Osthole
Botanical Resource: Cnidium monnieri (L.)Cuss.
Properties:30% 50% yellowish fine powder,95% white powder.
Specification:30%,50%,95% HPLC
Synonyms: 7-Methoxy-8-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-2H-1-benzopyran-2-one
Brief Introduction:
Osthole - also spelled osthol - is a type of coumarin. Osthole is found in cnidium monnieri and several other plants. Osthol could increase androgen, gonadotropin and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity.
Osthole is a libido stimulator: researchers investigate the cavernosal relaxant effect of osthole, has been long used in China as a herbal medicine to improve male sexual dysfunction. The data suggested that osthole posseses a relaxant effect on rabbit corpus cavernosal tissues which is attributable to the release of NO from sinusoidal endothelium and to the potentiation of the cGMP and/or cAMP signal mediating relaxation of cavernosal smooth muscle by inhibiting phosphodiesterase".