摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dry brown alga product as a functional food material having possibility to mitigate inflammation accompanied by allergic symptoms or the like. <P>SOLUTION: This anti-allergic substance is characterized by containing, as a main ingredient, a compound obtained by extracting Eisenia arborea with chloroform-alcohol. The method for extracting the anti-allergic substance comprises defatting dry Eisenia arborea powder with hexane, immersing the residue in hexane-ethyl acetate mixture to remove pigments and fats, filtering to recover the defatted Eisenia arborea powder, immersing the powder in a chloroform-alcohol mixture, filtering, and sequentially dissolving ingredients in the filtrate with water and then with diethyl ether to obtain a diethyl ether dried solid substance. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |