Chondroitin sulfate is a kind of acid mucopolysaccharide extracted from healthy domestic animal cartilage or shark cartilage. It is mainly composed of chondroitin sulfate A, C and other types of chondroitin sulfate. It widely exists in animal’s cartilage, hyoid bone, and nasal throat, and also in the bone-tendon, ligament, skin, cornea and other tissues. The main existence of Chondroitin sulfate is sodium chondroitin sulfate.
Application of Chondroitin Sulfate
1. Used as medicine’s raw material, it can promote the synthesis of mucopolysaccharides, advance the viscosity of synovia, and improve the metabolism of arthrodial cartilage with evident effect of relieving inflammation and easing the pain.
2. Used as a nutritive food of diabetes, it can cure enteritis instead of cortisol and has some curative effect on rheumatoid arthritis and hepatitis.
3. Used in cosmetic feed and food additive industry.
