When the root of Abelmoschus manihot, MEDIC is stored in the water, the mucilage is extracted. The mucilage has contained some of free reducing sugars.
We have investigated the change of free reducing sugars by the Bertrand method and also free reducing sugars are detected by paper chromatography and thin layer chromatography.
The mucilage is isolated from the root of Abelmoschus manihot, MEDIC and its chemical components are detected.
The mucilage and hydrolyzed products are examined by paper chromatography, thin layer chromatography and tested carbohydrates under the usual way. The results are as follow:
1. The mucilage has contained five kinds of monosaccharides which are rhamnose, xylose, arabinose, glucose, galactose and other three kinds of uronic acids.
2. In the mucilage, glucose is the most changeable sugar and the next are arabinase and galactose.
3. Uronic acids, pylose and rhamnose are remaired comparatively longer than glucose, galactose and arabinose in the mucilage.
4. The hydrolyzed products of mucilage consisted of rhamnose, xylose, arabinose, glucose, gelactose, ribose, some uronic acids and other unknown compounds.
The essence of mucilage isolated from the root of Abelmoschus manihot, MEDIC is complex saccharide, glucose and ribose are newly certified.
6. We can guess that the components of the mucilage are rhamnose, xylose, arabinose, glucose, ribose, uronic acids and other unknown compounds.
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