Black Cohosh Constituents: "Isoferulic acids, resins containing 15% to 20% cimicifugin including cimigenol and the usual tannins, sugars, and so forth. Still lacking specific constituent analysis for our species. Roots contain more estrogenoid effects." Ref. B p.77, "Resins and salicylic acid, both acting as anti-rheumatiac agents; isoferulic acid; phytosterols; alkaloids; tannic acid; 3 unidentified crystalline alcohols. (A resinoid impure mixture, cimicifugin, is produced by adding tincture of cimicifuga to water.)" Ref. D p. 174. |