Pharmacological effects
Geniposide, also known as Gardenia glycosides, geniposide. It is a brown to white crystalline powder, with little flavor and no bitter taste, a cycloolefin ether glycoside compound extracted from the dry and ripe fruit of Rubiaceae Gardenia. Geniposide has a significant role in promoting bile secretion, and can reduce blood bilirubin, as well as promote rapid excretion of bilirubin in the blood. It has an inhibitory effect on Streptococcus hemolyticus and skin fungi. It also has antipyretic, analgesic, sedative, antihypertensive and hemostatic effects. Geniposide has the function of purging pathogenic fire and eliminating restlessness, clearing heat and eliminating damp, decreasing swellinging to relieving pain. The Indications of Geniposide are heat disease, dysphoria, coma delirium, jaundice, heat stranguria, heat in blood, swelling and pain of eye, pathopyretic ulcer, and sprain.
General Description
This substance is a primary reference substance with assigned absolute purity (considering chromatographic purity, water, residual solvents, inorganic impurities). The exact value can be found on the certificate. Produced by PhytoLab GmbH & Co. KG
Biochem/physiol Actions
Geniposide is an iridoid glycoside with a variety of biological activities including neuroprotective, anti-diabetic, antiproliferative, and antioxidative activity. Geniposide has been shown to regulate Nrf2 translocation and upregulate downstream antioxidant protein HO-1 expression through the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway, which may account for its neuroprotective and antioxidative activity. Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor may also play a critical role in geniposide induced HO-1 expression.
