Diosgenin

Diosgenin (CAS NO.512-04-9) is an important basic raw material for producing steroid hormones or steroidal sapogenin drugs. Steroid hormones have strong anti-infection, anti-allergic, anti-viral, and anti-shock pharmacological effects, and are important drugs for the treatment of rheumatism, cardiovascular, lymphatic leukemia, cellular encephalitis, skin diseases, anti-tumor, and rescue of critically ill patients; It is the raw material of an important steroid hormone drug intermediate gestation dienolone acetate. From it, various steroid drugs such as hydrocortisone, norethindrone, etc.


Chinese Wild Yam Diosgenin occupies 98% of the market share of steroid pharmaceutical raw materials in the world. The saponin extracted from Dioscorea zingiberensis is an important basic raw material for the synthesis of hormones in the pharmaceutical industry, and wild yam liquid extract can be synthesized and processed based on it. Such as dienes, Worth oxide, and other intermediate API products and progesterone, budesonide, methyltestosterone, cyproterone, androstenone, dehydroepiandrosterone, and other hormone products