Purification, Preliminary Characterization, and Immunological Activity of Polysaccharides from Crude Drugs of Sijunzi Formula

Table 2

Monosaccharide composition of polysaccharides Isolated form RS, BZ, FL, and GC.

	RS-3-1	RS-3-2	BZ-3-1	BZ-3-2	BZ-3-3	FL-3-1	GC-3-1
Rha (%)	10.6	—	14.1	2.6	—	0.8	1.3
Ara (%)	15.2	—	39.4	7.6	—	2.1	2.6
Fuc (%)	2.8	—	—	—	—	3.1	—
Xyl (%)	—	4.3	1.4	—	—	—	—
Man (%)	2.8	23.5	4.2	21.1	15.4	10.8	15.9
Glc (%)	52.9	72.2	22.6	62.6	84.6	71.7	76.9
Gal (%)	15.7	—	18.3	6.1	—	11.5	3.3

—: not detected; RS: Radix Ginseng, Ren Shen; BZ: Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Bai Zhu; FL: Poria, Fu Ling; GC: Radix Glycyrrhizae, Gan Cao.