Lucerne extracts, suitable for the selective reduction of blood lipid levels, and procedures for the manufacture of the same and medicinal products containing these products and for the selective reduction of blood lipid levels

摘要

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a selective blood-lipid-level-lowering pharmaceutical composition by extraction of the seed, root, stalk and/or leaves of alfalfa. According to the process of the invention, the extraction is carried out with water or an aqueous solution of a temperature of at least 40 degrees C. and a pH of at most 8, whereafter the extract obtained is transformed alone or together with hardly or not digestible polysaccharides and optionally with carriers commonly used in the pharmaceutical industry to a pharmaceutical composition. The composition according to the invention contains neither canavanine (being a toxic amino acid) nor coumestrol (possessing hormone effect).