METHOD OF PRODUCING AGARICUS BLAZEI MURILL EXTRACT HAVING HIGH ANTITUMOR ACTIVITY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of efficiently producing Agaricus blazei Murill extract which is safe and has a high antitumor activity, and to obtain a composition allowing industrially useful use of the extract. ;SOLUTION: This method of efficiently producing Agaricus blazei Murill extract comprises the following steps: subjecting Agaricus blazei Murill to extraction under pressure, preferably at 1 to 5 atm in an aqueous solvent preferably water or a hydrous alcohol, further preferably under heating; and fractionating the thus obtained extract using 50% ethanol to collect the resultant precipitate. The other objective edible composition is obtained by formulating this Agaricus blazei Murill extract.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO