EXTRACT FROM PLANT OF JAPANESE PARSLEY FAMILY AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

摘要

An extract obtained by extracting a plant of the Japanese parsley family or treatment product thereof with an aqueous alcohol; a process for producing the extract; a therapeutic agent or preventive for diabetic complications and/or diseases accompanied by inflection of insulin level or insulin response, characterized by containing the above extract as an active ingredient; an insulin-like acting agent characterized by containing the above extract as an active ingredient; a food, drink or feed characterized by containing the above extract; a promoter of glucose intake in cells characterized by containing the above extract as an active ingredient; a differentiation inducer to fat cells characterized by containing the above extract as an active ingredient; and an aldose reductase inhibitor characterized by containing the above extract as an active ingredient.