seed Oil

2. Product Properties:

This product is a kind of light yellow clear and transparent oily liquid, without foreign flavor and slightly soluble in ethanol.

3 Physical and Chemical Standards

According to the Treatise on the Nature of Medicinal Herbs (Yao Xing Lun), Perilla frutescens is a medicinal plant that can be used to send down abnormally ascending qi, clear away phlegm, relieve asthma and moisturize the intestines, and treat diseases including wheezy phlegm, asthma, intestinal dryness and constipation. Perilla Seed Oil, made from Perilla frutescens seeds, is a sort of natural highly-unsaturated oil, containing 50-70% ¦Á-linolenic acid-an essential component, the highest among all current discovered natural vegetable oils. In addition, it also contains about 30% oleic acid, about 30% linoleic acid and about 5% other palmitic acids. Thus, it is a sort of natural vegetable source with very high biological activity.

Like ¦Ã-linolenic acid, ¦Á-linolenic acid is also an indispensable fatty acid to the human body and has many important functions on improving and accelerating human health:

5.1 Blood Pressure Reduction: tests have demonstrated that if ¦Á-linolenic acid in vivo increases 1%, the blood pressure can reduce 5mmHg;

5.2 Blood Fat Reduction: ¦Á-linolenic acid can reduce the cholesterol and glyceride contents in the blood and then reduce the blood sliminess;

5.3 Hematoblastic Aggregation Control and Thrombi Reduction;

5.4 Cancer Resistance: tests have proved that ¦Á-linolenic acid has definite inhibitory action on the growth and metabolism of breast cancer;

5.5 Nutrition: the nourishment supplied by 2.1g¦Á-linolenic acid equals that by 30g fish oil.

In addition, it also contains a little of such medicinal ingredients as rosmarinic acid, l-perillaldehyde and l-perillaalcohol, among which, the rosmarinic acid is remarkably effective on anti-inflammation.

6. Application Scope
This product can be used in drugs, foods and cosmetics.