Screening of medicinal plants for development of functional food ingredients with anti-obesity = 항비만 기능성 식품소재 개발을 위한 생약 추출물의 탐색

Abstract

In order to search anti-obesity agents, the methanol extracts of 155 herbal medicines were screened using with pancreatic lipase, which is involved in conversion of triglycerol to fatty acid. Among the tested medicinal plants, methanol extracts of Amsonia elliptica, Arecae pericarpium, Biota orientalis, Cinnamomum cassia, Curcuma aromatia, Elsholtzia ciliate, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Mucunae Caulis, Rhus javanica, and Rubus coreanus showed potent inhibition at final concentration of 200 ㎍/ml on pancreatic lipase activity. All of them were extracted into chloroform fraction.