Qualitative/Chemical Analyses of Ankaferd Hemostat and Its Antioxidant Content in Synthetic Gastric Fluids

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Antioxidant content of Ankaferd hemostat (ABS) detected by Time of Flight Mass Spectroscopy (TOF-MS). The complicating background noise due to the complex molecular library of ABS prevented the exact specifications of the molecules evaluated from the TOF-MS. Nevertheless, careful analyses on TOF-MS spectra exactly revealed the presence of some antioxidants such as tocotrienols, members of the vitamin E family, tryptophan, estriol, galangin, apigenin, oenin, 3,4-divanillyltetrahydrofuran, tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), thymol, BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene), lycopene, enoxolone/glycyrrhetinic acid or glycyrrhetic acid, and tomatine.