Terumo Corporation

Tadashi Sudo

Masaki Shimizu

Takeo Nomura

Hot-water extracts of the neem bark produced by treating the bark of neem with water at a temperature from 0.degree. to 40.degree. C. and subjecting the residue from said pre-extraction treatment to extraction treatment with hot water. Purification of the extract thus produced by means of alcohol precipitation or dialysis gives products of a higher purity. Moreover, treatments prior to the pre-extraction treatment with water at 0.degree.-40.degree. C. with a non-polar organic solvent having a dielectric constant of 10 or lower and a polar organic solvent having a dielectric constant from 15 to 35 yields neem extracts of a further higher purity. The hot-water extracts of the neem bark according to the present invention possess activity against mouse L-5178Y cells and transplanted sarcoma 180 tumors.

Hot-water extracts of neem bark

Neem bark extracts produced by pre-treating the bark of neem with an organic solvent having a dielectric constant of 10 or lower, for example, benzene or ethyl acetate and subjecting the residue obtained by the pre-treatment to extraction with a hydrophilic organic solvent having a dielectric constant from 15 to 35, for example, methanol or ethanol and recovering the neem bark extracts from the hydrophilic organic extraction solvent.

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