TY - JOUR
T1 - Solubility enhancement of berberine–baicalin complex by the constituents of Gardenia Fruit
AU - Okoshi, Kazuki
AU - Uekusa, Yoshinori
AU - Narukawa, Yuji
AU - Kiuchi, Fumiyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Keio Gijuku Academic Development Funds.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy.
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - A Kampo prescription usually consists of several crude drugs and contains many kinds of compounds. Physicochemical interactions between the compounds may occur in the process of decoction, by which Kampo prescriptions are usually prepared for ingestion, and the interactions may change the extraction yields of the constituents. Berberine and baicalin have been reported to form precipitates. Orengedokuto, which consist of Coptis Rhizome, Gardenia Fruit, Phellodendron Bark and Scutellaria Root, has been a representative Kampo prescription used to treat inflammatory diseases. In our previous papers, we revealed that the precipitates formed in the decoction of orengedokuto without Gardenia Fruit mainly consists of berberine–baicalin complex and that Gardenia Fruit reduced the amount of the precipitates in orengedokuto decoction. In this report, through solubility-enhancement assay based on HPLC, we identified crocins as the constituents of Gardenia Fruits, which enhanced the solubility of berberine–baicalin complex. All-trans crocin-1 (1) and 13-cis crocin-1 (5) showed high activities among the isolated crocins, and the number of glucosyl groups in the molecule seemed correlated with the activity. As berberine and baicalin were reported as the anti-inflammatory constituents of Coptis Rhizome and Phellodendron Bark, and Scutellaria Root, respectively, Gardenia Fruit contributes anti-inflammatory activity of orengedokuto by increasing solubilities of anti-inflammatory constituents of the other component crude drugs in the prescription. Our result will add a scientific basis to the understanding of the effectiveness of orengedokuto as a whole.
AB - A Kampo prescription usually consists of several crude drugs and contains many kinds of compounds. Physicochemical interactions between the compounds may occur in the process of decoction, by which Kampo prescriptions are usually prepared for ingestion, and the interactions may change the extraction yields of the constituents. Berberine and baicalin have been reported to form precipitates. Orengedokuto, which consist of Coptis Rhizome, Gardenia Fruit, Phellodendron Bark and Scutellaria Root, has been a representative Kampo prescription used to treat inflammatory diseases. In our previous papers, we revealed that the precipitates formed in the decoction of orengedokuto without Gardenia Fruit mainly consists of berberine–baicalin complex and that Gardenia Fruit reduced the amount of the precipitates in orengedokuto decoction. In this report, through solubility-enhancement assay based on HPLC, we identified crocins as the constituents of Gardenia Fruits, which enhanced the solubility of berberine–baicalin complex. All-trans crocin-1 (1) and 13-cis crocin-1 (5) showed high activities among the isolated crocins, and the number of glucosyl groups in the molecule seemed correlated with the activity. As berberine and baicalin were reported as the anti-inflammatory constituents of Coptis Rhizome and Phellodendron Bark, and Scutellaria Root, respectively, Gardenia Fruit contributes anti-inflammatory activity of orengedokuto by increasing solubilities of anti-inflammatory constituents of the other component crude drugs in the prescription. Our result will add a scientific basis to the understanding of the effectiveness of orengedokuto as a whole.
KW - Berberine–baicalin complex
KW - Crocin
KW - Gardenia jasminoides
KW - Orengedokuto
KW - Solubility-enhancement
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U2 - 10.1007/s11418-020-01446-1
DO - 10.1007/s11418-020-01446-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 32857337
AN - SCOPUS:85089979873
SN - 1340-3443
VL - 75
SP - 76
EP - 83
JO - Journal of Natural Medicines
JF - Journal of Natural Medicines
IS - 1
ER -