Composition and Antiinflammatory Activity of Polysaccharide Complexes Extracted from Sweet Violet and Low Mallow

Water-soluble polysaccharides extracted from the grass of sweet violet (Viola odorata L.) and low mallow (Malva pusilla Smith) include glucose, galactose, arabinose, rhamnose, xylose, and glucuronic and galacturonic acids. The results of tests on experimental animals showed that the polysaccharide complexes from both medicinal plants studied possess antiinflammatory activity, which is manifested by suppression of the exudation and proliferation stages of inflammation and by a change in the capillary permeability. __________ Translated from Khimiko-Farmatsevticheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 29 – 32, April, 2005.